TOPSY-TURVY JO A SONG FROM THE SUDS Queen of my tub, I merrily sing, While the white foam rises high, And sturdily wash and rinse and wring, And fasten the clothes to dry.
I could," said Jo, as she constructed a kite for Demi in the topsy-turvy nursery.
Beth began by rummaging everything out of the big closet where her family resided, but getting tired before half done, she left her establishment topsy-turvy and went to her music, rejoicing that she had no dishes to wash.
That dinner of six courses, compounded out of the desert fowl in various stages of existence, to which his factotum, a man whose imaginative faculty outran his creative power, had given such topsy-turvy yet familiar names.
For I realise that I have really come into a topsy-turvy country; I have come into the country where men do definitely believe that the waving of the trees makes the wind.
In Topsy-Turvy Land Last week, in an idle metaphor, I took the tumbling of trees and the secret energy of the wind as typical of the visible world moving under the violence of the invisible.
THE TOPSY-TURVY DOLL Topsy-Turvy came to me On our last year's Christmas tree.
She's not two, as you'd suppose, When Topsy comes, Miss Turvy goes.
One thing, at least, had drifted clear of the haze within Sir Richard's topsy-turvy brain.
Was it the topsy-turvy going of the men at daybreak that brings you so soon afoot?
We all surely must take what comes in this topsy-turvy world.
No man can go to the land of Topsy Turvy and come back the same--for good or ill it will change him.
The caprice of the spirit of Topsy Turvy is quite wonderful.
I would rather write of those things which happened to Jim Denver himself, before he left the Land of Topsy Turvy for the second time.
Which very silly and frivolous story is topsy-turvy land up to date, or at any rate typical of a large bit of it.
JAMES HENRY 211 PART TWO THE LAND OF THE TOPSY TURVY I.
For Jim Denver the black and white have gone; even the grey of the Land of Topsy Turvy is hazy and indistinct.
You’d better come back here, people are asking after you, and the place seems all topsy-turvy without you.
I dare say he grins like a mischievous little boy who delights in turning things topsy-turvy whenever he has a chance.
He is really a topsy-turvy Hegelian, a political pyrrhonist.
She was now turning the wardrobe topsy-turvy in her search for her shawl.
She was starting for her class when she joined the topsy-turvy group by the gate and waved her creamy hand.
The Topsy-Turvy Concert The performers in this concert, who should be of nearly the same size, take their places behind a sheet stretched across the room at the height of their chins.
Nasse also calls attention to the cruelty and savagery of large numbers of children, traits shown in their liking for horror-stories, in the topsy-turvy conclusion of the stories they tell themselves, in their cruelty to animals.
Illusions, mistakes, and guiltless remorse, were the consequence of this topsy-turvy work.
One of these places we used to call "Topsy-Turvy Castle," and another "Haphazard.
Gradually Topsy Turvy drew nearer to Bibury and despite his weight held his own.
Jack knew the course well, the run in has a curious dip, not far from the winning post, and as Topsy Turvy possessed any amount of stamina it was here he would show to advantage.
Sleath was to wear Sir Lester's jacket, which he had brought out from home, and in which he had ridden Topsy Turvy to victory at Lewes.
I am glad of that; you'll be able to ride Topsy Turvy again at Lewes, and win on him, I hope.
Topsy Turvy looked as fit as hands could make him, but he had top weight, and there were half a dozen good horses in the race.
Nearer and nearer Topsy Turvy stole up to Bibury, until they were neck and neck, then came the supreme moment, when, for a second or two, the result hung in the balance.
Captain Seagrave enjoyed racing, but he was not a good judge of horses in running, and he fancied Topsy Turvy ought to be nearer the leaders.
Now he was on Lewes racecourse and felt the wind whistle past his face, and buzz in his ears, as he made a desperate effort to land Topsy Turvy first past the post.
Captain Seagrave patted the horse, and gazed at him admiringly, he thought Topsy Turvy the most beautiful creature he had ever seen; had he lost probably his interest in the animal would have diminished considerably.
Besides, you have not won the race yet, although Caleb says it is a good thing for Topsy Turvy if you ride.
He blessed the name of Topsy Turvy and wondered how Jack Redland had got on, and the skipper.
Jo, as she constructed a kite for Demi, in the topsy-turvy nursery.
So Meg wrestled alone with the refractory sweetmeats all that hot summer day, and at five o'clock sat down in her topsy-turvy kitchen, wrung her bedaubed hands, lifted up her voice and wept.
Give him the lovingest hug that ever was, and kiss yourself a dozen times for your "TOPSY-TURVY JO.
I mean that when you've turned the world quite topsy-turvy you won't know whether you're standing on your head or your heels.
This topsy-turvy progress is fairly swift and is not less in speed to that of an equally fat grub travelling on its legs.
The spectator to whom these topsy-turvy gymnastics are a novelty thinks at first that the creature must have had a fright of some sort and that it is struggling as best it can in the face of danger.
If evolution and environment cause the topsy-turvy progress of the one, I have the right, if words have any meaning whatever, to demand as much of the others, since their organization is so much alike and their mode of life identical.
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