 There isn't another creature living Would do it, and prove, through every disaster, So fond, so faithful, and so forgiving, To such a miserable, thankless master ! No, Sir ! see him wag his tail, and grin ! By George ! it makes my old eyes water...  The Atlantic Monthly - Page 2911863Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Silas Curry - Readers - 1888 - 456 pages
...is, sir, now I reflect, I 've been so sadly given to grog, I wonder I 've not lost the respect Bat he sticks by through thick and thin, And this old coat with its empty pocket*, And rags that smell of tobacco and gin, He 'll follow while he has eyes in his sockets. There... | |
 | Readers - 1889 - 220 pages
...we wont quarrel. He 's thirsty, too, — see him nod his head ? What a pity, sir, that dogs can 't talk ! He understands every word that 's said, —...empty pockets, And rags that smell of tobacco and gin, He'll follow while he has eyes in his sockets. So fond, so faithful, and so forgiving To such a miserable,... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - American poetry - 1889 - 536 pages
...is. Sir, now I reflect, I've been so sadly given to grog, I wonder I've not lost the respect ( Here's to you, Sir!) even of my dog. But he sticks by, through...empty pockets. And rags that smell of tobacco and gin, He'll follow while he has eyes in his sockets. i There isn't another creature living Would do it, and... | |
 | American poetry - 1889 - 532 pages
...is, Sir, now I reflect, I've been so sadly given to grog, I wonder I've not lost the respect ( Here's to you, Sir!) even of my dog. But he sticks by, through...empty pockets, And rags that smell of tobacco and gin, He'll follow while he has eyes in his sockets. There isn't another creature living Would do it, and... | |
 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1889 - 706 pages
...is, Sir, now I reflect, I've been so sadly given to grog, I wonder I've not lost the respect (Here's to you, Sir!) even of my dog. But he sticks by, through...empty pockets, And rags that smell of tobacco and gin, He'll follow while he has eyes in his sockets. There isn't another creature living Would do it, and... | |
 | Charles F. Beezley - Literature - 1891 - 436 pages
...sir, now I reflect, I have been so sadly given to grog, I wonder I've not lost the respect (Here's to you, sir) even of my dog. But he sticks by, through...empty pockets, And rags that smell of tobacco and gin, He'll follow while he has eyes in hlf sockets. There isn't another creature living Would do it, and... | |
 | James Vincent Coombs - Elocution - 1891 - 420 pages
...is, sir, now I reflect, I've been so sadly given to grog, I wonder I've not lost the respectHere's to you, sir ! — even of my dog. But he sticks by,...this old coat, with its empty pockets, And rags that scuell oi tobacco mid gin, He'll follow while he has eyes in his sockets. There isn't another creature... | |
 | Readers - 1893 - 262 pages
...is, sir, now I reflect, I've been so sadly given to grog, I wonder I've not lost the respect (Here's to you, sir!) even of my dog. But he sticks by through...empty pockets, And rags that smell of tobacco and gin, He'll follow while he has eyes in his sockets. There isn't another creature living Would do it, and... | |
 | Robert Ford - 1893 - 148 pages
...is, sir, now I reflect, I've been so sadly given to grog, I wonder I've not lost the respect (Here's to you, sir !) even of my dog-. But he sticks by,...empty pockets, and rags that smell of tobacco and gin, he'll follow while he has eyes in his sockets. There isn't another creature living would do it, and... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - Literature - 1893 - 462 pages
...sir, now I reflect, I have been so sadly given to grog, I wonder I've not lost the respect (Here's to you, sir) even of my dog. But he sticks by, through...empty pockets, And rags that smell of tobacco and gin, He'll follow while he has eyes in his sockets. There isn't another creature living Would do it, and... | |
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