 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?  London Society - Page 2371877Full view - About this book
 | Lewis Carroll - Adventure and adventurers - 1869 - 212 pages
...with the 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 muscular strength, which it gave to my jaw, Has lasted the rest of my life." ADVICE FROM A "You are old" said the youth;... | |
 | Charles Lutwidge Dodgson - 1869 - 222 pages
...with the 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 muscular strength, which it gave to my jaw, Has lasted the rest of my life." 5 " You are old," said the youth ; one would... | |
 | Literature - 1870 - 444 pages
...his father, ' I took to the law, And argued each case with my wife ; And the muscular strength which 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 ;... | |
 | John Andrew Jennings - 1878 - 488 pages
...the 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 muscular strength, which it gave to my jaw, Has lasted the rest of my life." " You are old," said the youth ; " one would... | |
 | Children's literature - 1889 - 472 pages
...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... | |
 | George Melville Baker - Elocution - 1879 - 734 pages
...• , ,.j < . ••" .• ' ' •• • . , , ,. t . ,. , • " In my youth," said his father, " I took to the law, And argued each case with my wife ; Awl the muscular strength which it gave to my jaw, H»s (asted the rest of my Hie." " You are old,"... | |
 | William Davenport Adams - Poetry - 1880 - 362 pages
...with the 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 muscular strength which it gave to my jaw Has lasted the rest of my life.' Mr. Lear has written more than Mr. Carroll,... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1881 - 952 pages
...his father, " I took to the law, And argued each case with my wife ; And the muscular strength which 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... | |
 | Art needlework - 1882 - 136 pages
...with the 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 muscular strength which it gave to my jaw Has lasted the rest of my life." One of our illustrations shows the Lobster's... | |
 | William T. Dobson - Alliteration - 1882 - 326 pages
...with the 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 muscular strength which it gave to my jaw Has lasted the rest of my life.' " * Mr. H. Choltnondeley-Pennell in " Puck... | |
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