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" There was a man in our town, And he was wondrous wise, He jumped into a bramble bush And scratched out both his eyes. And when he saw his eyes were out, With all his might and main He jumped into another bush And scratched them in again. "
The Beginners Reading-book - Page 78
by Eben Harlow Davis - 1889 - 128 pages
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New Englander and Yale Review, Volume 23

Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - United States - 1864 - 796 pages
...philosopher of our nursery rhymes, the man who was so :' wondrous wise," " Who jumped into the bramble bnsh And scratched out both his eyes. And when he saw his eyes were out, With all liis might and main, lie jumped into the bramble bush And scratched them in again." Now too is the...
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Selected Songs Sung at Harvard College: From 1862 to 1866 ...

Students' songs - 1866 - 134 pages
...hall," " There he heard a window, just above his head, Open very softly ; and a small voice said," — " There was a man in our town, And he was wondrous wise,...scratched out both his eyes ; And, when he saw his" " Dinah perambulating in the garden one day, Her father came to her, and thus he did say," — " '...
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Book of Rhymes, Jingles and Ditties

Charles Henry Bennett - Children's poetry - 1866 - 86 pages
...Thessaly, And1 he was wondrous wise, He; jumped into a quickset hedge, And scratch'd out both his eyes; But when; he saw his eyes were out, With all his might and main, He jump'd into a holly-bush, And scratch'd them in again. HTHERE was an old woman Lived under a hill ;...
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Carmina Yalensia: A Complete and Accurate Collection of Yale College Songs ...

Choruses, Secular (Men's voices), Unaccompanied - 1867 - 108 pages
...shall linger long These charmed scenes among, And oft inspire the song— God save Old Yale ! f 1. There was a man in our town, And he was won-drous wise, 2. And when he saw his eyes were out,With all his might and main, Presto *-j—^—F 1 —j^^FY* I3...
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Old Nursery songs, stories, and ballads

Old nursery songs - 1869 - 348 pages
...HEKE was a man of our town, And he was wondrous wise : He jump'd into a bramble bush, And scratch'd out both his eyes; And when he saw his eyes were out, With all his might and main, He jump'd into another bush, To scratch them in again. HERE was a ship, a stately ship, Set sail upon...
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New Englander and Yale Review, Volume 29

Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - United States - 1870 - 752 pages
...blind to the same fallacy in the system he has just adopted ! He had " j umped into a bramble bush And scratched out both his eyes ; " And when he saw...all his might and main, He jumped into another bush To scratch them in again." By just so far as his new teacher is infallible, it is simply documentary...
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The New Englander, Volume 29

Criticism - 1870 - 748 pages
...in the system he has just adopted ! He had " j umped into a bramble bush And scratched out both bis eyes ; " And when he saw his eyes were out, With all his might and main, He jumped into another bush To scratch them in again." By just so iar as his new teacher is infallible, it is simply documentary...
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The merrie heart, a collection of favourite nursery rhymes, by M.E.G.

Merry heart, Melville Gray - Nursery rhymes, English - 1871 - 244 pages
...THESSALY. THERE was a man in Thessaly, And he was wond'rous wise, He jumped into a quickset hedge, And scratched out both his eyes ; And when he saw...were out, With all his might and main He jumped into a holly bush, OLD KING COLE. THE MAN IN THE MOON. THE man in the moon Came tumbling down, And asked...
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The little folk's birthday book; or, Something good about children, child ...

Little folk - 1873 - 282 pages
...IN THESSALY. THERE was a man in Thessaly, And he was wondrous wise, He jumped into a quickset hedge, And scratched out both his eyes ; And when he saw...were out, With all his might and main He jumped into a holly-bush, And scratched them in again. Nursery Rhymes. LOST RU THI E. T~) UTHIE has wandered away...
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St. Nicholas, Volume 12

Mary Mapes Dodge - Children's literature - 1885 - 506 pages
...to be blind, rushing into other thorns he got his eyes. A free translation is the nursery rhyme : ' There was a man in our town, And he was wondrous wise," etc. Yours truly, GEO. HS BUFFALO, NY DBAR ST. NICHOLAS: In one number of ST. NICHOLAS you printed...
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