The 15,767 occurrences of ass

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"My lord," the other ass replied, "Such talents in yourself reside, Of asses all, the joy and pride."

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A man, whom I shall call an ass-eteer, His sceptre like some Roman emperor bearing, Drove on two coursers of protracted ear, The one, with sponges laden, briskly faring; The other lifting legs As if he trod on eggs, With constant need of goading, And bags of salt for loading.

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All three drank deeply: asseteer and ass For boon companions of their load might pass; Which last became so sore a weight, The ass fell down, Belike to drown His rider risking equal fate.

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Along the road an ass and dog One master following, did jog.

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He would not be too delicate, Nor spoil a dinner for a plate, Which, but for that, his favourite dish, Were all that any ass could wish.

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Clad in a lion's shaggy hide, An ass spread terror far and wide, And, though himself a coward brute, Put all the world to scampering rout: But, by a piece of evil luck, A portion of an ear outstuck, Which soon reveal'd the error Of all the panic terror.

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And if I don't get something out of that chap Davidge tonight, write me down an ass!"

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That bank manager is a pompous ass; he's a man of asinine, or possible bovine, mind!

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_Cler._ Geld me, For 'tis not fit I should be a man again, I am an Ass, a Dog.

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Moreover, it is the only letter he has ever made; because if it please your Grace, this drunkard is an ass."

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He threatened her with hell fire for having washed her face with ass's milk.

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The sturdiest of the three, Maxime, was the son of a half-witted woman, who followed the soldiers to war, mounted on an ass.

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Robin called her an old goat, Maxime an old she-ass, and Sulpice, the ass of Balaam.

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There were, notably, an ass playing a flute, and a philosopher, recognizable by his long beard and ink-horn, clashing cymbals.

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182 Asking Assistance 166 Ass Castaway, An 184 B Bear and Child, The 18 Bear Cubs, The 162 Broken Heart, The 60 C Carrier's Dog, A 160 Cat and the Crows, The 30 Catcher Caught, The 154 Charitable Canary, A 148 Child Saved, A 190 Choosing the Least of Two Evils 150 Clever Crow, A 20 Comedy of Elephants, A 64 Crab Fishing 86 Cunning as a Fox 66 D Death of Antiochus Revenged, The 78 Deceiving the Fowler 164 Dinner Bell, The 118 Division of Labor 144 Dog and the Goose, The 76 Dog of Montargis, The 84 Dog Sheep-stealer, A 40 Dog Smugglers 168 Dolphin, The 50 Drawing Water 58 E Elephant's Revenge, An 104 Elephant Rope Dancing 72 Escape of Jengis Khan 178 F Faithful Companion, A 70 Faithful, Though Unloved 68 Faithful unto Death 112 False Alarm, A 188 Filial Duty 38 Foraging 120 Fox Chasing 94 G Goat, The 92 Going to Market 152 Good Finder, A 52 Grateful Lioness, A 10 Grateful Return, A 138 H Heroism of an Irish Hen 32 Honors to the Living and the Dead 108 Horse and Greyhound, The 88 Humane Society, A 172 J Just Retaliation 48 L Lion and his Keeper 126 Long Lost Found Again 82 M Making Sure 16 Mice as Sailors 56 Monkey versus Snake 110 Mother's Affection, A 42 Mother Watching her Young, A 174 Musical Mice 158 Musical Seals 113 N Newfoundland Dog, The 6 Noble Perseverance 28 Noble Revenge, A 80 O Odd Family, An 49 Old Habits 27 Ostrich Riding 100 P Pig Pointer, The 134 Porus Saved by his Elephant 170 Power of Music, The 22 Providential Safe Conduct, A 74 Q Quarrelsome Apes 186 R Rare Honesty 142 Refugee Squirrel, A 176 Remarkable Newsman, A 12 Remorse 62 Retribution 102 Revenge 54 Rights of Hospitality, The 96 S Sabinus and his Dog 46 Sharp-witted Bruin 14 Shepherd's Dog, The 34 Shrewd Guesser, A 180 Sly Couple, A 98 Snake Destroyers 156 Sonnini and his Cat 116 Strange Foster Mother, A 114 Strange Mouser, A 44 Strange Playmates 106 Strange Protector, A 124 Strange Rooks 130 Studying 8 T Talking Parrot, A 146 Tame Colony, A 161 Tame Hares 132 Tame Seagull, The 122 Travellers 36 U Usurper Punished, A 128 W Watch Dog, The 90 Wise Ourang-Outang 136 Wrens Learning to Sing 140 I ANIMAL CONCERTS An abbot, a man of wit, and skilled in the making of new musical instruments, was ordered by Louis XI., king of France, more in jest than earnest, to procure him a concert of swines' voices.

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[Illustration] XCIV AN ASS CAST AWAY An ass, belonging to a captain in the Royal Navy, then at Malta, was shipped on board a frigate, bound from Gibraltar for that island.

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MASKS ARE THE FACES OF SHAMS 29 THE ASS IN THE LION'S SKIN "What pranks I shall play!" thought the Ass, "In this skin for a Lion to pass;" But he left one ear out, And a hiding, no doubt, "Lion" had-on the skin of an Ass!

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PRODUCTIVE LABOUR IS THE ONLY SOURCE OF WEALTH 52 THE COCK, THE ASS & THE LION The Ass gave a horrible bray, Cock crowed; Lion scampered away; Ass judged he was scared By the bray, and so dared To pursue; Lion ate him they say.

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"Come along, and don't be an ass!"

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Paddy recovered instantly and joined with the others in the admiration of the innocent ass which had strayed from its usual haunts.

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"Don't be a bally ass!"

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"Where are you going, you silly ass?"

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"You blithering ass," said the Captain, "there's one just across the road.

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Some London wag, in a kindred spirit, has illustrated the cockney song, 'If I had a donkey as vouldn't go, do you think I'd wallop him?' etc., as follows: 'The herbaceous boon and the bland recommendation to advance, are more operative on the ansinine quadruped than the stern imprecation and the oaken cudgel: 'Had I an ass averse to speed, I ne'er would strike him; no indeed!

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I had made an ass of myself in the whole business, and he would tell all the boys about it.

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After the episode, related last week, in which I foolishly organized a regular battle, to capture a supposed rebel, who turned out to be a member of my own regiment, I expected to be the laughing stock of all the soldiers, and that my commission as corporal would be taken away from me, and that I would be reduced to the ranks, and when, the next morning, the colonel sent for me to come to his tent, it was a stand-off with me whether I would take to the woods and desert, in disgrace, and never show up again, or go to the colonel, face the music, and admit that I had made an ass of myself.

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"Yes, and an idiot, and an ass," I said, as I handed back Jim's money.

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That he finally got the horse to go back to the regiment where he belonged, but on the way he had to pass brigade headquarters, when the horse stopped in front of the commanding officer and sat down like a dog, on his hind parts, and tried to shake hands with the colonel commanding, who was offended, and told the chaplain he was an ass, and to go away with his museum, or he would have the chaplain put in the guard house.

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really was little ass enough to get into that basket, he must have turned out something to make room for himself."

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You young ass, I was only kidding you!" said our detestable cousin.

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And Oswald felt like a young ass.

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"I'm brave all right," said Oswald, "only I do feel such an ass."

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'Lord, what an ass!' she then ejaculated, putting the paper-knife into her book to keep her place.

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I measured the space of the trap as I swung; I prided myself on my correct eye; you see I was a most complete ass: I have seen only a few completer.

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He is also a blooming, blossoming, burgeoning Ass, and he doesn't know it.

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There's no ass like Claud, There is no ass like Claud!" and were promptly silenced by Mrs. Merryweather.

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He thought me an ass,--well, he was right enough there,--and I thought him a bear and a brute.

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"Don't be an ass, Ferguson!

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He said, 'In a manger, Between an ox and ass.'

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Child suggests, 'as denoting a double ass?'

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A Lion having resolved to hunt in company with an Ass, concealed him in a thicket, and at the same time enjoined him to frighten the wild beasts with his voice, to which they were unused, while he himself was to catch them as they fled.

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Never having heard the voice of an ass in the forests before.]

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A timorous Old Man was feeding an Ass in a meadow.

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An Ass, on seeing the wild beast maltreated with impunity, tore up his forehead with his heels.

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An Ass meeting a Boar: "Good morrow to you, brother," says he.

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The Galli, {priests} of Cybele,[4] were in the habit, on their begging excursions, of leading about an Ass, to carry their burdens.

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During the Festival of Cybele, the Galli or eunuch-priests of the Goddess went about with an image of her seated on an ass, and beating a tambourine, for the purpose of making a collection to defray the expenses of the worship.

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_How Genius is often wasted through Misfortune._ An Ass espied a Lyre lying in a meadow: he approached and tried the strings with his hoof; they sounded at his touch.

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It seems to border upon the absurd to speak of an ass losing the opportunity of cultivating his "ingenium."

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Now an Ass, which used to gain a living for the Poor man, was standing at the threshold of a gate; and it so happens the maidens lead him along, that the fatigues of the way may not hurt the tender feet {of the Bride}.

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An Ass, seeing the Dog fawn upon his master, and how he was crammed at his table each day, and had bits thrown to him in abundance by the Servants, thus remarked: "If the Master and the Servants are so very fond of a most filthy Dog, what must it be with me, if I should pay him similar attentions, who am much better than this Dog, and useful and praiseworthy in many respects; who am supported by the pure streams of undefiled water, and never in the habit of feeding upon nasty food?

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An Ass and an Ox, fastened to the same yoke, were drawing a waggon.

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A Steed, swelling {with pride} beneath his trappings, met an Ass, and because the latter, wearied with his load, made room very slowly: "Hardly," said {the Horse}, "can I restrain myself from kicking you severely."

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An Ass asked a Horse for a little barley.

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THE SAPIENT ASS.

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Cybele's priests, in quest of bread, An Ass about the village led, With things for sale from door to door; Till work'd and beaten more and more, At length, when the poor creature died, They made them drums out of his hide.

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Then question'd "how it came to pass They thus could serve their darling Ass?"

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invisible_] I.XV feeding an Ass in a meadow [_i of "in" invisible_] II.Epil.

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Fn I.12 heard the voice of an ass in the forests before.

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One transport mule, who pretended to be frightened of us, but whose father was the devil and his mother an ass, plunged into a pond of black Flanders mud as we passed, and raked us with solvent filth.

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It makes your eyes stream with tears, and you look such a silly ass."

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"Ass!" said the fourth.

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If you ever perceive a man setting up as a merchant or a manufacturer, or going into the cotton or tobacco trade, or any of those eccentric pursuits; or getting to be a drygoods dealer, or soap-boiler, or something of that kind; or pretending to be a lawyer, or a blacksmith, or a physician-any thing out of the usual way-you may set him down at once as a genius, and then, according to the rule-of-three, he's an ass.

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The hare, the hound, the neighing steed, The lowing ox, the deer, The sheep, the hog, the braying ass, The sea-gulls hovering near, With groups of various birds and beasts, Of sorts both tall and scrimp, Were gather'd there upon the sands; And thither came a shrimp.

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Thou art not thyself; For thou exist'st on many thousand grains Which issue out of dust: Happy thou art not; For what thou hast not, still thou striv'st to get, And what thou hast forget'st: Thou art not certain, For thy complexion shifts to strange effects, After the moon: If thou art rich, thou art poor; For, like an ass whose back with ingots bows, Thou bear'st thy heavy riches but a journey, And death unloads thee: Friend hast thou none; For thine own bowels, which do call thee sire, Do curse the gout, serpigo, and the rheum, For ending thee no sooner: Thou hast no youth nor age, But, as it were, an after-dinner's sleep, Dreaming on both: for all thy blessed youth Becomes as aged, and doth beg the alms Of palsied eld; and when thou art old and rich, Thou hast neither heat, affection, limbs, nor beauty, To make thy riches pleasant.

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Such an ass, such a cursed ass had he become in one short month.

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If he made a precipitate ass of himself--what comparisons!...

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Well, he'd lose the game before he'd make a fool of himself again... Ass... he'd had the game in his own hands last night... could have switched off any moment.

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I'm not an old ass.

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The Musical Ass 287 IVAN KRYLOV 245.

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More complex forms might be chosen for the third grade, for example, "The Story of Alnaschar," "The Good Samaritan," "The Discontented Pendulum," "The Musical Ass," "The Swan, the Pike, and the Crab," and "The Hen with the Golden Eggs."

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He saw a cross fellow was beating an ass, Heavy laden with pots, pans, dishes, and glass; He took out his pipe and played them a tune, And the jackass's load was lightened full soon.

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THE TRAVELING MUSICIANS An honest farmer had once an ass that had been a faithful servant to him a great many years, but was now growing old and every day more and more unfit for work.

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"Pray, honest friend," said a citizen, "is that Ass your own?"

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At that time a hawker used to go from place to place, trafficking in goods carried by an ass.

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Terrified with the fear of death, the ass uttered a cry--the bray of an ass!

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And when he knew him then to be an ass, the future Buddha pronounced the first verse: "This is not a lion's roaring, Nor a tiger's nor a panther's; Dressed in a lion's skin, 'Tis a wretched ass that roars!"

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But when the villagers knew the creature to be an ass, they beat him till his bones broke; and, carrying off the lion's skin, went away.

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THE MUSICAL ASS TOMAS YRIARTE The fable which I now present Occurred to me by accident; And whether bad or excellent, Is merely so by accident.

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A stupid ass one morning went Into a field by accident And cropp'd his food and was content, Until he spied by accident A flute, which some oblivious gent Had left behind by accident; When, sniffing it with eager scent, He breathed on it by accident, And made the hollow instrument Emit a sound by accident.

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Then the grasshoppers drew near and the swans sailed close to the river banks, and the countrymen gathered about to hear wonderful tales of the slaying of the monster Python, and of a king with ass's ears, and of a lovely maiden, Daphne, who grew into a laurel-tree.

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Apollo would not suffer such a depraved pair of ears any longer to wear the human form, but caused them to increase in length, grow hairy within and without, and to become movable on their roots; in short, to be on the perfect pattern of those of an ass.

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They made haste to unbar the door, and when it was opened they saw a strange sight: mounted on an ass, whose head was held by a laboring man of the village, sat Don Quixote, huddled together in a most uncavalier-like posture, his armor all battered and his face begrimed with dirt.

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_See also_ Fable Apple of Discord, The, 332 _Arabian Nights' Entertainment, The_, =579=, 235, 578, 579 Arab to His Favorite Steed, The, =420= Arthur and Sir Accalon, =603= Arthur, King, =595-603=, 577, 578, 594 ASBJÖRNSEN, P., =122-128=; work of, 122 "As I was going to St. Ives," =23= "As I was going up Pippen Hill," =23= "As I went to Bonner," =23= Ass in the Lion's Skin, The, =281= "As Tommy Snooks and Bessie Brooks," =23= "A swarm of bees in May," =23= Autobiography; _See_ Biography Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, The, =646= A Was an Apple-Pie, =34= "Baa, baa, black sheep," =23= Babes in the Wood, The, =39= Baby Bye, =373= BAILEY, C. S., =59= BAIN, R. N., =160= Ballad, =425=, =436=, =628=, 437, 628 Ballad of Nathan Hale, The, =425= BARBAULD, A. L., =451= "Barber, barber, shave a pig," =23= Battle between the Fox and the Wolf, The, =591= _Bears of Blue River, The_, =500= BEAUMONT, MADAME DE, =110= Beauty and the Beast, =110= BEECHER, H. W., =290= _Beowulf_, 577 Beth Gêlert, =436= Betty's Ride, A Tale of the Revolution, =496= _Beyond the Pasture Bars_, =520= _Bible, The_, =288=, =289= Bibliography: (_a_).

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_See also_ Poetry, traditional _Mother Goose's Melody_, 19, 20, 445 Mother Hubbard and Her Dog, =41= Moti Guj--Mutineer, =562= Moufflou, =535= Mountain and the Squirrel, The, =424= Mountebank and the Countryman, The, =277= Mr. 'Possum's Sick Spell, =516= Mr. Vinegar, The Story of, =71= MULOCK, MISS, =73=, =80= "Multiplication is vexation," =28= Musical Ass, The, =287= My Bed Is a Boat, =383= My Garden, =418= My Shadow, =383= Myths, =306-366=; discussion of, 303-305; definition of, 303; objections to, 304; use in school, 305; value of, 304; Greek and Roman, =306-343=; explanatory introduction to, 306; Norse, =343-366=; explanatory introduction to, 343, 348, 360 Narcissus, The, =330= Nathan Hale, The Ballad of, =425= Nature literature, =513-574=; discussion of, 511-512; place in the grades, 13, 512; some types of, 511-512; what it is, 511 "Needles and pins, needles and pins," =29= NEWBERY, J., 19, 20, 445 NICOLAY, H., =655= Nightingale, The, =184= Noodle story; _See_ Droll _Norse Stories_, =348=, =360= NORTON, C. E., =420= Nursery rhymes; _See_ Poetry _Nursery Rhymes and Tales_, =59-63=, 56, 71 _Nursery Rhymes of England_, 20 _Odyssey, The_, 577 _Old Deccan Days_, =152=, 150, 151 _Old Greek Folk Stories_, =335=, =337= Old Ironsides, =425= "Old King Cole," =29= Old Man and His Sons, The, =275= _Old Mother West Wind_, =515= Old Pipes and the Dryad, =234= Old Woman and Her Pig, The, =56= "Once I saw a little bird," =29= "One for the money," =29= "One misty, moisty morning," =29= "1, 2, 3, 4, 5," =29= "One, two," =29= OUIDA, =535=, 534 Over Hill, Over Dale, =423= Owl and the Pussy-Cat, The, =403= PAINE, A.

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Cruel Fuscus sees it all, mischievously apologizes, will not help, and the shy, amiable poet walks on with his tormentor, "his ears dropped like those of an overladen ass."

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He sends his "Odes" by one Asella for presentation to Augustus, punning on the name, as representing an Ass laden with manuscripts (Ep.

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Nut Journal on former Treasurer's account 3.00 Expenses: Postage, Express and Insurance $ 9.79 Government Envelopes and Stamps 15.63 Adhesive Stamps 8.54 Postal Cards 1.25 Postal Cards and Printing 3.25 Registry Fee and Money Order Fee .18 Telegrams 1.18 Reporting Proceedings of Rochester Convention 50.00 Transcript of Proceedings of Rochester Convention 85.00 Reporting, etc., Proceedings of Washington Convention 60.00 Blank Account Book for the Association 5.00 Seal for the Association 7.00 1000 Letterheads 8.50 1500 Letters 8.50 500 Letters, double sheet 8.00 1500 Circulars 6.50 500 Reports, (92 pp., including cover) 184.00 500 Manila Envelopes 2.00 Printing 1.50 Addressing and Mailing 2.50 ------ $468.32 ------- $646.99 Respectfully submitted, H. J. HILLIARD, Treas., Northern Nut Growers Ass'n, Inc. * * * * * THE PRESIDENT: We will now be addressed by Dr. Britton, Director of the Botanical Gardens in which we are assembled.

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The cloven foot of the bulls and buffaloes gives a weakness to the extremities which will quickly lead to disease in case they are forced to carry heavy loads such as the horse or ass may safely bear.

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Ass, 93.

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Listen!--'Ping, ping, prash, Cur yn cadley-jiargan ass my chass.'"

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["The man's an ass," thought Lovibond.]

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"But all this is rot and nonsense," said Ralph the heir, brushing the tears away from his eyes, "and I am only making an ass of myself.

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"I'm not going to be such an ass," he said to his brother, "as to keep two sets of horses going.

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The failure of his hopes, joined to the inexpressibly bitter feeling that in their joint transactions young Newton had received all that had been necessary to him, whereas he, Neefit, had got none of that for which he had bargained,-these together had so upset him that he had lost his balance, had travelled out of his usual grooves, and had made an ass of himself.

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