| John Clark Ridpath - Literature - 1903 - 548 pages
...tarnished with ashes and soot ; A bundle of toys he had flung on his back, And he looked like a pedler just opening his pack, His eyes how they twinkled...little mouth was drawn up like a bow, And the beard on his chin was as white as the snow. The stump of a pipe he held tight in his teeth, And the smoke... | |
| Charles Eliot Norton - Fairy tales - 1899 - 296 pages
...tarnished with ashes and soot; A bundle of Toys he had flung on his back, And he looked like a pedler just opening his pack. His eyes — how they twinkled!...little mouth was drawn up like a bow, And the beard on his chin was as white as the snow; The stump of a pipe he held tight in his teeth, And the smoke... | |
| Children's plays - 1900 - 262 pages
...his head to his foot, And his clothes were all tarnished with ashes and soot; A bundle of toys he had flung on his back, And he looked like a peddler just opening his pack. His droll little mouth was drawn up like a bow, And the beard of his chin was as white as the snow ; And... | |
| Edmund Clarence Stedman - American poetry - 1900 - 968 pages
...pcdler just opening bis pack. His eyes — how they twinkled ! his dimples how merry ! His chocks wero like roses, his nose like a cherry ! His 'droll little mouth was drawn up liko a bow, And the heard of his chin was ns white as the snow; The stump of a pipe ho beld tight in... | |
| William Holmes McGuffey - Readers - 1901 - 238 pages
...his head to his foot, And his clothes were all tarnished with ashes and soot. A bundle of toys he had flung on his back, And he looked like a peddler just...little mouth was drawn up like a bow, And the beard on his chin was as white as the snow; He was chubby and plump; a right jolly old elf; And I laughed... | |
| Abraham Jay Demarest, William Maturin Van Sickle - Readers - 1901 - 188 pages
...was turning around, Down the chimney St. Nicholas came with a bound. soot; A bundle of toys he had flung on his back, And he looked like a peddler just...little mouth was drawn up like a bow, And the beard on his chin was as white as the snow ; The stump of a pipe he held tight in his teeth, And the smoke... | |
| William Holmes McGuffey - Children's literature - 1901 - 238 pages
...his head to his foot, And his clothes were all tarnished with ashes and soot. A bundle of toys he had flung on his back, And he looked like a peddler just...little mouth was drawn up like a bow, And the beard on his chin was as white as the snow; He was chubby and plump ; a right jolly old elf; And I laughed... | |
| Henry Troth Coates - American poetry - 1901 - 1080 pages
...had flung on his back, And he look'd like a peddler just opening j " Drop thy pipe, thy happy pipe ; ere my walk begun — Avoiding only, a« I trod, My...step profaned their lowly bed, My breath came gasping on his chin was as white as the snow. The stump of a pipe he held tight in his teeth. Sing thy songs... | |
| Readers - 1902 - 364 pages
...head to his foot, And his clothes were all covered with ashes and soot; A bundle of toys he had thrown on his back, And he looked like a peddler just opening...little mouth was drawn up like a bow, And the beard on his chin was as white as the snow! He was chubby and plump—a right jolly old elf; And I laughed... | |
| William Francis Dawson - Christmas - 1902 - 388 pages
...tarnished with ashes and soot. A bundle of toys he had flung on his back, And he looked like a pedlar just opening his pack. His eyes, how they twinkled...cherry ; His droll little mouth was drawn up like a iiow, And the beard of his chin was as white as the snow. The stump of a pipe he held tight in his... | |
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