...chance. "Yellow ! Jump, you coward !" cried some of the boys lined along the rail. Others sang: 21 "Mother, may I go out to swim? Yes, my darling daughter,...clothes on a hickory limb But don't go near the water." while a naval officer stood at the inboard end to the boom determined that the simp should not come...

...down the losses, but if we must keep up some vicious things we can not cut the losses. It is a case of "Mother, may I go out to swim? Yes, my darling daughter;...clothes on a hickory limb but don't go near the water." I am firmly convinced, for my part, that these boats will never bring any substantial price. I have...

...River, where my feet could touch bottom any time I tired of kicking them. This seemed to be a case of " Hang your clothes on a hickory limb, but don't go near the water." I wanted to swim, was prepared to swim, and didn't dare to swim. I glanced along the shore line hoping...

...disturbances in the bathtub, produced without recourse to disrobing processes, while gleefully chanting : " Mother may I go out to swim? Yes, my darling daughter....clothes on a hickory limb But don't go near the water! Don't go near, don't go near, don't go near the water! " Publicly Skippy stood pledged to this uncompromising...

...as we do today, over the ridiculous jingle, ^ \jf* W • ^^M. *— ^ *-"! •*•" 'J IJF — S**) ^ Mother, may I go out to swim? Yes, my darling daughter,...clothes on a hickory limb, But don't go near the water! And for every one man of this present time who knows the classic Beowulf, there are at least five hundred...

...anywhere, they do not want to try it. We are like the old saw— " Mother, may I an out tn swim? Yi's. ni.v darling daughter : Hang your clothes on a hickory limb. But don't go near the wati-r." with the result you have no national policy in the merchant marine to-day. The Interstate...

...anywhere, they do not want to try We are like the old saw — "Mother, may I go out t« swlmï YPB. my darling daughter : Hang your clothes on a hickory limb. But don't go noni- thp water." with the result you have no national policy in the merchant marine to-day. Thf Interstate...

...humorist does not characterize this gesture as a political and diplomatic parody on the old nursery rhyme, Mother may I go out to swim? Yes, my darling daughter....clothes on a hickory limb, But don't go near the water. NECESSITY FOR PERMANENT SOLUTION However, our State Department, only a month later or less than a month...

...imposed that prevent him from examining the entire body. The situation reminds one of the nursery rhyme, "Mother, may I go out to swim?" "Yes, my darling daughter,...clothes on a hickory limb, But don't go near the water." Presence of Parents—Obviously the presence of parents at the examination is desirable. In some quarters...

...the perplexity of the little maid who, bidden to learn to swim, was yet adjured : ' Now go, my little daughter, hang your clothes on a hickory limb — but don't go near the water.' " The following introduction by a lyceum lecturer is a good example of local color. " Ladies and gentlemen...