...and fight so well, That's the thing I never could tell. 84 OLD GRIMES ^A OLD GRIMES ALBERT G. GKEENE OLD GRIMES is dead; that good old man, We ne'er shall see him more ; He used to wear a long black coat, All buttoned down before. His heart was open as the day, His feelings...

...of moral qualities with oddities of dress in Albert G. Greene's perennial "Old Grimes" is humorous: Old Grimes is dead, that good old man, — We ne'er shall see him more; He used to wear a long black coat, All buttoned down before. * * * Whene'er he heard the voice of pain,...

...figure that upon his passing away a bard sang, in paraphrase of the lines on "Old Grimes," Old Oilman is dead, that good old man, We ne'er shall see him more; He used to wear a long blue coat All buttoned down before. Upon his demise his widow assumed charge...

...purposes, and his memory has been perpetuated in the verses of Albert C. Green, the first of which follows: "Old Grimes is dead, that good old man, We ne'er shall see him more, He used to wear a long-tailed coat All buttoned down before." During stage coach days there were three...

...excepting their nails, And the tips of their tails, I nstead of two cats, there were n't any. OLD GRIMES Old Grimes is dead, that good old man, We ne'er shall see him more; He used to wear a long brown coat All buttoned down before. A WEEK OF BIRTHDAYS Monday's child is fair...

...How they served the Lord of Glory, Makes me angry while I sing. A SONG THAT WAS SUNG IN EVERY FAMILY Old Grimes is dead, that good old man, We ne'er shall see him more; He used to wear a long black coat All buttoned down before. His heart was open as the day, His feelings...

...thejtarber he wept $ "While his customers slept ,As they waited their turn in the chair OLD GRIMES Old Grimes is dead, that good old man, We ne'er shall see him more; He used to wear a long black coat All buttoned down before. His heart was open as the day, His feelings...

...written before the fact. Kilbourn gives nine stanzas and there were perhaps more; here are four of them: Old Grimes is dead — that good old man, We ne'er shall see him more; He used to wear a long black coat All buttoned down before. He lived in peace with all mankind, In...

...indigent world may be clothed from the trimmings of the vain. GOLDSMITH— Vicar of Wakefidd. Ch. IV. 3 WE HENLEY — Rhymes and He used to wear a long black coat All button'd down before. ALBERT G. GREENE — Old Grimes. (See also...

...first an Inscription in Matherne Churchyard, to the memory of John Lee, who died May 21, 1823: John Lee is dead, that good old man, — We ne'er shall see him more; He used to wear an old drab coat All buttoned down before. The plot thickens. And Bartlett is not done...