 And ere three shrill notes the pipe uttered, You heard as if an army muttered; And the muttering grew to a grumbling; And the grumbling grew to a mighty rumbling; And out of the houses the rats came tumbling. Great rats, small rats, lean rats, brawny...  Punch - Page 2511849Full view - About this book
 | Coventry Patmore - Children's poetry, English - 1882 - 376 pages
...grumbling ; And the grumbling grew to a mighty rumbling ; And out of the houses the rats came tumbling — Great rats, small rats, lean rats, brawny rats. Brown...Cocking tails, and pricking whiskers, Families by tens and dozens, Brothers, sisters, husbands, wives — Followed the Piper for their lives. From street... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1882 - 328 pages
...grumbling ; And the grumbling grew to a mighty rumbling ; And out of the houses the rats came tumbling. Great rats, small rats, lean rats, brawny rats, Brown...uncles, cousins, Cocking tails and pricking whiskers, Hrothers, sisters, husbands, wives — Followed the Piper for their lives. From street to street he... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1882 - 984 pages
...grumbling; And the grumbling grew to a mighty rumbling; And out of the houses the rats came tumbling. Great rats, small rats, lean rats, brawny rats, Brown...friskers, Fathers, mothers, uncles, cousins. Cocking tails ami pricking whiskers: Families by tens and dozens, Brothers, sisters, husbands, wives — Followed... | |
 | Charles Anderson Dana - American poetry - 1882 - 906 pages
...grumbling ; And the grumbling grew to a mighty rumbling ; And out of the houses the rats came tumbling. Great rats, small rats, lean rats, brawny rats, Brown rats, black rats, gray rats, tawiiy rats, Grave old plodders, gay young friskers, Fathers, mothers, uncles, cousins,... | |
 | Ascott Robert Hope Moncrieff - 1883 - 406 pages
...small monkeys, lean monkeys, brawny monkeys, Brown monkeys, black monkeys, grey monkeys, tawny monkeys, Grave old plodders, gay young friskers ; Fathers,...Cocking tails and pricking whiskers ; Families by tens and dozens." The disgusting wretches flocked about us grinning, screaming, and rolling on the ground,... | |
 | Thomas W. Handford - Recitations, American - 1881 - 438 pages
..., And the grumbling grew to a mighty rumbling ; ' And out of the houses the rats came tumbling — Great rats, small rats, lean rats, brawny rats, Brown rats, black rats, gray rats, tawny rats, Grave old plodders, gay young friskers, Fathers, mothers, uncles, cousins, Cocking... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1883 - 308 pages
...grumbling ; And the grumbling grew to a mighty rumbling ; And out of the houses the rats came tumbling. Great rats, small rats, lean rats, brawny rats, Brown rats, black rats, gray rats, tawny rats, Grave old plodders, gay young friskers, Families by tens and dozens, Brothers,... | |
 | George Walter Baynham - 1883 - 416 pages
...grumbling; and the grumbling grew to a mighty rumbling; and out of the house the rats came tumbling. Great rats, small rats, lean rats, brawny rats, brown rats, black rats, gray rats, tawny rats, grave old plodders, gay young friskers. Fathers, mothers, uncles, cousins, cocking... | |
 | Recitations - 1884 - 780 pages
...rats came tumbling — Great rats, small rats, lean rats, brawny rats, Brown rats, black rate, gray rats, tawny rats, Grave old plodders, gay young friskers,...Cocking tails, and pricking whiskers, Families by tens and dozens, Brothers, sisters, husbands, wives — Followed the Piper for their lives. From street... | |
 | Anne Coulter Martens - Children's plays - 1969 - 92 pages
...Alisa must be with him. MRS. BRAUN Let's look for them. (They go out R. ) GRANNY (half to herself). Great rats, small rats, lean rats, brawny rats, Brown rats, black rats, gray rats, tawny rats . . . Brothers, sisters, husbands, wives, Follow the Piper for their lives !... | |
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