 | 1913 - 640 páginas
...and so was sure at last, That it was Spring herself, had passed. t1o AFTERNOONS KATHERINE BUELL NYE " One for the money, two for the show, three to get ready and — four to go ! " Down from the third step you jumped and lauded in a pile of leaves, where you lay, listening to... | |
 | 1916 - 614 páginas
...the two children sit on two chairs on the opposite side. To add interest to the game the old rhyme, One for the money, Two for the show, Three to get ready, And four to go. is repeated, and at the word go each of the two children starts to pick up one bean bag from the chair... | |
 | Thorne Smith - 1919 - 142 páginas
...role of seconds, and the principals. One bellboy wanted to start (or better, end) the thing by saying: "One for the money, two for the show, three to get ready and four to go." I objected to this on the grounds of childhood memories the ritual evoked and also because I disliked... | |
 | Dallas Lore Sharp - 1914 - 184 páginas
...turning, looking, bobbing, "quinting," thinking, until he thought his head off, saying all the while — One for the money ; two for the show ; Three to get ready; and four to — get ready to go! But after a while, along toward dusk (and awfully suddenly!) — flop! gobble!... | |
 | Charles Madison Curry, Erle Elsworth Clippinger - 1921 - 716 páginas
...turning, looking, bobbing, "squinting," thinking, until he thought his head off, saying all the while — One for the money; two for the show; Three to get ready; and four to — get ready to go! And this is the very way the wild turkey acts. The naturalists who had a chance... | |
 | James Appleton Bent - 1925 - 134 páginas
...ever, it seems to me. But in Rome, you do as Rome, and the candidate for judge takes a chance. "It's one for the money, two for the show; three to get ready, and four to go." A left handed man is a curiosity, an ambidextrous man is dangerous. It is the summum bonum, however,... | |
 | 1907 - 584 páginas
...Agreed! Let us start from this post. We will run one mile. Come, Mr. Fox, you shall be the judge. Fox One for the money, Two for the show, Three to get ready, Four — to go. Hare (leaps away) Tortoise (plods along) (A few moments intervene.) Hare (hal¡ wa-y... | |
 | Edward Ehrlich Smith, Orton Lowe, Iona Jewell Simpson - 1928 - 458 páginas
...turning, looking, bobbing, "quinting," thinking, until he thought his head off, saying all the while — "One for the money; two for the show; Three to get ready; and four to — get ready to go!" But after a while, along toward dusk (and awfully suddenly!) — -flop! gobble!... | |
 | Tennessee Williams - 1954 - 228 páginas
...not rupture myself ! Ha ha, look here ! she orders. Her black eyes flash as she coils up her muscles. One for the money, two for the show, three to get ready, and four to GO ! 155 Christ Almighty, says Ernie without much breath or conviction, as the mattress sails, yes, almost... | |
 | Paul Sills - 1981 - 76 páginas
.... Fox. (Below APE.) and the fox took a paw . . . (And then they ALL swung him back and forth.) ALL. One for the money, two for the show, three to get ready, and four to go. (And up they tossed him into the air, and he came down on his feet, cs) RABBIT. Yip, my name's Jack... | |
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Isadora, she'd used the principle of "one for the money, two for the show, three to get ready, and four to go," and they'd left her generous endowments that she invested in a hotel at Royal and Saint Peter's streets. 
