 | English literature - 1805 - 590 pages
...captious; friend, at least : I little thought you'd still be able To stump about your farm and stable 5 Your years have run to a great length, I wish you joy, though, of your strength." " Hold,'' says the farmer, "not so fast, I have been lame these four years... | |
 | E Tomkins - 1806 - 280 pages
...don't be captious, friend, at least: I little thought yon'd still be able To stump about your fan.! and stable; Your years have run to a great length, I wish you joy, though, of your strength." " Hold," says the farmer, "not so fast, I have been lame this four years... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...welcome guest; But don't be captious, friend at least: 1 little thought you'd still be able To Stuni|> about your farm and stable ; Your years have run to a great length ; I wish von joy, though, of your strength !' ' Hold,' says the farmer, ' not so fast! I have been lame these... | |
 | Elizabeth Tomkins - English poetry - 1817 - 276 pages
...best, I seldom am a welcome guest : But don't be captious, friend, at least : I little thought you'd still be able To stump about your farm and stable...years have run to a great length, I wish you joy, though, of your strength." " Hold," says the fanner, " not so fast, I have been lame this four years... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1820 - 636 pages
...Death, " that at the best, I seldom am a welcome guest ; But don't be captious, friend, at least : I little thought you 'd still be able To stump about...years have run to a great length : I wish you joy, though, of your strength!"— u Hold," says the farmer, " not $o fast ! . I have been lame these four... | |
 | John Bowdler - Hymns, English - 1821 - 510 pages
...seldom am a welcome guest ; " But don't be captious, friend, at least :— " I little thought you'd still be able " To stump about your farm and stable...years have run to a great length- : " I wish you joy, though, of your strength !" — " Hold," says the farmer, " not so fast ! •' I have been lame these... | |
 | John Pierpont - Children's literature - 1828 - 320 pages
...best, I seldom am a welcome guest; But don't be captious, friend, at least: I little thought you'd still be able To stump about your farm and stable:...years have run to a great length: I wish you joy, though, of your strength." " Hold !" says the farmer, " not so fast: I have been lame these four years... | |
 | John Barber - Elocution - 1828 - 310 pages
...best, I seldom am a welcome guest; But don't be captious, friend at least: ' I little thought you'd still be able To stump about your farm and stable ; Your years have run to a great length; v I wish you joy, tho' of your strength! Hold, says the farmer, not so fast! I have been lame these... | |
 | John Pierpont - Readers - 1829 - 290 pages
...I seldom am a welcome guest ; But don't be captious, friend, at least: " • I little thought you'd still be able To stump about your farm and stable...years have run to a great length : I wish you joy, though, of your strength." " Hold !" says the farmer, " not so fast : I have been lame these four years... | |
 | Samuel BLACKBURN - 1833 - 254 pages
...I seldom am a welcome guest ; " But don't be captious, friend, at least : " I little thought you'd still be able " To stump about your farm and stable...years have run to a great length ; " I wish you joy, though, of your strength !" " Hold," says the farmer, " not so fast ! " I have been lame these four... | |
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And no great wonder, Death replies; However, you still keep your eyes, And sure to see one's loves and friends, For legs and arms would make amends. Perhaps... 
