| Innes Hoole - 1821 - 628 pages
...will find it : pray do not forget it ; but if you should, at any rate come and tell me so ; and now, ' Ladybird ! ladybird ! fly away home ! Your house is on fire and your children at home." " Why should I feel these emotions of delight, in returning to a home that, alas ! contains... | |
| Robert Chambers - Ballads, Scots - 1829 - 430 pages
...drap wi' blude, And why sae sad gang ye, O ?" " O, I hae killed my hawk sae gude, Mother, mother: " Lady-bird, lady-bird, fly away home, Your house is on fire, and your children at home, &c. " The German children have it much more perfect, as well as much prettier, the English... | |
| L. M. Budgen - Aquatic insects - 1850 - 410 pages
...or two, en passant, on Nursery Ehymes, on that one at least which is pertinent to our subject. — " Lady-bird ! Lady-bird ! fly away home, Your house is on fire and your children alone ! " THE LADY-BIllD. Now, in reality, instead of flying to the rescue of her own innocents, her... | |
| Eliza Lynn - 1851 - 906 pages
...fly from a spider's net, or warming a fainting bee in her hand, or crying, " Lady bird ! lady bird ! fly away home ! Your house is on fire; and your children will bum" — in perfect belief that the lady bird would so fly away home — had made half a dozen dragging... | |
| Margaret Maria Gordon - 1855 - 306 pages
...epiders may be, it takes three hundred of them to make as much silk in the same time as our silk-worm. " Lady-bird, lady-bird, fly away home, Your house is on fire, and your children alone." Who has not thus addressed that pretty little beetle, adorned with a red spotted robe, which... | |
| Questions and answers - 1859 - 764 pages
...to recall the words. It is probably the following, which, however, has a modern appearance : — , " Ladybird, ladybird, fly away home, Your house is on fire, and your children will burn." Moor gives a Suffolk version of this in an orthography intended to convey the inexpressible vernacular... | |
| Tom Hood - Domestic fiction - 1863 - 360 pages
...good lady was very anxious to put an end to the civil war which she knew was raging so furiously. " Lady-bird, lady-bird, Fly away home, Your house is on fire And your children at home." So Denzil and Emma were left alone, with all Tresellan before them, where to choose their... | |
| William Houghton - Natural history - 1869 - 198 pages
...actually flew away. " What is the meaning," asked Mary, " of the nursery rhyme about the ladybird? Lady-bird, lady-bird, fly away home, Your house is on fire, and your children will burn ?" Indeed, I cannot tell you. There are different versions of the old song. One runs thus : Lady-bird,... | |
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