 | Charles Lutwidge Dodgson - 1869 - 222 pages
...bones and the beak : Fray, how did you manage to do it . " "In my youth" said his father, " I took to the law, And argued each case with my wife; And the...it gave to my jaw, Has lasted the rest of my life." 5 " You are old," said the youth ; one would hardly suppose That your eye was as steady as ever ; Yet... | |
 | Lewis Carroll - Adventure and adventurers - 1869 - 212 pages
...bones and the beak: Pray, how did you manage to do it 9" "In my youth," said his father, " I took to the law, And argued each case with my wife; And the...it gave to my jaw, Has lasted the rest of my life." ADVICE FROM A "You are old" said the youth; one would hardly suppose That your eye was as steady as... | |
 | Literature - 1870 - 444 pages
...bones and the Pray, how did you manage to do it ? ' " ' In my youth,' eaid his father, ' I took to the law, And argued each case with my wife ; And the...it gave to my jaw, Has lasted the rest of my life.' " ' You are old,' said the youth; ' one would hardly suppose That your eye was as steady as ever ;... | |
 | English literature - 1877 - 672 pages
...and the beak — Pray, how did you manage to do it ?" " In my youth," said his father, u I took to the law, And argued each case with my wife ; And the muscular strength that it gave to my jaw Has lasted the rest of my life." ' Talking about parody, few have done better... | |
 | John Andrew Jennings - 1878 - 488 pages
...and the beak — Pray, how did you manage to do it ? " " In my youth," said his father, " I took to the law, And argued each case with my wife ; And the...it gave to my jaw, Has lasted the rest of my life." " You are old," said the youth ; " one would hardly suppose That your eye was as steady as ever ; Yet... | |
 | Children's literature - 1889 - 472 pages
...you manage to do it ?'' '•In my youth," said his father, "I took to the law, And argued each cafe with my wife; And the muscular strength which it gave to my jaw Has lasted the rest of my life." ld hardly suppose "You are old," paid the youth ;" one would h That your eye was as steady as ever... | |
 | William Davenport Adams - Poetry - 1880 - 362 pages
...bones and the beak — Pray how did you manage to do it ?' ' In my youth,' said his father, ' I took to the law, And argued each case with my wife ; And the...it gave to my jaw Has lasted the rest of my life.' Mr. Lear has written more than Mr. Carroll, but not more successfully. lake Shadwell, though in a very... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1881 - 952 pages
...and the beak — Pray, how do you manage to do it ? " " In my youth," said his father, " I took to the law, And argued each case with my wife ; And the...it gave to my jaw Has lasted the rest of my life." Mr. Cholmondeley Pennell has also written a very ingenious imitation of " How the Waters come down... | |
 | Books and bookselling - 1881 - 918 pages
...the bones and the beakPray, how do you manage to do it?" "In my youth," said his father, " I took to the law, And argued each case with my wife ; And the muscular strength which it gave to my jaw lias lasted the rest of my life." Mr. Cholmondeley Pennell has also written a very ingenious imitation... | |
 | Art needlework - 1882 - 136 pages
...bones and the beak — Pray, how do you manage to do it ?" " In my youth," said his father, " I took to the law, And argued each case with my wife, And the...it gave to my jaw Has lasted the rest of my life." One of our illustrations shows the Lobster's Quadrille, the performers in the present instance being... | |
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You are old,' said the youth, 'and your jaws are too weak For anything tougher than suet; Yet you finished the goose, with the bones and the beak - Pray how did you manage to do it? 
