 | Oregon State University. Agricultural Experiment Station - 1888 - 1202 pages
...or "ladv birds." It is a family containing many species. Every one is familliar with the old rhyme "Lady Bird, Lady Bird, fly away home, Your house is on fire and your children will burn", which is applied to members of this family. As a rule they are small,... | |
 | John Nicholson - 1890 - 194 pages
...a "forkin robin," or "battle twig." When children find a lady-bird, or cushy-cow-lady, they say, " Lady bird, lady bird, fly away home, Your house is on fire, and your children all gone." The little insect which makes a ticking sound at the head of a bed is... | |
 | Charles Eliot Norton, Kate Stephens - 1893 - 104 pages
...Pat it, and prick it, and mark it with T, Put in the oven for Tommy and me." LADY BIRD! LADY BIRD! Lady bird ! lady bird ! Fly away home ; Your house is on fire, Your children wiH burn. THERE WERE TWO BLACK BIRDS. There were two black birds Sitting on a hill, The one was named... | |
 | Colorado. State Board of Horticulture - 1894 - 472 pages
...only the little piece of poetry was different from the way Mrs. Wilcox read it. We used to have it: "Lady bird, lady bird, fly away home, Your house is on fire and your children all gone." I have had the little things in my hands many times, and I want to acknowledge... | |
 | Charles Eliot Norton - 1899 - 120 pages
...Pat it, and prick it, and mark it with T, Put in the oven for Tommy and me." LADY BIRD! LADY BIRD! Lady bird ! lady bird ! Fly away home ; Your house is on fire, Your children will burn. THERE WERE TWO BLACK BIRDS. There were two black birds Sitting on a hill, The one was named Jack, The... | |
 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson - 1899 - 236 pages
...you must judge. It has been very popular with the small public for whom it was specially intended. " Lady Bird, lady bird, fly away home! Your house is on fire, your children will burn ! Send for the engines, and send for the men, Perhaps we can put it out agen ; Send for the ladders,... | |
 | Charles Eliot Norton - 1903 - 138 pages
...Very well, thank you, and pray how are you ? Fal de ral — al de ral — laddy. LADY BIRD! LADY BIRD! Lady bird ! lady bird ! Fly away home ; Your house is on fire, Your children will burn. 15 Miss Jane had a bag, and a mouse was in it, She opened the bag, he was out in a minute ; The cat... | |
 | D.C. Heath and Company - 1903 - 360 pages
...two lines are familiar to every child, but Lowell wanted to add to them. This is what he wrote: — " Lady bird, lady bird, fly away home ! Your house is on fire, your children will burn ! Send for the engines, and send for the men, Perhaps we can put it out again: Send for the ladders,... | |
 | 1903 - 360 pages
...lines are familiar to every child, but Lowell wanted to add to them. This is what he wrote : — " Lady bird, lady bird, fly away home ! Your house is on fire, your children will burn ! Send for the engines, and send for the men, Perhaps we can put it out again : Send for the ladders,... | |
 | 1907 - 284 pages
...two lines are familiar to every child, but Lowell wanted to add to them. This is what he wrote: — " Lady bird, lady bird, fly away home ! Your house is on fire, your children will burn ! Send for the engines, and send for the men, Perhaps we can put it out again; Send for the ladders,... | |
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Lady Bird ! Lady Bird ! fly away home ; your house is on fire, your children will burn. 
