 | 1917 - 574 lapas
...Judge Baldwin. By THOMAS C. YARNALL "Mother, may I go out to swim?" "Yes, my darling daughter. Hang your clothes on a hickory limb, But don't go near the water." This old nursery rhyme, that is a relic of our childhood, was brought back forcibly to my mind the... | |
 | Harris Dickson - 1917 - 186 lapas
...States, which recalls the sensible old song, "Mother, may I go in to swim? Yes, my darling daughter. Hang your clothes on a hickory limb, But don't go near the water." That's an American joke and everybody can understand it. But what the British did to the recruits who... | |
 | George Henry Browne - 1917 - 56 lapas
...experience how it is with swimming and the other physical arts. I have as little sympathy with the "hang your clothes on a hickory limb, but don't go near the water" method as with the Wisconsin theory that there can be no transference of power or skill from one physical... | |
 | Leslie W. Quirk - 1919 - 338 lapas
...mile. Across the marsh, the other boys had halted. They were still warbling that fool jingle. " ' Hang your clothes on a hickory limb, But don't go near the water! ' " rose Bi's bass voice above the others. SS was methodical. He paced anxiously from one hickory tree... | |
 | 1917 - 218 lapas
...expected to do the work himself or to cause it to be done. I do not believe in telling a man to "hang your clothes on a hickory limb, but don't go near the water." I want him to jump in and swim. Pursuance of this policy throughout the business makes it easy properly... | |
 | Rose Falls Bres - 1917 - 190 lapas
...like the girl who begged permission to go out to swim and was told "Yes, my dearest daughter, hang your clothes on a hickory limb, but don't go near the water," the privilege of the degree of law and the refusal of permission to practice, gives something and witholds... | |
 | Massachusetts. Constitutional Convention - 1918 - 1106 lapas
...advice of the mother in the nursery rhyme: Mother, may I go out to swim? Yes, my dearest daughter. Hang your clothes on a hickory limb, But don't go near the water. [Laughter and Applause.] But seriously, his whole argument is based on what? On a serious distrust... | |
 | Rose Falls Bres - 1918 - 280 lapas
...like the girl who sought permission to go in and swim and was told : "Yes, my dearest daughter, hang your clothes on a hickory limb, but don't go near the water." The degree of law, without the right to practise, grants something but withholds much. Australia has... | |
 | 1918 - 622 lapas
...travel, I believe. 380. "O mother! may I go to swim?" "Oh, yes! my dearest daughter. Just hang your clothes on a hickory limb,. But don't go near the water." ' 381. Chicany, chicany, criny, crow, Went to the well to wash a big toe; When she got there, the well... | |
 | Investment Bankers Association of America - 1918 - 328 lapas
...are helping them as that girl was directed who went to swim under the direction of her mother. "Hang your clothes on a hickory limb, but don't go near the water." [Laughter]. Then we have the Jugo-Slavs. The Czecho-Slovak country is to be a republic, a buffer between... | |
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Mother, may I go out to swim?" "Yes, my darling daughter. Hang your clothes on a hickory limb But don't go near the water. 
