Journal of American Folklore, Svazek 32

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American Folk-lore Society, 1920

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Strana 456 - For fear thou make the golden beard to weep. Fair maid, white and red, Comb me smooth, and stroke my head, And every hair a sheaf shall be, And every sheaf a golden tree.
Strana 375 - As I was going to St. Ives, I met a man with seven wives, Every wife had seven sacks, Every sack had seven cats, Every cat had seven kits — Kits, cats, sacks, and wives, How many were going to St. Ives?
Strana 454 - The Life of Merlin, Surnamed Ambrosius. His Prophecies, and Predictions Interpreted; and their truth made good by our English Annals.
Strana 226 - Raven chose this word because the fool-hen has a shorter beak than any other gamebird. "If people guess riddles correctly at this time of year, then the winter will be short, and the spring come early.
Strana 446 - Society, is designed for the collection and publication of the folk-lore and mythology of the American Continent.
Strana 448 - When in one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flail hath threshed the corn That ten day-labourers could not end; Then lies him down the lubber fiend, And, stretched out all the chimney's length, Basks at the fire his hairy strength, And crop-full out of doors he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings.
Strana 514 - When John Henry was a little babe, A-holding to his mama's hand, Says, "If I live till I'm twenty-one, I'm going to make a steel-driving man, my babe, I'm going to make a steel-driving man.
Strana 16 - D'un baron de renom ; D'une ancienne famille Était le 'beau Damon^ II était fait au tour, Elle était jeune et belle, Et du parfait amour Ile étaient le modèle. Damon, plein de tendresse. Un dimanche matin, Ayant ouï la messe D'un père capucin, S'en fut chez le baron, D'un air civil et tendre : « Je m'appelle Damon; Acceptez-moi pour gendre. — Mon beau galant, ma fille N'est nullement pour vous; Car, derrière une grille, Dieu sera son époux. J'ai des meubles de prix, De l'or en abondance,...
Strana 492 - Thus the farmer sows his seed, Thus he stands and takes his ease. He stamps his foot and claps his hands And turns around to view the land.