 | 1913 - 640 pages
...and so was sure at last, That it was Spring herself, had passed. t1o AFTERNOONS KATHERINE BUELL NYE " One for the money, two for the show, three to get ready and — four to go ! " Down from the third step you jumped and lauded in a pile of leaves, where you lay, listening to... | |
 | Teaching - 1916 - 614 pages
...the two children sit on two chairs on the opposite side. To add interest to the game the old rhyme, One for the money, Two for the show, Three to get ready, And four to go. is repeated, and at the word go each of the two children starts to pick up one bean bag from the chair... | |
 | Thorne Smith - American wit and humor - 1919 - 142 pages
...role of seconds, and the principals. One bellboy wanted to start (or better, end) the thing by saying: "One for the money, two for the show, three to get ready and four to go." I objected to this on the grounds of childhood memories the ritual evoked and also because I disliked... | |
 | Charles Madison Curry, Erle Elsworth Clippinger - Children - 1921 - 716 pages
...turning, looking, bobbing, "squinting," thinking, until he thought his head off, saying all the while — One for the money; two for the show; Three to get ready; and four to — get ready to go! And this is the very way the wild turkey acts. The naturalists who had a chance... | |
 | Dallas Lore Sharp - Natural history - 1914 - 184 pages
...turning, looking, bobbing, "quinting," thinking, until he thought his head off, saying all the while — One for the money ; two for the show ; Three to get ready; and four to — get ready to go! But after a while, along toward dusk (and awfully suddenly!) — flop! gobble!... | |
 | Education - 1907 - 584 pages
...Agreed! Let us start from this post. We will run one mile. Come, Mr. Fox, you shall be the judge. Fox One for the money, Two for the show, Three to get ready, Four — to go. Hare (leaps away) Tortoise (plods along) (A few moments intervene.) Hare (hal¡ wa-y... | |
 | Edward Ehrlich Smith, Orton Lowe, Iona Jewell Simpson - Readers - 1928 - 458 pages
...turning, looking, bobbing, "quinting," thinking, until he thought his head off, saying all the while — "One for the money; two for the show; Three to get ready; and four to — get ready to go!" But after a while, along toward dusk (and awfully suddenly!) — -flop! gobble!... | |
 | Tennessee Williams - Short stories, American - 1954 - 228 pages
...not rupture myself ! Ha ha, look here ! she orders. Her black eyes flash as she coils up her muscles. One for the money, two for the show, three to get ready, and four to GO ! 155 Christ Almighty, says Ernie without much breath or conviction, as the mattress sails, yes, almost... | |
 | Paul Sills - Drama - 1981 - 76 pages
.... Fox. (Below APE.) and the fox took a paw . . . (And then they ALL swung him back and forth.) ALL. One for the money, two for the show, three to get ready, and four to go. (And up they tossed him into the air, and he came down on his feet, cs) RABBIT. Yip, my name's Jack... | |
 | Education - 1982 - 92 pages
...far away. Mother Duck said, "Quack, quack, quack." And five little ducks came swimming back. V-/ne for the money, two for the show; Three to get ready, and four to go. 1 here were five in the bed and the little one said, "Roll over, Roll over." So they all rolled over... | |
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Isadora, she'd used the principle of "one for the money, two for the show, three to get ready, and four to go," and they'd left her generous endowments that she invested in a hotel at Royal and Saint Peter's streets. 
