| Mrs. D. P. Sanford - 1884 - 282 pages
...Boy Blue, and said the rhyme for her. You know it, I dare say : — " Lit-tle Boy Blue, come blow up your horn ; The sheep's in the meadow, the cow's in the corn. Where is the boy that tends the sheep? Un-der the hay-stack, fast a-sleep." Jane said it in a way that made Bell... | |
| Nicholas St Nicholas, St. Nicholas - History - 1886 - 322 pages
...either the silliest man, Or the wisest, in Birtleby-town. LITTLE BOY BLUE. "LITTLE BOY BLUE, COME BLOW YOUR HORN, THE SHEEP'S IN THE MEADOW, THE COW'S IN THE CORN!" FAR down in the valley the wheat grows deep, And the reapers are making the cradles sweep ; And this... | |
| 1894 - 926 pages
...doubted her ears. "Haven't you heard about him?" she said. "Don't you know, ' Little Boy Blue, come blow your horn. The sheep's in the meadow, the cow's in the corn ' ? " " No," said Rosie. " I never heard about him, ma'am." She had lived six years, three of them... | |
| Eben Harlow Davis - Readers - 1889 - 166 pages
...everything one could wish. Oh ! the city is the place for me. LESSON CXXXVI. Little boy blue, Come blow your horn ; The sheep's in the meadow, The cow's in the corn. So this is the way You mind your sheep, Under the hay-rick Fast asleep. Fie on you ! fie on you ! Little... | |
| George MacDonald - English fiction - 1890 - 396 pages
...course it is — for this one went ' blowing his horn and beating his drum.' He had a drum too. Little Boy Blue, come blow me your horn; The sheep's in the meadow, the cow's in the corn. He had to keep them out, you know. But he wasn't minding his work. It goes — Where's the little boy... | |
| Frances Hodgson Burnett - American fiction - 1892 - 234 pages
...most celebrated persons in the world. Who do you suppose ever forgets — " Little boy blue, come blow your horn, The sheep's in the meadow, the cow's in the corn. Is that the way to mind your sheep, Under the haystack fast asleep ? " How the Socialist laughed and... | |
| Charles Eliot Norton, Kate Stephens - Anthologies - 1893 - 104 pages
...five eggs in it, They all took one and left four in it. LITTLE BOY BLUE. Little Boy Blue, come blow your horn, The sheep's in the meadow, the cow's in the corn ; What ! is this the way you mind your sheep, Under the hay-cock, fast asleep ? LITTLE BO-PEEP. Little... | |
| Rosa Nouchette Carey - 1895 - 50 pages
...to him, was asleep too. Then the spirit of mischief entered into me, and I chanted loudly : " Little Boy Blue, come blow me your horn ; The sheep's in the meadow, the cow's in the corn. Where is the boy that looks after the sheep ? Under the haystack, fast asleep ! " Oh, how he started ! There was... | |
| Grace Little Rhys - Children - 1895 - 114 pages
...collar, and gold in the hem, So merrily march the merchant men. '. II TLITTLE Boy Blue, come blow up your horn, The sheep's in the meadow, the cow's in the corn -, But where is the boy that looks after the sheep ? He's under a haycock, fast asleep. Will you awake... | |
| Edward Pearson Moses - Readers - 1895 - 116 pages
...a fool, Drove her children to school — This little old woman in Surry. Little Boy Blue, come blow your horn ; The sheep's in the meadow, the cow's in the corn. Where's the little boy that looks after the sheep? He's under the haycock, fast asleep. Will you wake... | |
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