 I wondered hugely what she meant, And said, "I'm bad at riddles; But I know where little girls are sent For telling taradiddles. "Now, if you don't reform," said I, " You'll never go to heaven." But all in vain; each time I try, That little idiot makes...  Fun - Page 791865Full view - About this book
 | Connie Robertson - Humor - 1998 - 404 pages
...Cockayne The rapturous, wild, and ineffable pleasure Of drinking at somebody else's expense. 2480 'Only Seven' I wondered hugely what she meant, And said,...where little girls are sent For telling taradiddles.' 2481 'The Twins' In form and feature, face and limb, I grew so like my brother That folks got taking... | |
 | Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...Cockayne The rapturous, wild, and ineffable pleasure Of drinking at somebody else's expense. 6206 'Only nd I am but a barren stock. 3280 (to troops at Tilbury on approach of Armada) I know I have 6207 'The Twins' In form and feature, face and limb, I grew so like my brother That folks got taking... | |
 | Joseph Twadell Shipley - Foreign Language Study - 2001 - 688 pages
...obvious "whopper" of a fib was a tar(r)adiddle. HS Leigh, in Only Seven, a parody of Wordsworth, wrote: I wondered hugely what she meant And said: "I'm bad...But I know where little girls are sent For telling tarradiddles." WS Gilbert uses this in lolanthe. When Strephon is trying to explain to his sweetheart,... | |
 | 1901 - 28 pages
...that's the case." I stammered out, "Of course you've had eleven." -' The maiden answered with a pout, 0 And said, "I'm bad at riddles, But I know where little...never go to heaven!" But all in vain: each time I try The little idiot makes reply. "I ain't had more nor seven!" Postscript. To borrow Wordsworth's name... | |
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