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| 1837 - 1322 pages
...The children were nestled all snug in their beds, While visions of sugar-plums danced through their heads; And mamma in her kerchief, and I in my cap,...a long winter's nap — When out on the lawn there arose such a clatter, I sprang from the bed to see what was the matter: Away to the window I flew like... | |
| Children's periodicals - 1838 - 448 pages
...nestled all snug in their beds, While visions of sugar-plums danced through their heads j And rnamma in her 'kerchief, and I in my cap, Had just settled...a long winter's nap — When out on the lawn there arose such a clatter, T sprang from the bed to see what was the matter : Away to the window I flew... | |
| John Epy Lovell - Elocution - 1836 - 534 pages
...there. The children were nestled all snug in their beds, While visions of sugar-plums danced in their heads, And mamma in her kerchief, and I in my cap,...the lawn there rose such a clatter, I sprang from the bed to see what was the matter. Away to the window I flew like a flash, Tore open the shutters,... | |
| Charles Fenno Hoffman - American literature - 1837 - 278 pages
...The children were nestled all snug in their beds, While visions of sugar-plums danced through their heads ; And mamma in her 'kerchief, and I in my cap,...a long winter's nap — When out on the lawn there arose such a clatter, I sprang from the bed to see what was the matter : Away to the window I flew... | |
| American literature - 1837 - 660 pages
...The children were nestled all snug in their beds, While visions of sugar-plums danced through their heads ; And mamma in her 'kerchief, and I in my cap, Had jusi settled our brains for a long winter's nap — When out on the lawn there arose such a clatter,... | |
| Animals - 1839 - 204 pages
...The children were nestled, all snug in their beds, While visions of sugar-plums danced through their heads; And mamma in her 'kerchief, and I in my cap, Had just settled our brains for a long winter nap, When, out on the lawn, there arose such a clatter, I sprung from the bed, to see what was... | |
| John Keese - American poetry - 1840 - 302 pages
...The children were nestled all snug in their beds, While visions of sugarplums danced through their heads; And mamma in her 'kerchief, and I in my cap,...a long winter's nap — When out on the lawn there arose such a clatter, I sprang from the bed to see what was the matter : Away to the window I flew... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1840 - 328 pages
...The children were nestled all snug in their beds, While visions of sugarplums danced through their heads ; And mamma in her 'kerchief, and I in my cap,...for a long winter's nap ; When out on the lawn there arose such a clatter, I sprang from the bed to see what was the matter : Away to the window I flaw... | |
| John Keese - American poetry - 1840 - 304 pages
...The children were nestled all snug in their beds, While visions of sugarplums danced through their heads ; And mamma in her 'kerchief, and I in my cap,...a long winter's nap — When out on the lawn there arose such a clatter, I sprang from the bed to see what was the matter : Away to the window I flew... | |
| John Epy Lovell - Readers - 1843 - 524 pages
...there. The children were nestled all snug in their beds, While visions of sugar-plums danced in their heads, And mamma in her kerchief, and I in my cap,...the lawn there rose such a clatter, I sprang from the bed to see what was the matter. Away to the window I flew like a flash, Tore open the shutters,... | |
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