...of worms ? Th very beasts make merry at the extravagant conceit the notion causes a defunct dog to smile : ex gra. the mastiff of Mother Hubbard —...coffin, When she came back the dog was a laughing." and reasoning beings. Be loyal even in death ; — be disposed of at his Majesty's pleasure ! I am about...

...in reality to be made a tool of by the widow, in her anxiety to make herself a Closet. CHAPTER II. " She went to the undertaker's to buy him a coffin, When she came back the dog was a bow-wow-woffing." DOWAOER Mas. HUBBARD. Mr. Daniel Pimple awoke at morning's dawn, and opening his...

...Ah ! my poor dog, she cried, oh, what shall I do ? You were always my pride — none equal to you. She went to the undertaker's to buy him a coffin, When she came back, the dog was laughing. Now how this can be quite puzzles my brain, I am much pleased to see you alive once again....

...To get her poor dog a bone, When she got there the cupboard was bare, And so the poor dog had none. She went to the undertaker's to buy him a coffin, When she came back she found him a-laughing." Let them work them out in pageant, in play, in drawing with plenty of color....

...antiquity, " were we merely to judge," he says, "of the rhyme of laughing to coffin in the third verse." She went to the undertaker's to buy him a coffin, When she came back the poor dog was laughing. But it seems possible also that the author of the poem had running in his mind...

...poor dog had none. She went to the baker's To buy him some bread; When she came back The dog was dead. She went to the undertaker's To buy him a coffin; When she got back The dog was laughing. She took a clean dish To get him some tripe; When she came back He was...

...poor dog had none. She went to the baker's To buy him some bread; When she came back The dog was dead. She went to the undertaker's To buy him a coffin; When she got back The dog was laughing. She took a clean dish To get him some tripe; When she came back He was...