 | John Farmer - New Hampshire - 1824 - 492 pages
...stabbing iron Upon the little end on't. Aad there I see a pumpkin shell, As hig as mother's bason, And every time they touch'd it off, * They scamper'd like the nation, After verse 10. ' I see another snarl of men A digging graves, they told me, So tarnal long, so tarnal... | |
 | William Evans Burton - Wit and humor - 1859 - 690 pages
...crooked stabbing iron Upon the little end on't. And there I see a pumpkin-shell As big as mother's bason, And every time they touch'd it off, They scamper'd like the nation. I see a little barrel too, The heads were made of leather, They knock'd upon't with little clubs, And... | |
 | HENRY HOWE - 1859 - 748 pages
...crooked stabbing iron Upon the little end on't. And there I see a pumpkin shell As big as mother's bason; And every time they touch'd it off, They scamper'd like the nation. I see a little barrel too, The heads were made of leather, They knock'd upoirt with little clubs, And... | |
 | William Thomas Roberts Saffell - Mount Vernon - 1864 - 142 pages
...would have cocked it ; It scared me so I shrinked off, and hung by daddy's pocket. And there I seed a pumpkin shell as big as mother's basin, And every time they touched it off they scampered like the nation. And there I seed a little keg, its heads were made of... | |
 | Wayne E. Burton - Wit and humor - 1867 - 674 pages
...stabbing iron Upon the little end on't. And there I see a pumpkin-shell As big as mother's ba§on, And every time they touch'd it off, They scamper'd like the nation. I see a little barrel too, The heads were made of leather, They knock'd upon't with little clubs, And... | |
 | George Henry Preble - Flags - 1880 - 928 pages
...clapped his hand on, And stuck a crooked stabbing-iron Upon the little end on't Chorus. And there I saw a pumpkin shell As big as mother's basin ; And every time they sent one off, I saw a little bar'cl, too, Its heads were made of leather ; They knocked on it with... | |
 | Hezekiah Butterworth - United States - 1881 - 550 pages
...gun, He kind a clapped his hand on't, And stuck a crooked stabbing iron Upon the little end on't. 9 And there I see a pumpkin shell As big as mother's basin, And every time they touched it off They scampered like the nation. IO. And there I see a little keg, Its head was made... | |
 | Hezekiah Butterworth - United States - 1882 - 556 pages
...gun, He kind a clapped his hand on't, And stuck a crooked stabbing iron Upon the little end on't. 9And there I see a pumpkin shell As big as mother's basin, And every time they touched it off They scampered like the nation. 10. And there I see a little keg, Its head was made... | |
 | New England - 1890 - 746 pages
...o' clapped his hand on, And stuck a crooked stabbing-iron Upon the little end on't. And there I saw a pumpkin shell As big as mother's basin; And every time they sent one off, They scampered like tarnation. I saw a little bar'el, too, Its heads were made of leather;... | |
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I shrinked it off, And hung by father's pocket. And Captain Davis had a gun, He kind of clapt his hand on't, And stuck a crooked stabbing iron Upon the little end on't. 
