Search Images Maps Play YouTube News Gmail Drive More »
Sign in
Books Books
" 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
Full view - About this book

Nursery rhymes, tales and jingles. The Camden ed. Compiled by mrs. Valentine

Nursery rhymes - 1874 - 586 pages
...Newington, And he was wondrous wise, He jumped into a quickset hedge, And scratched out both his eyes ; But when he saw his eyes were out, With all his might and main He jumped into another hedge And scratched 'em in again. CCCCLXII. IF all the world was apple pie, And all the sea was ink,...
Full view - About this book

Nugae Inutiles: Specimens of Translation

John Mudge Merrick - Classical languages - 1874 - 148 pages
...Mi nubes — ultra I Si dices non Occidam te." Respondit illa " Due, si vis, me." IX. THE BLIND MAN. 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...
Full view - About this book

Irish Monthly Magazine, Volume 38

1910 - 728 pages
...been " wondrous wise " although He jumped into~a quickset hedge And scratched out both his eyes. But when he saw his eyes were out. With all his might and main He jumped into a barberry bush And scratched them in again. 13. St. Clare of Assisi. By the Rev. Leopold de Cheranc6,...
Full view - About this book

The Peep-show

1875 - 592 pages
...men Couldn't put HumptyDumpty together again. and — Ride a cock-horse To Banbury Cross — and — There was a man in our town And he was wondrous wise, He fell into a gooseberry bush And scratched out both his eyes. And when he saw his eyes were out He sorely...
Full view - About this book

Carmina Concordiae: A Collection of the Songs of "Old Union" with Music and ...

Truman Weed - Songbooks - 1875 - 114 pages
...LI—U-1.1 U- 1 = = ^ := = ±= ^ = ^ = 1. There was a man in oar town, And he was wondrous wise; 2. And when he saw his eyes were out, With all his might and main, He jumped in - to a He jumped in - to anT~r-^ bram- ble bush, He jumped in - to a bram - ble bush, And serateh'd...
Full view - About this book

Proceedings of the American Gas Light Association ...

American Gas Light Association - Gas - 1897 - 450 pages
...be put straight. A little verse came to my mind in connection with this subject of advertising : " There was a man in our town, And he was wondrous wise ; He swore by all the heathen gods He ne'er would advertise. But his goods were advertised ere long, And...
Full view - About this book

Some Observations Upon the Civilization of the Western Barbarians ...

John B. Swasey - England - 1876 - 326 pages
...town Who thought himself so wise, He jumped into a bramble bush, And scratched out both his eyes. But when he saw his eyes were out, With all his might and main He jumped into another bush, And scratched them in again ! " This would seem to suggest that a conceited man, having committed an...
Full view - About this book

Some Observations Upon the Civilization of the Western Barbarians ...

John B. Swasey - England - 1876 - 322 pages
...town Who thought himself so wise, He jumped into a bramble bush, And scratched out both his eyes. But when he saw his eyes were out, With all his might and main He jumped into another bush, And scratched them in again ! " This would seem to suggest that a conceited man, ] laving committed...
Full view - About this book

Proceedings, Volume 31

Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1877 - 530 pages
...man ? Let me beg of you not to smile, because I am in real earnest : " There was a man of Thessaly, And he was wondrous wise, He jumped into a bramble-bush,...his eyes were out, With all his might and main, He leapt into a quickset-hedge, And scratched them in again." That is the great model which I would set...
Full view - About this book

Proceedings of the Liverpool Literary and Philosophical Society, Volume 31

Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1877 - 532 pages
...man ? Let me beg of you not to smile, because I am in real earnest : " There was a man of Thessaly, And he was wondrous wise, He jumped into a bramble-bush....his eyes were out, With all his might and main, He leapt into a quickset-hedge, And scratched them in again." That is the great model which I would set...
Full view - About this book




  1. My library
  2. Help
  3. Advanced Book Search
  4. Download EPUB
  5. Download PDF