 | Anna Callender Brackett - American poetry - 1909 - 374 pages
...speech, and bootless boast ! For which he paid full dear ; For, while he spake,, a braying ass Did sing most loud and clear ; Whereat his horse did snort,...Gilpin's hat and wig ; He lost them sooner than at first, Now Mrs. Gilpin, when she saw Her husband posting down Into the country far away, She pulled out half-a-crown... | |
 | William Harris Elson, Christine M. Keck - Basal reading instruction - 1909 - 428 pages
...luckless speech and bootless boast, For which he paid full dear; For while he spake, a braying ass 205 Whereat his horse did snort, as he Had heard a lion...As he had done before. Away went Gilpin, and away 210 Went Gilpin's hat and wig: He lost them sooner than at first; For why ?—they were too big. Now... | |
 | William Harris Elson, Christine M. Keck - Readers - 1909 - 426 pages
...he spake, a braying ass Did sing most loud and clear ; 32 Elson Grammar School Reader Book Four 205 Whereat his horse did snort, as he Had heard a lion...As he had done before. Away went Gilpin, and away 210 Went Gilpin's hat and wig : He lost them sooner than at first ; For why ? — they were too big.... | |
 | Claude Moore Fuess, Henry Nichols Sanborn - Poetry and children - 1909 - 324 pages
...loud and clear; Whereat his horse did snort, as he * 205 Had heard a lion roar, ii ,» And gallop'd off with all his might, As he had done before. Away went Gilpin, and away Went Gilpin's hat and wig: 210 He lost them sooner than at first, Now mistress Gilpin, when she saw Her husband posting down Into... | |
 | Claude Moore Fuess, Henry Nichols Sanborn - 1909 - 328 pages
...luckless speech, and bootless boast ! For which he paid full dear; For, while he spake, a braying ass Did sing most loud and clear; Whereat his horse did snort, as he 205 Had heard a lion roar, And gallop' d off with all his might, As he had done before. Away went Gilpin,... | |
 | Rose Lucia - 1912 - 158 pages
...said, ' I am in haste to dine, 'Twas for your pleasure you came here, You shall go back for mine.' 64 " Away went Gilpin, and away Went Gilpin's hat and wig...sooner than at first, For why ? They were too big. " His wife saw him gallop past again. She thought that he was crazy. She asked a boy to ride after... | |
 | Rose Lucia - Readers - 1912 - 170 pages
...said, ' I am in haste to dine, 'Twas for your pleasure you came here, You shall go back for mine.' " Away went Gilpin, and away Went Gilpin's hat and wig; He lost them sooner than at first, For why 'I They were too big. " His wife saw him gallop past again. She thought that he was crazy. She asked... | |
 | History - 1914 - 322 pages
...Did roar most loud and clear. Whereat his horse did snort, as if He heard a lion roar, And gallop'd off with all his might As he had done before Away went MADISON — away Went chapeau-bras once more. So frighted was the horse, it fell Much sooner than before.... | |
 | Martha Adelaide Holton, Charles Madison Curry - Readers - 1914 - 334 pages
...luckless speech, and bootless boast! For which he paid full dear; For, while he spake, a braying ass Did sing most loud and clear; Whereat his horse did snort, as he m Had heard a lion roar, And galloped off with all his might, As he had done before. Away went Gilpin,... | |
 | Allen Culling Clark - Presidents' spouses - 1914 - 630 pages
...Did roar most loud and clear. Whereat his horse did snort, as if He heard a lion roar, And gallop'd off with all his might, As he had done before. Away went Madison — away Went chapeau-bras once more; So frighted was the horse, it fell Much sooner than before.... | |
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And I should dine at Ware." So turning to his horse, he said, " I am in haste to dine ; 'Twas for your pleasure you came here, You shall go back for mine." Ah, luckless speech, and bootless boast ! For which he paid full dear ; For while he spake, a braying... 
