| Comparative linguistics - 1892 - 496 pages
...anfang lautet : * Old Mother Hubbard Went to the cupboard To get her poor dog a bone; When she got there The cupboard was bare, And so the poor dog had none. Von hier ah stimmen beide lieder im versmass genau iiberein und man sieht sofort, dass Miss Pigot das... | |
| Robert George Hobbes - India - 1893 - 594 pages
...communicated in the familiar lines : — " Old Mother Hubbard Went to the cupboard To get her poor dog a bone ; When she came there The cupboard was bare, And so the poor dog had none." * " On the outbreak of the Mutiny of 1857 many of the people employed in the offices of the Delhi Gazette... | |
| Robert Maynard Leonard - Dogs - 1893 - 388 pages
...Unknown. oc OLD MOTHER HUBBARD OLD Mother Hubbard Went to the cupboard To get her poor dog a bone ; But when she came there The cupboard was bare, And so the poor dog had none. She went to the baker's To buy him some bread, But when she came back She went to the joiner's To buy... | |
| Children - 1893 - 112 pages
...MOTHER HUBBARD AND HER DOG. Old Mother Hubbard Went to the cupboard, To get her poor dog a bone; But when she came there, The cupboard was bare, And so the poor dog had none. She went to the baker's To buy him some bread ; But when she came back, The poor dog was dead. She... | |
| Agriculture - 1913 - 680 pages
...the verse : Old Mother Hubbard, she went to the cupboard To get her poor dog a bone. But when she got there, the cupboard was bare, And so the poor dog had none. He told me that the State had no stallion. To my mind this sort of progress was like climbing a hill... | |
| Sir William Robertson Nicoll, Thomas James Wise - Authors, English - 1896 - 620 pages
...out from Old Mother Hubbard She went to her cupboard To fetch her poor dog a bone ; But when she got there The cupboard was bare And so the poor dog had none — much more elaborated on the ancient legend than Tennyson was accustomed to enlarge upon Malory... | |
| Education - 1910 - 916 pages
...the spoon," and "Old Mother Hubbard she went to the cupboard To get her poor dog a bone, When she got there the cupboard was bare, And so the poor dog had none. She went to the undertaker's to buy him a coffin, When she came back she found him a-laughing." Let... | |
| Andrew Lang - Animals - 1897 - 320 pages
...then she may swagger in two. OLD Mother Hubbard Went to the cupboard To get her poor dog a bone ; But when she came there The cupboard was bare, And so the poor dog had none. She went to the baker's To buy him some bread, But when she came back The poor dog was dead. She went... | |
| Charles Eliot Norton - Readers - 1899 - 120 pages
...HUBBARD AND HER WONDERFUL DOG. Old Mother Hubbard Went to the cupboard, To get her poor Dog a bone ; But when she came there, The cupboard was bare, And so the poor Dog had .none. She went to the baker's To buy him some bread; But when she came back, The poor Dog was dead. She went... | |
| William Henry Maxwell, George James Smith, George Jay Smith - English language - 1900 - 282 pages
...nursery jingle, — Old Mother Hubbard went to the cupboard To get her poor dog a bone ; When she got there, the cupboard was bare, And so the poor dog had none, we have an iambic movement, beginning with a rest, the feet running 4, 3, 4, 3 : — Here the extra... | |
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