 | American literature - 1865 - 820 pages
...twinkled Like a candle-flame when salt is sprinkled • And ere three shrill notes the pipe uttered You heard as if an army muttered ; And the muttering grew...the rats came tumbling. Great rats, small rats, lean rats,brawny rats, Brown rats, black rats, gray rats, tawny rats, Grave old plodders, gay young friskers,... | |
 | Half hours - 1856 - 676 pages
...twinkled Like a candle flame where salt is sprinkled ; And ere three shrill notes the pipe uttered, You heard as if an army muttered ; And the muttering grew to a grumbliiig ; And the grumbling grow to a mighty rumbling ; And out of the houses the rats came tumbling.... | |
 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - English periodicals - 1873 - 586 pages
...twinkled, Like a candle flame when salt is sprinkled; And ere three shrill notes the pipe uttered, You heard as if an army muttered; And the muttering grew...the houses the rats came tumbling. Great rats, small ruts, lean rats, brawny rats, Brown rats, black ruts, grey rats, tawny rats, Grave old plodders, gay... | |
 | Moncure Daniel Conway - American periodicals - 1860 - 794 pages
...1' — ' Yes.' — He played upon his pipe a tune, And ere three shrill notes the pipe uttered You heard as if an army muttered : And the muttering grew...rumbling ; And out of the houses the rats came tumbling : Qrcat rats, small rats, lean rats, brawny rats, Brown rats, black rats, grey rats, tawny rats, Grave... | |
 | Moncure Daniel Conway - Literature - 1860 - 786 pages
...? ' — ' Yes.' — He played upon his pipe a tune, And ere thrce shrill notes the pipe uttered You heard as if an army muttered; And the muttering grew...to a grumbling ; And the grumbling grew to a mighty rambling ; And out of the houses the rats came tumbling : Great rats, small rate, lean rats, brawny... | |
 | 1873 - 618 pages
...sprinkled; And ere three shrill notes the pipe uttered, You heard as if on army muttered ; And the mattering grew to a grumbling ; And the grumbling grew to a...grey rats, tawny rats, Grave old plodders, gay young pickers, fathers, mothers, uncles, cousins, Cocking tails and pricking whiskers, Families by tens and... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - Readers (Secondary) - 1861 - 562 pages
...twinkled, Like a candle flame where salt is sprinkled ; And ere three shrill notes the pipe uttered, You heard as if an army muttered ; And the muttering grew...rats, lean rats, brawny rats, Brown rats, black rats, gray rats, tawny rats, Grave old plodders, gay young friskers, Fathers, mothers, uncles, cousins, Curling... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - English language - 1862 - 578 pages
...twinkled Like a candle-flame where salt is sprinkled ; And ere three shrill notes the pipe uttered, You heard as if an army muttered ; And the muttering grew...grey rats, tawny rats, Grave old plodders, gay young friskerg, Fathers, mothers, uncles, cousins, Cocking tails and pricking whiskers, Families by tens... | |
 | Coventry Patmore - Children's poetry - 1863 - 386 pages
...Like a candle flame where salt is sprinkled ; And ere three shrill notes the pipe had uttered, You heard as if an army muttered ; And the muttering grew...rats, lean rats, brawny rats, Brown rats, black rats, gray rats, tawny rats, Grave old plodders, gay young friskers, Fathers, mothers, uncles, cousins, Cocking... | |
 | 302 pages
...Like a candle flame where salt is sprinkled ; And ere three shrill notes the pipe uttered, You he.ird as if an army muttered ; And the muttering grew to...tumbling. Great rats, small rats, lean rats, brawny rats, 13rown rats, black rats, grey rats, tawny rats. Grave old plodders, gay young f riskers, Fathers, mothers,... | |
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And the muttering grew to a grumbling ; And the grumbling grew to a mighty rumbling : And out of the houses the rats came tumbling. 
