 | New York (State). Legislature. Assembly - New York (State) - 1913 - 956 pages
...Throughout the land, whenever a country child sees one of these ladybird beetles, he addresses it thus: " Ladybird, Ladybird, fly away home, Your house is on fire, your children are burning." But Ladybird is not at all frightened at this piece of news, because she does not know... | |
 | New York (State) Dept. of Agriculture - 1914 - 956 pages
...Throughout the land, whenever a country child sees one of these ladybird beetles, he addresses it thus: " Ladybird, Ladybird, fly away home, Your house is on fire, your children will burn." But ladybird is not at all frightened at this piece of news, because she does not know where... | |
 | Etta Blaisdell McDonald, M. F. Blaisdell - Readers (Primary) - 1916 - 128 pages
...pie. I can not buy the apple pie. I will buy a penny white cake. I will give a penny for the cake. Lady-bird, lady-bird, Fly away home. Your house is on fire, Your children will burn. Mistress Mary, quite contrary, . How does your garden grow? With, cockle-shells and silver bells,... | |
 | John Gilbert Thompson - 1916 - 200 pages
...SLOWLY AND SOME WANTED TO MAKCH SWIFTLY I caught a hare alive ; 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, I let him go again. Lady-bird, lady-bird, Fly away home, Your house is on fire, Your children will burn. See a pin and pick it up, All the day you'll have good luck See a pin and let it stay, Bad luck... | |
 | BLANCHE FISHER WRIGHT - 1916 - 132 pages
...blithe, and good and gay. A CHIMNEY Black within and red without; Four corners round about. LADYBI RD Ladybird, ladybird, fly away home! Your house is on fire, your children all gone, All but one, and her name is Ann, And she crept under the pudding pan. NAUGHT There was a... | |
 | Jean Sherwood Rankin - English language - 1917 - 212 pages
...whipped them, he made them dance Out of Scotland into France, Out of France into Spain, LESSON XXXVI Lady-bird, lady-bird, Fly away home ! Your house is on fire ! Your children will burn! I WRITTEN Study the rime till you know it. Notice the hyphen in lady-bird. Why are exclamation... | |
 | Ruth Putnam - Luxembourg - 1918 - 568 pages
...the nobles were trying to repulse his troops in one place their castles were burned in another. ' ' Ladybird, lady-bird, fly away home, your house is on fire, your children will burn!" hid a dire warning under its lighter aspect. The ruined castles in Luxemburg date from this... | |
 | Frank Eugene Lutz - Electronic books - 1918 - 578 pages
...relief to the reader also when we reach, as now, a family whose habits we like. Many of us have quoted Lady-bird, lady-bird! Fly away home. Your house is on fire. Your children do roam. Some of us add Except little Nan, who sits in a pan Weaving gold laces As fast as she can.... | |
 | Anne Burrows Gilchrist, Walt Whitman - Authors, English - 1918 - 300 pages
...English name "ladybird" better than "ladybug". Do your children always say when they see one, as ours do, "Ladybird, ladybird, fly away home: your house is on fire, your children are flown"? But for the rest — I believe 1 am growing a very good American; indeed, certain am I... | |
 | Florence Howe Hall - Suffragists - 1918 - 376 pages
...post until, as retiring treasurer, she had signed all the checks. Some one quoted apropos of this : "Ladybird, fly away home. Your house is on fire, Your children will burn." Mrs. Moore has since served as president of the General Federation and held other important... | |
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Lady-bird ! Lady-bird ! fly away home, Your house is on fire, your children will roam... 
