 | Lucius Hudson Holt - English poetry - 1915 - 952 pages
...luckless speech, and bootless boast ! For which he paid full dear ; For, while he spake, a braying ass Did ; And I fear, I fear, : 310 He lost them sooner than at first; For why ? — they were too big. Now Mistress Gilpin, when... | |
 | Ella Flagg Young, Walter Taylor Field - Readers - 1915 - 392 pages
...speech, and bootless boast ! For which he paid full dear ; w For, while he spake, a braying ass Did sing most loud and clear; Whereat his horse did snort,...a lion roar, And galloped off with all his might, 3> As he had done before. Away went Gilpin, and away Went Gilpin's hat and wig; He -lost them sooner... | |
 | Emilie Kip Baker - Children's poetry - 1915 - 232 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 Had heard a lion roar, And gallop'd off with all his might, As he had done before. Away went Gilpin, and away Went Gilpin's hat... | |
 | George E. Teter - American poetry - 1918 - 456 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,...were too big. Now Mistress Gilpin, when she saw Her htisband posting down Into the country far away, She pulled out half-a-crown ; And thus unto the youth... | |
 | William Harris Elson, Christine M. Keck - Readers - 1920 - 668 pages
...boast, For which he paid full dear; For while he spake, a braying ass Did sing most loud and clear; 25 Whereat his horse did snort, as he Had heard a lion...galloped off with all his might, As he had done before. He lost them sooner than at first, For why? They were too big. Now Mistress Gilpin, when she saw Her... | |
 | William Harris Elson, Christine M. Keck - Literature - 1920 - 668 pages
...did snort, as he Had heard a lion roar, And galloped off with all his might, As he had done before. He lost them sooner than at first, For why? They were...Mistress Gilpin, when she saw Her husband posting down 5 Into the country far away, She pulled out half-a-crown; And thus unto the youth she said, That drove... | |
 | William Harris Elson, Christine M. Keck, Lura E. Runkel - Readers - 1921 - 680 pages
...braying ass Did sing most loud and clear; Whereat his horse did snort, as he Had heard a lion roar, 15 And galloped off with all his might, As he had done...Gilpin's hat and wig; He lost them sooner than at first, 20 For why? They were too big. Now Mistress Gilpin, when she saw Her husband posting down Into the... | |
 | William Harris Elson - 1921 - 552 pages
...luckless speech and bootless1 boast, m 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 Had heard a lion roar, 15 And galloped off with all his might, As he had done before. Away went Gilpin, and away Went Gilpin's... | |
 | Henry Van Dyke, Hardin Craig, Asa Don Dickinson - American literature - 1922 - 1920 pages
...For which he paid full dear; For, while he spake, a braying ass Did sing most loud and clear; 2°4 Whereat his horse did snort, as he Had heard a lion roar, And galfoped off with all his might, As he had done before. 2°8 Away went Gilpin, and away Went Gilpin's... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1925 - 412 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 Had heard a lion roar, And galloped oil' with all his might. As he had done before. Away went Gilpin, and away Went Gilpin's hat and wig... | |
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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... 
