 | Claud Lovat Fraser - Children's poetry - 1922 - 72 pages
...the moon ; The little dog laugh'd To see such craft, And the dish ran away with the spoon. 28 XXIII JACK SPRAT could eat no fat, His wife could eat no lean, And so betwixt them both They licked the platter clean. 29 Cock-a-doodle-doo ! My dame has lost her shoe ;... | |
 | Charles Herbert Sylvester - Fiction - 1922 - 526 pages
...corn. "Where's the little boy that looks after the sheep?' "He's under the haystack, fast asleep." 34 Jack Sprat could eat no fat, His wife could eat no lean: And so betwixt them both, you see, They licked the platter clean. 35 There was an old woman who lived in a... | |
 | Heinrich Ewald Buchholz - Democracy - 1923 - 268 pages
...government, may be looked upon with prosaic practicalness. There is an old kitchen rhyme which tells how — Jack Sprat could eat no fat, His wife could eat no lean; And so between the two of them They licked the platter clean. The Sprats were not democrats, but individualists.... | |
 | Stephen Leacock - Canadian wit and humor - 1923 - 304 pages
...them as the basis. Suppose we take "Jack Spratt." The original text of the rhyme runs: — Jack Spratt could eat no fat, his wife could eat no lean, And so it was, between them both, they licked the platter clean. That's the ground work to begin upon, the next thing... | |
 | John Arthur Thomson - Biology - 1924 - 464 pages
..."curiosities," they have a deep significance. They illustrate the biological insight of the old tag: "Jack Sprat could eat no fat; his wife could eat no lean." That was how they managed to get on at all; and it is the same in Wild Nature. This sheds a new light... | |
 | Alpha Wilma Roth - 1927 - 186 pages
...All on a summer's day; The ice it broke, They all fell in, The rest they ran away. 2. JACK SERAT (MG) Jack Sprat could eat no fat, His wife could eat no lean, So it came to pass between the;a both They licked the platter clean. Jack ate all the lean, Joan ate... | |
 | Philip Hone - New York (N.Y.) - 1927 - 506 pages
..."National Defense," and she follows him with most marvelous incongruity upon "The Horrors of War." "Jack Sprat could eat no fat, his wife could eat no lean." They began this ridiculous career of vanity and silliness at the South, and taking the applause which... | |
 | 1882 - 958 pages
...Blackbird. 8. Sparrow. 9. Nuthatch. CRYPTOGRAPH. ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQKSTUVWXYZ. ZYXWVUTSRQPONMLKJ IHGFEDCBA. " Jack Sprat could eat no fat, His wife could eat no lean ; And so between them both, you see, They left the platter clean." PICTORIAL ACROSTIC— GLADOVA. i. G rapes.... | |
 | Ralph Milton - 290 pages
...relationship with a "primal energy," or even the more traditional "prime mover." I propose the Sprat solution: Jack Sprat could eat no fat, His wife could eat no lean. And so between the both of them, They licked the platter clean. They used a better and even more inclusive... | |
 | S. W. Fallon - Reference - 1998 - 336 pages
...hard on a drop of water. Chum chat Ice khâ liyâ. He licked him all clean. (Absolutely ruined him— Jack Sprat could eat no fat, his wife could eat no lean, so 'twixt them both» you see, they licked the platter clean.) Chuna aw chamar lute par thik rahta... | |
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Jack Sprat could eat no fat, / His wife could eat no lean; / And so between them both, you see, / They licked the platter clean. 
