 | George Merriam - Reader (Elementary) - 1841 - 308 pages
...borrow,— A mouthful of grain.^ He'd repay it to-morrow; If not, he must die of starvation and sorrow. But tell me, dear sir, did you lay nothing by When the weather was warm ? " 4. Said the cricket, " Not I! My heart was so light, That I sang day and night, For all nature... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - Readers - 1841 - 264 pages
...to the cricket, "I'm thy servant and friend, But we ants never borrow, — we ants never lend ; Yet tell me, dear sir, did you lay nothing by When the...looked gay." " You sang. sir, you say ? Go, then," says the ant, " and dance winter away !" 4. When thus he had spoken, he lifted the wicket, And out... | |
 | Charles Northend - Readers (Primary) - 1866 - 172 pages
...must die of starvation and sorrow. Says the Ant to the Cricket, " 1 'm your servant and friend, But we Ants never borrow, we Ants never lend. But tell...looked gay." " You sang, sir, you say? Go, then," says the Ant, " and dance winter away " Thus ending, he hastily lifted the wicket, And out of the door... | |
 | Thomas Urry Young - Education, Elementary - 1852 - 302 pages
...we e'er lend ; But tell me, dear cricket, did you lay nothing by When the weather was warm ?" Quoth the cricket, " Not I ! My heart was so light That...looked gay." — " You sang, sir, you say ? Go, then," says the ant, "and dance winter away." Thus ending, he hastily lifted the wicket, And out of the door... | |
 | Thomas Urry Young - Education, Elementary - 1852 - 296 pages
...nothing by When the weather was warm ?" Quoth the cricket, " Not 11 My heart was so light That I song day and night, For all nature looked gay."— " You sang, sir, you say ? Go, then," says the ant, " and dance winter away." Thus ending, he hastily lifted the wicket. And out of the door... | |
 | 1852 - 1162 pages
...must die of starvation and sorrow. Says the Ant to the Cricket, " I'm your servant and friend, But we ants never borrow, we ants never lend : But tell me, dear Cricket, did you lay nothing by When the weather was warm?" Quoth the cricket, "Not II My heart was... | |
 | Mary (aunt, pseud.) - 1854 - 104 pages
...he must die of starvation and sorrow. Says the ant to the cricket, "I'm your servant and friend, But we ants never borrow, we ants never lend ; But tell me, dear cricket, did you lay nothing by When the weather was warm?" says the cricket, "not I, My heart was... | |
 | Francis Channing Woodworth - Fables - 1859 - 322 pages
...he must die of starvation and sorrow. Says the ant to the cricket "I 'm your servant and friend, But we ants never borrow, we ants never lend; But tell...When the weather was warm ?" Said the cricket, " Not 1 1 My heart was so light, That I sang day and night, For all nature look'd gay." " You sang, sir,... | |
 | German literature - 1863 - 260 pages
...sorrow. Says the Ant to the Cricket, "I'm your servant and friend, But we Ants never borrow, we Anta never lend. But tell me, dear sir, did you lay nothing...looked gay." "You sang, sir, you say ? Go, then," says the Ant, "and dance winter away" Thus ending, he hastily lifted the wicket, And out of the door... | |
 | Nelson Thomas and sons, ltd - 1864 - 200 pages
...must die of starvation and sorrow. Says the ant to the cricket, " I'm your servant and friend ; But we ants never borrow, we ants never lend. But tell...looked gay." "You sang, sir, .you say? Go, then," says the ant, " and dance winter away." Thus ending, he hastily opened the wicket, And out of the door... | |
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I'm your servant and friend, But we ants never borrow, we ants never lend; But tell me, dear sir, did you lay nothing by When the weather was warm ?" Said the cricket, " Not I. My heart was so light That I sang day and night, For all nature looked gay."... 
