 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...muttered ; And the muttering grew to a grumbling; And the grumbling grew to a mighty rumbling; And out of the houses the rats came tumbling. Great rats,...husbands, wives — Followed the piper for their lives. From street to street he piped advancing, And step by step they followed dancing, Until they came to... | |
 | Caricatures and cartoons - 1849 - 564 pages
...of bacon, and cheese, and butter. Consider the many-sorted rats abo\mding in the Establishment, — "Great rats, small rats, lean rats, brawny rats, Brown...Cocking tails and pricking whiskers, Families by tens of dozens." I And reflect on the consequence, if HER MAJESTY'S rat-catcher, ap| poiuted to rid the... | |
 | American literature - 1865 - 820 pages
...muttered ; And the muttering grew to a grumbling ; And the grumbling grew to a mighty rumbling : And out of the houses 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,... | |
 | Caricatures and cartoons - 1849 - 590 pages
...— "Great rats, small rats, lean rats, brawny raU, Drown rats, black rats, grey rats, tawny rat*, Grave old plodders, gay young friskers, Fathers, mothers,...Cocking tails and pricking whiskers, Families by tens of dozens." And reflect on the consequence, if HER MAJESTY'S rat-catcher, appointed to rid the state... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1850 - 436 pages
...muttered ; And the muttering grew to a grumbling ; And the grumbling grew to a mighty rumbling ; And out of the houses the rats came tumbling. Great rats,...husbands, wives — Followed the Piper for their lives. From street to street he piped advancing, And step for step they followed dancing, Until they came... | |
 | Half hours - 1856 - 676 pages
...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. Great rats,...rats, lean rats, brawny rats, Brown rats, black rats, gray rats, tawny rats, Grave old plodders, gay young friskers, Fathers, mothers, uncles, cousins, Cocking... | |
 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - English periodicals - 1873 - 586 pages
...brawny rats, Brown rats, black ruts, grey rats, tawny rats, Grave old plodders, gay young pickers, Fathers, mothers, uncles, cousins, Cocking tails and...husbands, wives — Followed the piper for their lives. From street to street he piped advancing And step for step they followed dancing, Until they camo to... | |
 | Moncure Daniel Conway - American periodicals - 1860 - 794 pages
...And the grumbling grew to a mighty rumbling ; And out of the houses the rats came tumbling : Qrcat rats, small rats, lean rats, brawny rats, Brown rats,...grey rats, tawny rats, Grave old plodders, gay young friakcrs, Fathers, mothers, uncles, cousins, Cocking tails and pricking whiskers, Families by tens... | |
 | Moncure Daniel Conway - Literature - 1860 - 786 pages
...rambling ; And out of the houses the rats came tumbling : Great rats, small rate, lean rats, brawny rate, Brown rats, black rats, grey rats, tawny rats, Grave...plodders, gay young friskers, Fathers, mothers, uncles, eousins, Cocking tails and pricking whiskers, Families by tens and dozens, Brothers, sisters, husbands,... | |
 | Thomas Shorter - 1861 - 224 pages
...muttered ; And the muttering grew to a grumbling ; And the grumbling grew to a mighty rumbling ; And out of the houses the rats came tumbling. Great rats,...husbands, wives — Followed the Piper for their lives.' From street to street he piped advancing, And step for step they followed dancing, Until they came... | |
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And ere three 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 rumbling ; And out of the houses the rats came tumbling. Great rats, small rats, lean rats, brawny... 
