...AUTHOR WANTED. — Can any reader of ' N. & Q.' kindly tell me who wrote the following lines ? — A wise old owl lived in an oak ; The more he saw, the leas he spoke ; The lees he spoke, the more he heard. Why can't we be like that old bird? CECIL CLARKE....

...Mr. Frank D. Lyon, Second Deputy, New York State Commission of Highways, will say to you. MR. LYON: "A wise old owl lived in an oak; The more he saw the...less he spoke; The less he spoke the more he heard; I thought I could be somewhat like this wise old bird." I had not expected that I would be called upon...

...not — or was not, as wise as the owl : "There was an owl that lived in an oak, the more he heard the less he spoke; the less he spoke the more he heard — O, if men were all like this wise bird." I think it was Epectetus, who flourished during the first...

...that hangs over the fireplace in the Coolidge home in Northampton, Mass. The legend reads; "A Avise old owl lived in an oak: The more he saw, the less...The less he spoke the more he heard. Why can't we be like that old bird? " Silent and a half-mysterious individual, the former Governor of Massachusetts...

...women. I understand that so far as men are concerned at this convention they'adopted the following rule: A wise old owl lived In an oak. The more he saw the...The less he spoke the more he heard, Why can't we be like that old bird? The men In this convention I notice stand solidly together. Not that there Is...

...'Nursery Rhymes New Set for the Times," the stanza: There was an owl lived in an oak, The more he heard the less he spoke; The less he spoke the more he heard-- O, if mm were all like that wise bird. Do Right. Do right though pain and anguish be thy lot; Thy heart...

...ministry in the Bulfinch Place Church. A Wise Old Owl "A wise old owl lived in an oak; The more he heard the less he spoke, The less he spoke the more he heard. Whv aren't we all more like that bird?" Do and Say Two brothers once lived down this way. And one was...

...RUSSELL R. LORD Battery C, Maryland Field Artillery A wise old owl sat on an oak. The more he heard the less he spoke. The less he spoke the more he heard. Why can't we all be like that bird? — Old Song. True, very true; but have you heard . About the oak on which the bird Would sit...

...Grace Goodhue, called irresistibly away from her vocation to become his bride, lighted the home fire: A wise old owl lived in an oak, The more he saw the...The less he spoke the more he heard; Why can't we be like that old bird? Calvin Coolidge is. Because he has never been a "joiner," though regular in...

...in a drug journal with which you are all familiar. A wise old owl sat in an oak. The more he heard, the less he spoke — The less he spoke, the more he heard Why aren't we more like that old bird? However, when a man has been successful in nearly everything he...