 | Star reciter - 1873 - 330 pages
...hoofs would rattle round Upon the cottage floor ; The matron learned to love the sound That frightened her before. A favourite the ghost became, And 'twas his fate to thrive ; And long he lived, and spread his fame, And kept the joke alive. For many a laugh went through the vale, And some... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1874 - 390 pages
...hoofs would rattle round Upon the cottage floor ; The matron learned to love the sound That frightened her before. A favourite the ghost became And 'twas his fate to thrive ; And long he lived, and spread his fame, And kept the joke alive ; For many a laugh went through the vale, And some... | |
 | 1879 - 516 pages
...hoofs would rattle round Upon the cottage floor: The matron learned to love tho sound That frightened her before. A favourite the ghost became, And 'twas his fate to thrive ; And long he lived, and spread his fame, And kept the joke alive. For many a laugh went through the vale, And some... | |
 | mrs. William Thomas Greenup - 1880 - 232 pages
...stranger in, And rear'd him as their own. His little hoofs would rattle round Upon the cottage floor ; The matron learn'd to love the sound That frighten'd...became, And 'twas his fate to thrive ; And long he lived and spread his fame, And kept the joke alive. BLOOMFIELD. LESSON 13. STORIES OF ANIMALS. •... | |
 | Passages, John Allen Giles - English poetry - 1881 - 744 pages
...reared him as their own. His little hoofs would rattle round Upor the cottage floor ; The matron learnt to love the sound That frighten'd her before. A favourite...became ; And 'twas his fate to thrive : And long he lived and spread his fame, And kept the joke alive. For many a laugh went through the vale, And some... | |
 | Ferguson - 1881 - 386 pages
...hoofs would rattle round Upon the cottage floor ; The matron learned to love the sound That frightened her before. A favourite the ghost became, And 'twas his fate to thrive ; And long he lived, and spread his fame, And kept the joke alive. For many a laugh went through the vale, And some... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1883 - 562 pages
...would rattle round Upon the cottage flour, : The matron learn'd to luve the sound That frighten' d her before. A favourite the ghost became, And 'twas...alive. For many a laugh went through the vale ; And sumo conviction too : Each thought some other goblin tale, 1'urliaps, wad just as true. 70 80 Here... | |
 | English periodicals - 1895 - 928 pages
...had lost its dam within the spacious park, And simple as the playful lamb had followed in the dark. A favourite the ghost became, and 'twas his fate to thrive, And long he lived and spread his fame, and kept the joke alive ; For many a laugh went through the vale, and some... | |
 | Ballads, English - 1902 - 386 pages
...hoofs would rattle round Upon the cottage floor; The matron learned to love the sound That frightened her before. A favourite the Ghost became, And 'twas his fate to thrive ; And long he lived and spread his fame, And kept the joke alive. For many a laugh went through the vale ; And some... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1919 - 410 pages
...They took the shaggy stranger in, And rear'd him as their own. And Bloomfield concludes : A favorite the Ghost became; And, 'twas his fate to thrive; And...liv'd and spread his fame, And kept the joke alive. (Rural Tales). Bloomfield's handling of this amusing situation gives token of an ability elsewhere... | |
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A favourite the ghost became ; And 'twas his fate to thrive : And long he lived and spread his fame, And kept the joke alive. For many a laugh went through the vale, And some conviction too : Each thought some other goblin tale, Perhaps, was just as true. 
