Merrythought

"The collection, valued at more than $900,000, included a red bear made by Farnell in 1910 and a Bobby Bruin made by Merrythought in 1936."

Dobe Bites King's Bear 2006

"The collection, valued at more than $900,000, included a red bear made by Farnell in 1910 and a Bobby Bruin made by Merrythought in 1936."

Archive 2006-08-01 2006

Camp, from whence working parties daily moved up the Line by rail to the vicinity of Merrythought Station.

Norman Ten Hundred A Record of the 1st (Service) Bn. Royal Guernsey Light Infantry A. Stanley Blicq

Knight of the Burning Pestle_ (a play by Beaumont and Fletcher, first produced, it is said, in 1611), in which the humorous old Merrythought sings two fragments of this ballad; stanza 5 in Act II.

Ballads of Romance and Chivalry Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - First Series Frank Sidgwick

"'Oh, say can you see by the dawn's early light,'" she began to sing and immediately a large, blooming face rose through a mist of faded whisker at the prow and they saw all the coast of Maine looking down on them from the rail of the _Merrythought_.

The Lovely Lady Mary Hunter Austin 1901

It was for her, in fact, no drop at all but rather as if they had pulled out for a moment into this little shoal of neighbourly interest and comfortable food, the better to look back at the perfect wonder of it, as from the deck of the _Merrythought_ toward the fair front of the ducal palace and the blue domes of St. Mark's behind the rearing lion.

The Lovely Lady Mary Hunter Austin 1901

When they had put him back aboard of the _Merrythought_ they had come to such a pitch among them all, that as the captain leaned above the rail to launch an invitation, he addressed it to Miss Dassonville, as, if not quite the giver of the feast, the mistress of the situation.

The Lovely Lady Mary Hunter Austin 1901

It was very early in the morning when the wedding party which had been reinforced by the consul, the mistress of Casa Frolli, and the minister, who had turned out to be exactly of Mrs. Merrithew's persuasion, went aboard the _Merrythought_, blooming out amazingly in bunting and roses for the occasion.

The Lovely Lady Mary Hunter Austin 1901

Scraps of them are sung by one of the _dramatis personae_, old Merrythought, whose speciality is a damnable iteration of ballad fragments.

A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century 1886

Merrythought is Britain's last surviving teddy bear factory

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