 | Sam Walter Foss - American poetry - 1895 - 298 pages
...started out. "The way to get on fast," says he, "Is just to stay right where you be." THE CALF-PATH I. ONE day through the primeval wood A calf walked home...askew, A crooked trail as all calves do. Since then three hundred years have fled, And I infer the calf is dead. II. But still he left behind his trail,... | |
 | sam walter foss - 1895 - 300 pages
...started out. " The way to get on fast," says he, "Is just to stay right where you be." THE CALF-PATH I. ONE day through the primeval wood A calf walked home...askew, A crooked trail as all calves do. Since then three hundred years have fled, And I infer the calf is dead. II. But still he left behind his trail,... | |
 | 1899 - 828 pages
...this poem on the Calf Path, but it gives the answer to the conundrum that I have just propounded — "One day through the primeval wood A calf walked home...askew, A crooked trail as all calves do. Since then three hundred years have fled And I infer the calf is dead." A dog sees the path and takes it ; a bell-wether... | |
 | United States - 1901 - 712 pages
...Calf-Path," illustrates the absurdity of this progress-retarding influence in a homely but effective manner: One day through the primeval wood A calf walked home...askew, A crooked trail as all calves do. Since then three hundred years have fled, And I infer the calf is dead. XL But Etill he left behind his trail,... | |
 | Harry Thurston Peck, Frank R. Stockton, Nathan Haskell Dole, Julian Hawthorne - Anthologies - 1901 - 432 pages
...with delight ; And Satan said, " Come, Pious Dan, For you are just my style of man." THE CALF-PATH. i. ONE day through the primeval wood A calf walked home...all bent askew, A crooked trail as all calves do. n. Bat still he left behind his trail, And thereby hangs my moral tale. The trail was taken up next... | |
 | Harry Thurston Peck - Literature - 1901 - 444 pages
...with delight; And Satan said, " Come, Pious Dan, For you are just my style of man." THE CALF-PATH. i. ONE day through the primeval wood A calf walked home...all bent askew, A crooked trail as all calves do. n. But still he left behind his trail, And thereby hangs my moral tale. The trail was taken up next... | |
 | 1903 - 496 pages
...Calf Path, it leads them three miles to go one mile. "The Calf Path" is worthy •of careful study. One day through the primeval wood A calf walked home...do. Since then two hundred years have fled, -And. 1 infer, the calf is dead. But still he left behind his trail, And hereby hangs my mortal tale. The... | |
 | Canal Winchester (Ohio) - 1902 - 620 pages
...brigade, while the pine siding, on the side next to the fire, was half burned through. CHAPTER XVI. ROADS. "One day, through the primeval wood, A calf walked...all bent askew, A crooked trail, as all calves do. The trail was taken up next day By a lone dog that passed that way; And then a wise bell-wether sheep... | |
 | Medicine - 1899 - 670 pages
...Providence, An' call a good physician ! — Atlanta Constitution. * THK EVOLUTION OF MEDICAL SCIENCE. One day through the primeval wood, A calf walked home,...askew, A crooked trail, as all calves do. Since then three hundred years have fled, And I infer the calf is dead. And many men wound in and out, And dodged... | |
 | Phrenology - 1913 - 772 pages
...It? Sam Walter Foil. One day through the primeval wood A calf walced home as good calves should; Bat made a trail all bent askew, A crooked trail, as all calves do. Since then three hundred years hav« fad, And I infer the calf is dead. Bnt still he left behind his trail, And... | |
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One day through the primeval wood, a calf walked home as good calves should; but made a trail all bent askew, a crooked trail as all calves do. Since then three hundred years have fled and I infer the calf is dead; but still he left behind his trail and... 
