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" The toad beneath the harrow knows Exactly where each tooth point goes. The butterfly upon the road Preaches contentment to that toad. "
Labour, Life and Literature: Some Memories of Sixty Years - Page 290
by Frederick Rogers - 1913 - 334 pages
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The Living Age, Volume 252

1907 - 850 pages
...color Is, and has always been, to a great extent local. The toad beneath the harrow knows Precisely where each tooth -point goes: The butterfly upon the road, Preaches contentment to the toad. Both the butterfly and the toad, thegentleman of England who lives a I home at ease, and...
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Departmental Ditties, Barrack-room Ballads, and Other Verses

Rudyard Kipling - English Poetry - 1890 - 294 pages
...after, We are richer by one mocking Christmas past. PAGETT, MP Tin toad beneath the harrow knows Kxactly where each tooth -point goes. The butterfly upon the road Preaches contentment to that toad. TDAGETT, MP, was a liar, and a fluent liar therewith, — He spoke of the heat of India as the " Asian...
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A Dictionary of the Malay Language

Sir Hugh Charles Clifford, Sir Frank Athelstane Swettenham - Malay language - 1894 - 542 pages
...shoulder which carries it — Pro». Note : This saying has much the same meaning as the verse : — ' The toad beneath the harrow knows Exactly where each...upon the road, Preaches contentment to that toad.' Brau, Chûba tîmbang brat-nya, Weigh it, ascertain its weight. Karâna përkâra ini përkâra iang...
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Pacific Municipalities, Volume 31

Municipal government - 1917 - 834 pages
...revenue only in municipalities — is extremely discouraging to the confirmed motorist. Kipling says : "The toad beneath the harrow knows, Exactly where each tooth point goes." If I may be allowed to speak for the toad beneath the harrow, let me say that the motorists of California...
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The Laughter of Jesus

Elmer Willis Serl - 1911 - 124 pages
...reminds me that I am too breezily indifferent to reality, and he quotes : "The toad beneath the Iiarrow knows Exactly where each tooth point goes. The butterfly...upon the road Preaches contentment to that toad." I grant this, yet ask, "Does it enable the toad to escape the next harrow point, to insist that there...
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The Bookman: A Review of Books and Life, Volume 32

Literature - 1911 - 850 pages
...must be lashed into subordination. The Toad beneath the barrow knows Exactly where each tooth-point goes ; The butterfly upon the road Preaches contentment to that Toad. THE "BOOKMAN Jt D VE K. TI JE K. Ready in January By the Author of "The Transfiguration of Miss Philura"...
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The American Missionary, Volume 68

Congregational churches - 1914 - 844 pages
...sermon through without sleeping. TWENTIETH LINCOLN MEMORIAL SUNDAY FEBRUARY 15, 1914 Secretary CJ Ryder "The toad beneath the harrow knows Exactly where each...The butterfly upon the road Preaches contentment to the toad." Old Song. "I would rather make a life than make a living." — Abraham Lincoln. The Sympathy...
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Hearings

United States. Congress. House. Committee on the civil service - 1928 - 366 pages
...McREYNOLDS. Generally speaking, that is true. Mr. STEWART. Well, generally speaking, it is ; but as I said : The toad beneath the harrow knows, Exactly where each tooth point goes. We know what happened. Mr. BROWN. I will say this: That if I had anybody on the Personnel Classification...
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Salary Increase for Certain Civil Service Employees: Welch Increase Salary ...

United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Civil Service - United States - 1928 - 298 pages
...give one right note. Mr. McREYNOLDS. I am perfectly willing to hear of it. Mr. STEWART (reading) : The toad beneath the harrow knows Exactly where each tooth point goes It is the butterfly above That preaches contentment and love. Now, we know what happens — no matter...
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Salary Increase for Certain Civlil Service Employees, Welch Increase Salary ...

United States. U.S. Congress. House. Committee on the civil service - 1928 - 302 pages
...McREYNoLDS. Generally speaking, that is true. Mr. STEWART. Well, generally speaking, it is ; but as I said : The toad beneath the harrow knows. Exactly where each tooth point goes. We know what happened. Mr. BROWN. I will say this: That if I had anybody on the Personnel Classification...
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