 | Clara Bradford - 1880 - 228 str.
...Queen smiled graciously. The doll waited no longer, but jumped on a garden seat, and began — " I had a little husband, no bigger than my thumb ! I...in a pint pot, and there I bid him drum ; "I bought him a little horse, that galloped up and down — I saddled him, and bridled him, and sent him out... | |
 | 1883 - 75 str.
..." No, I'll not sell my fiddle For e'er a wife in town !" 2O MY LITTLE HUSBAND. MY LITTLE HUSBAND. I HAD a little husband, No bigger than my thumb, I put him in a pint pot, And there I bade him drum ; I bought a little horse, That galloped up and down, I bridled him, and saddled him,... | |
 | Child - 1883 - 330 str.
...Cat ate the dump-lings. Mam-ma stood by, and cried, " Oh, fie! Why did you eat the dump-lings ? " I had a lit-tle hus-band, no big-ger than my thumb; I put him in a pint-pot, and there I bid him drum. I bought a lit-tle horse that gal-lop-ed up and down; I sad-died... | |
 | Child - 1883 - 330 str.
...deep, deep ; She climbs the moun-tains, high, high, high. Poor lit-tle thing ! she has but one eye. I had a lit-tle hus-band, no big-ger than my thumb; I put him in a pint-pot, and there I bid him drum. I bought a lit-tle horse that gal-lop-ed up and down ; I sad-died... | |
 | James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps - 1886 - 360 str.
...Thoina' Prefnre to • Tom k Lineoln,' p. ri.] I HAI) a little husband, No bigger than my thumb ; T put him in a pint pot, And there I bid him drum. I bought a little horse, That galloped up and down ; I bridled him, and saddled him, And sent him out of town. 1 gave him some garters,... | |
 | John Davidson - 1895 - 320 str.
...age. There is a famous nursery rhyme which I am persuaded was made about ages and men and words— I had a little husband, No bigger than my thumb; I put him in a pint-pot, And there I made him drum. The ages love jokes, and they take hold of men frequently, and... | |
 | Edward Pearson Moses - 1895 - 116 str.
...there. O mother, she looks Like a lamp in the air. Last week she was smaller, And just like a bow, I had a little husband, No bigger than my thumb ; I put him in a pint-pot And there I bid him drum. Clap hands, clap hands, O Tommy Randy, Did you see my good man ?... | |
 | Frederick Marryat - 1896 - 452 str.
...exclaimed, " Vell ! you are a nice little man," and then commenced singing the old refrain — " I had a little husband no bigger than my thumb, I put him in a pint pot, and there I bid him drum : " when Moggy, who had turned back, saluted her with such a box on the ear, that she made the drum... | |
 | 1914 - 812 str.
...First— Daffy Down Duly has come up to town, In a yellow petticoat and a green gown. Second — I had a little husband. No bigger than my thumb, I put him in a pint pot, And there I bid him drum. ThirdBaby, dear baby, come in from the yard, The clock .in the steeple strikes two, You said in a minute... | |
 | Andrew Lang - 1897 - 320 str.
...thumb ; I put him in a pint pot,. And there I bid him drum. I bought a little horse, That galloped up and down ; I bridled him, and saddled him, And...him some garters To garter up his hose, And a little handkerchief To wipe his pretty nose DID you see my wife, did you see, did you see, Did you see my... | |
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I HAD a little husband, No bigger than my thumb, I put him in a pint pot, And there I bid him drum. I bought a little horse, That galloped up and down; I bridled him, and saddled him, And sent him out of town. I gave him some garters, To garter up his... 
