 | Martin Gardner - Literary Collections - 1995 - 212 pages
...don't know if this refers to the poem or to a hook containing the poem. The Grumhling Old Woman There was an old woman, and — what do you think? — She lived upon nothing hut victuals and drink! But though victuals and drink were the chief of her diet, Yet this grumhling... | |
 | Mike Royston - Education - 1998 - 246 pages
...short, it was the moral of the old nursery fable: There was an old woman, and what do you think? 65 She lived upon nothing but victuals and drink; Victuals and drink were the whole of her diet, And yet this old woman would NEVER be quiet. ® from The Road to Wigan Pier (1 937)... | |
 | Jackie Silberg - Education - 2002 - 516 pages
...50ngs. Poems, FingerpUys. and Chants • • Cats There Was an Old Woroan, and Do You Think? There was an old woman, and what do you think? She lived...drink; Victuals and drink were the chief of her diet, And yet this old woman could never keep quiet. There Woman (lived under some stairs} There was an old... | |
 | Paul A. Olson - Education - 2002 - 398 pages
...eternally dissatisfied and unmanageable. In shorr, it was the moral of the old nursery fable: There was an old woman, and what do you think) She lived...but victuals and drink; Victuals and drink were the whole of her die1. And vet this old woman would NEvER be quiet.4" l, ' ltimateIv the myth of the worker... | |
 | David Booth, Bob Barton - Children's poetry - 2003 - 114 pages
...fear, She'd nothing to ask, And nothing to give, And when she did die She'd nothing to leave. There was an old woman, and what do you think? She lived...drink: Victuals and drink were the chief of her diet; And yet this old woman could never keep quiet. She went to the baker, to buy her some bread, And when... | |
 | Jeffrey Wainwright - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 248 pages
...dints. two-stress lines (dimeters) but with lengths varying between six, five and four syllables: There was an old woman And what do you think? She lived...nothing But victuals and drink Victuals and drink. Similarly these lines each have four stresses, making them tetrameters, but again with lengths varying... | |
 | Charles Dickens - Fiction - 2004 - 1354 pages
...eternally dissatisfied and unmanageable. In short it was the moral of the old nursery fable: There was an old woman, and what do you think? She lived...but victuals and drink; Victuals and drink were the whole of her diet, And yet this old woman would never be quiet. Is it possible, I wonder, that there... | |
 | Catherine Anderson - Fiction - 2006 - 438 pages
...away for later. One of his barnyard cats had recently given birth to a litter of kittens. " 'There was an old woman. And what do you think? She lived upon nothing, but victuals and drink. And though victuals and drink were the whole of her diet, this naughty old woman would never keep quiet.'"... | |
 | Juvenile Nonfiction - 2007 - 130 pages
...give you a slice of bacon; And when I bake, I'll give you a cake, If I am not mistaken. Ar> 0*4 There was an old woman, and what do you think? She lived...drink. Victuals and drink were the chief of her diet, And yet this old woman could never keep quiet. Boys and (Srirf $ What are little boys made of, made... | |
 | William Roetzheim - Juvenile Fiction - 2007 - 808 pages
...again. If your heels are nimble and light, You may get there by candle-light. A STRANGE OLD WOMAN There was an old woman, and what do you think? She lived...drink; Victuals and drink were the chief of her diet, And yet this old woman could never be quiet. SLEEP, BABY, SLEEP Sleep, baby, sleep, Our cottage vale... | |
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There was an old woman, and what do you think? She lived upon nothing but victuals and drink; Victuals and drink were the whole of her diet, And yet this old woman would never be quiet. 
