 I put him into an out-house; and finding the symptoms he showed too clear to leave me any reason to doubt his madness, shot him, before he did any harm, through a little hole in the door, which I cut with my garden axe. The old rhyme says — A wife,...  Proverbs for Acting - Page 18by Ellen Pickering - 1844 - 121 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Emma Robinson - 1845 - 890 pages
...lawful spouse." " Hast thou forgotten thine own see-saw ? " said De la Pole smilingly. " ' For a woman, a spaniel, and a walnut-tree, The more you beat them the better they be.' " Yea, she is very earnest to see me once again, and declares her master is now so constantly... | |
 | Emma Robinson - 1853 - 518 pages
...lawful spouse." " Hast thou forgotten thine own see-sawP" said De la Pole, smilingly. " ' For a woman, a spaniel, and a walnut-tree. The more you beat them the better they be.t " Yea, she is very earnest to see me once again, and declares her master is now so constantly... | |
 | Chambers's journal - 1862 - 432 pages
...harm, through a little hole in the door, which I cut with my garden axe. The old rhyme says — A wife, a spaniel, and a walnut-tree, The more you beat them, the better they be. ííow, I am not going to question the effect of correction on the other subjects of this... | |
 | Harry Jones - 1864 - 454 pages
...harm, through a little hole in the door, which I cut with my garden axe. The old rhyme says— A wife, a spaniel, and a walnut-tree, The more you beat them, the better they be. Now, I am not going to question the effect of correction on the other subjects of this verse,... | |
 | William Gorman Wills - 1873 - 184 pages
...for the matter of that ; And what is still worse, she's as poor as a rat. [Sings. A spaniel, a wife, and a walnut-tree, The more you beat them, the better they'll be. QUEEN'S COUNSELLOR. The very man for Katharine. Peter, wait : What would you say to marry Mistress... | |
 | James Robinson Planché - Great Britain - 1874 - 302 pages
...have only to repeat that such a " court.ship," despite the slanderous old proverb — " A •woman, a spaniel, and a walnut-tree, The more you beat them the better they be," could never Lave been forgiven by such a woman as; Matilda of Flanders. Prudence, however,... | |
 | mrs. Alexander Fraser - 1877 - 288 pages
...him so long as she lives, and in this Val, like many of her sex, only verifies the adage, " A woman, a spaniel, and a walnut-tree, The more you beat them, the better they'll be." CHAPTER XII. THE AGONY COLUMN. " Has thy love of man grown chary ? Has thy trust in him grown wary... | |
 | George Hill - Elections - 1879 - 274 pages
...better man would he become. They might be excused for applying to him the lines, — " A minister, a spaniel, and a walnut-tree, The more you beat them the better they'll be." He was in possession of facts which justified him in believing that he should be able to prove before... | |
 | Warne Frederick and co, ltd - 1879 - 652 pages
...green and by many a cottage door. Our readers have, doubtless, heard the old adage : — " A woman, a spaniel, and a walnut-tree, The more you beat them the better they be." A third of truth is certainly contained in it, for beating a walnut-tree really does improve... | |
 | Harry Jones - 1891 - 248 pages
...harm, through a little hole in the door, which I cut with my garden axe. The old rhyme says — A wife, a spaniel, and a walnut-tree, The more you beat them, the better they be. Now, I am not going to question the effect of correction on the other subjects of this verse,... | |
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