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diff --git a/old/27424.txt b/old/27424.txt deleted file mode 100644 index fdc5e9f..0000000 --- a/old/27424.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,1295 +0,0 @@ -Project Gutenberg's Cautionary Tales for Children, by Hilaire Belloc - -This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with -almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or -re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included -with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org - - -Title: Cautionary Tales for Children - -Author: Hilaire Belloc - -Illustrator: Basil T. Blackwood - -Release Date: December 5, 2008 [EBook #27424] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ASCII - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CAUTIONARY TALES FOR CHILDREN *** - - - - -Produced by Chris Curnow, Joseph Cooper, Anne Storer and -the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at -https://www.pgdp.net - - - - - - - CAUTIONARY TALES FOR CHILDREN - - - - - CAUTIONARY TALES FOR - CHILDREN - - _Designed for the Admonition of Children between the ages - of eight and fourteen years_ - - - Verses by - H. BELLOC - - Pictures by - B. T. B. - - [Illustration] - - - DUCKWORTH - 3 HENRIETTA STREET, LONDON, W.C. - - - - - First published by Eveleigh Nash, 1907 - First published by Gerald Duckworth & Co. Ltd., 1918 - Thirteenth Impression, 1957 - - _All rights reserved_ - - - _Made and Printed in Great Britain by_ - _Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd_ - _London and Edinburgh_ - - - - - DEDICATED - TO - BOBBY, JOHNNY, AND EDDIE - SOMERSET - - - - -INTRODUCTION - - -Upon being asked by a Reader whether the verses contained in this book -were true. - - -[Illustration] - - And is it True? It is not True. - And if it were it wouldn't do, - For people such as me and you - Who pretty nearly all day long - Are doing something rather wrong. - Because if things were really so, - You would have perished long ago, - And I would not have lived to write - The noble lines that meet your sight, - Nor B. T. B. survived to draw - The nicest things you ever saw. - H. B. - - * * * * * - - - - -JIM, - -_Who ran away from his Nurse, and was eaten by a Lion._ - - -[Illustration] - - There was a Boy whose name was Jim; - His Friends were very good to him. - They gave him Tea, and Cakes, and Jam, - And slices of delicious Ham, - And Chocolate with pink inside, - And little Tricycles to ride, - And - -[Illustration] - - read him Stories through and through, - And even took him to the Zoo-- - But there it was the dreadful Fate - Befell him, which I now relate. - - You know--at least you _ought_ to know. - For I have often told you so-- - That Children never are allowed - To leave their Nurses in a Crowd; - - Now this was Jim's especial Foible, - He ran away when he was able, - And on this inauspicious day - He slipped his hand and ran away! - He hadn't gone a yard when-- - -[Illustration] - - Bang! - With open Jaws, a Lion sprang, - And hungrily began to eat - The Boy: beginning at his feet. - - Now just imagine how it feels - When first your toes and then your heels, - And then by gradual degrees, - Your shins and ankles, calves and knees, - Are slowly eaten, bit by bit. - -[Illustration] - - No wonder Jim detested it! - No wonder that he shouted "Hi!" - The Honest Keeper heard his cry, - Though very fat - -[Illustration] - - he almost ran - To help the little gentleman. - "Ponto!" he ordered as he came - (For Ponto was the Lion's name), - "Ponto!" he cried, - -[Illustration] - - with angry Frown. - "Let go, Sir! Down, Sir! Put it down!" - - The Lion made a sudden Stop, - He let the Dainty Morsel drop, - And slunk reluctant to his Cage, - Snarling with Disappointed Rage - But when he bent him over Jim, - The Honest Keeper's - -[Illustration] - - Eyes were dim. - The Lion having reached his Head, - The Miserable Boy was dead! - -[Illustration] - - When Nurse informed his Parents, they - Were more Concerned than I can say:-- - His Mother, as She dried her eyes, - Said, "Well--it gives me no surprise, - He would not do as he was told!" - His Father, who was self-controlled, - Bade all the children round attend - To James' miserable end, - And always keep a-hold of Nurse - For fear of finding something worse. - - - - -HENRY KING, - -_Who chewed bits of String, and was early cut off in Dreadful Agonies._ - - - The Chief Defect of Henry King - Was - -[Illustration] - - chewing little bits of String. - At last he swallowed some which tied - Itself in ugly Knots inside. - -[Illustration] - - Physicians of the Utmost Fame - Were called at once; but when they came - They answered, - -[Illustration] - - as they took their Fees, - "There is no Cure for this Disease. - Henry will very soon be dead." - His Parents stood about his Bed - Lamenting his Untimely Death, - When Henry, with his Latest Breath, - Cried-- - "Oh, my Friends, be warned by me, - -[Illustration] - - That Breakfast, Dinner, Lunch and Tea - Are all the Human Frame requires ..." - With that the Wretched Child expires. - - - - -MATILDA, - -_Who told Lies, and was Burned to Death._ - - - Matilda told such Dreadful Lies, - -[Illustration] - - It made one Gasp and Stretch one's Eyes; - Her Aunt, who, from her Earliest Youth, - Had kept a Strict Regard for Truth, - -[Illustration] - - Attempted to Believe Matilda: - The effort very nearly killed her, - And would have done so, had not She - Discovered this Infirmity. - For once, towards the Close of Day, - Matilda, growing tired of play, - And finding she was left alone, - Went tiptoe - -[Illustration] - - to - the Telephone - And summoned the Immediate Aid - Of London's Noble Fire-Brigade. - Within an hour the Gallant Band - Were pouring in on every hand, - From Putney, Hackney Downs and Bow, - With Courage high and Hearts a-glow - They galloped, roaring through the Town, - -[Illustration] - - "Matilda's House is Burning Down!" - Inspired by British Cheers and Loud - Proceeding from the Frenzied Crowd, - They ran their ladders through a score - Of windows on the Ball Room Floor; - And took Peculiar Pains to Souse - The Pictures up and down the House, - -[Illustration] - - Until Matilda's Aunt succeeded - In showing them they were not needed - And even then she had to pay - To get the Men to go away! - - * * * - - It happened that a few Weeks later - Her Aunt was off to the Theatre - To see that Interesting Play - _The Second Mrs. Tanqueray._ - -[Illustration] - - She had refused to take her Niece - To hear this Entertaining Piece: - A Deprivation Just and Wise - To Punish her for Telling Lies. - That Night a Fire _did_ break out-- - You should have heard Matilda Shout! - You should have heard her Scream and Bawl, - And throw the window up and call - To People passing in the Street-- - (The rapidly increasing Heat - Encouraging her to obtain - Their confidence)--but all in vain! - For every time She shouted "Fire!" - -[Illustration] - - They only answered "Little Liar!" - And therefore when her Aunt returned, - Matilda, and the House, were Burned. - -[Illustration] - - - - -FRANKLIN HYDE, - -_Who caroused in the Dirt and was corrected by His Uncle._ - - -[Illustration] - - His Uncle came on Franklin Hyde - Carousing in the Dirt. - He Shook him hard from Side to Side - And - -[Illustration] - - Hit him till it Hurt, - - Exclaiming, with a Final Thud, - "Take - -[Illustration] - - that! Abandoned Boy! - For Playing with Disgusting Mud - As though it were a Toy!" - - -MORAL - - From Franklin Hyde's adventure, learn - To pass your Leisure Time - In Cleanly Merriment, and turn - From Mud and Ooze and Slime - And every form of Nastiness-- - But, on the other Hand, - Children in ordinary Dress - May always play with Sand. - -[Illustration] - - - - -GODOLPHIN HORNE, - -_Who was cursed with the Sin of Pride, and Became a Boot-Black._ - - -[Illustration] - - Godolphin Horne was Nobly Born; - He held the Human Race in Scorn, - And lived with all his Sisters where - His father lived, in Berkeley Square. - And oh! the Lad was Deathly Proud! - He never shook your Hand or Bowed, - But merely smirked and nodded - -[Illustration] - - thus: - How perfectly ridiculous! - Alas! That such Affected Tricks - Should flourish in a Child of Six! - (For such was Young Godolphin's age). - - Just then, the Court required a Page, - Whereat - -[Illustration] - - the Lord High Chamberlain - (The Kindest and the Best of Men), - He went good-naturedly and - -[Illustration] - - took - A Perfectly Enormous Book - Called _People Qualified to Be - Attendant on His Majesty_, - And murmured, as he scanned the list - (To see that no one should be missed), - "There's - -[Illustration] - - William Coutts has got the Flue, - -[Illustration] - - And Billy Higgs would never do, - -[Illustration] - - And Guy de Vere is far too young, - -[Illustration] - - And ... wasn't D'Alton's Father hung? - And as for Alexander Byng!-- ... - I think I know the kind of thing, - A Churchman, cleanly, nobly born, - Come - let us say Godolphin Horne?" - But hardly had he said the word - When Murmurs of Dissent were heard. - The King of Iceland's Eldest Son - Said, "Thank you! I am taking none!" - The Aged Duchess of Athlone - Remarked, in her sub-acid tone, - "I doubt if He is what we need!" - With which the Bishops all agreed; - And even Lady Mary Flood - (_So_ Kind, and oh! so _really_ good) - Said, "No! He wouldn't do at all, - He'd make us feel a lot too small," - The Chamberlain said, - " ... Well, well, well! - No doubt you're right.... One cannot tell!" - He took his Gold and Diamond Pen - And - -[Illustration] - - Scratched Godolphin out again. - So now Godolphin is the Boy - Who blacks the Boots at the Savoy. - -[Illustration] - - - - -ALGERNON, - -_Who played with a Loaded Gun, and, on missing his Sister was -reprimanded by his Father._ - - - Young Algernon, the Doctor's Son, - Was - -[Illustration] - - playing with a Loaded Gun. - He pointed it towards his sister, - Aimed very carefully, but - -[Illustration] - - Missed her! - - His Father, who was standing near, - -[Illustration] - - The Loud Explosion chanced to Hear, - -[Illustration] - - And reprimanded Algernon - For playing with a Loaded Gun. - - - - -HILDEBRAND, - -_Who was frightened by a Passing Motor, and was brought to Reason._ - - -[Illustration] - - "Oh, Murder! What was that, Papa!" - "My child, - It was a Motor-Car, - A Most Ingenious Toy! - -[Illustration] - - Designed to Captivate and Charm - Much rather than to rouse Alarm - In any English Boy. - - "What would your Great Grandfather who - -[Illustration] - - Was Aide-de-Camp to General Brue, - And lost a leg at - -[Illustration] - - Waterloo, - And - -[Illustration] - - Quatre-Bras and - -[Illustration] - - Ligny too! - And died at Trafalgar!-- - -[Illustration] - - What would he have remarked to hear - His Young Descendant shriek with fear, - Because he happened to be near - A Harmless Motor-Car! - But do not fret about it! Come! - We'll off to Town - -[Illustration] - - And purchase some!" - - - - -LORD LUNDY, - -_Who was too Freely Moved to Tears, and thereby ruined his Political -Career._ - - -[Illustration] - - Lord Lundy from his earliest years - Was far too freely moved to Tears. - For instance if his Mother said, - "Lundy! It's time to go to Bed!" - He bellowed like a Little Turk. - Or if - -[Illustration] - - his father Lord Dunquerque - Said "Hi!" in a Commanding Tone, - "Hi, Lundy! Leave the Cat alone!" - Lord Lundy, letting go its tail, - Would raise so terrible a wail - As moved - His - Grandpapa - the - -[Illustration] - - Duke - To utter the severe rebuke: - "When I, Sir! was a little Boy, - An Animal was not a Toy!" - - His father's Elder Sister, who - Was married to a Parvenoo, - -[Illustration] - - Confided to Her Husband, "Drat! - The Miserable, Peevish Brat! - Why don't they drown the Little Beast?" - Suggestions which, to say the least, - Are not what we expect to hear - From Daughters of an English Peer. - His grandmamma, His Mother's Mother, - Who had some dignity or other, - The Garter, or no matter what, - I can't remember all the Lot! - Said "Oh! that I were Brisk and Spry - To give him that for which to cry!" - (An empty wish, alas! for she - -[Illustration] - - Was Blind and nearly ninety-three). - - The - -[Illustration] - - Dear Old Butler - thought--but there! - I really neither know nor care - For what the Dear Old Butler thought! - In my opinion, Butlers ought - To know their place, and not to play - The Old Retainer night and day - I'm getting tired and so are you, - Let's cut the Poem into two! - - * * * - - - - -LORD LUNDY - -(_SECOND CANTO_) - - - It happened to Lord Lundy then, - As happens to so many men: - Towards the age of twenty-six, - They shoved him into politics; - In which profession he commanded - The income that his rank demanded - In turn as Secretary for - India, the Colonies, and War. - But very soon his friends began - To doubt if he were quite the man: - Thus, if a member rose to say - (As members do from day to day), - -[Illustration] - - "Arising out of that reply ...!" - -[Illustration] - - Lord Lundy would begin to cry. - A Hint at harmless little jobs - Would shake him with convulsive sobs. - - While as for Revelations, these - Would simply bring him to his knees, - And leave him whimpering like a child. - It drove his Colleagues raving wild! - They let him sink from Post to Post, - From fifteen hundred at the most - To eight, and barely six--and then - To be Curator of Big Ben!... - And finally there came a Threat - To oust him from the Cabinet! - - The Duke--his aged grand-sire--bore - The shame till he could bear no more. - He rallied his declining powers, - Summoned the youth to Brackley Towers, - And bitterly addressed him thus-- - "Sir! you have disappointed us! - We had intended you to be - The next Prime Minister but three: - The stocks were sold; the Press was squared: - The Middle Class was quite prepared. - But as it is!... My language fails! - -[Illustration] - - Go out and govern New South Wales!" - - * * * - - The Aged Patriot groaned and died: - And gracious! how Lord Lundy cried! - -[Illustration] - - - - -REBECCA, - -_Who slammed Doors for Fun and Perished Miserably._ - - - A Trick that everyone abhors - In Little Girls is slamming Doors. - A - -[Illustration] - - Wealthy Banker's - Little Daughter - -[Illustration] - - Who lived in Palace Green, Bayswater - (By name Rebecca Offendort), - Was given to this Furious Sport. - - She would deliberately go - -[Illustration] - - And Slam the door like - Billy-Ho! - To make - her - -[Illustration] - - Uncle Jacob start. - She was not really bad at heart, - But only rather rude and wild: - She was an aggravating child.... - - It happened that a Marble Bust - Of Abraham was standing just - Above the Door this little Lamb - Had carefully prepared to Slam, - And Down it came! It knocked her flat! - It laid her out! She looked like that. - -[Illustration] - - * * * - - Her funeral Sermon (which was long - And followed by a Sacred Song) - Mentioned her Virtues, it is true, - But dwelt upon her Vices too, - And showed the Dreadful End of One - Who goes and slams the door for Fun. - - * * * - - The children who were brought to hear - The awful Tale from far and near - Were much impressed, - and inly swore - They never more would slam the Door. - --As often they had done before. - -[Illustration] - - - - -GEORGE, - -_Who played with a Dangerous Toy, and suffered a Catastrophe of -considerable Dimensions._ - - - When George's Grandmamma was told - -[Illustration] - - That George had been as good as Gold, - She Promised in the Afternoon - To buy him an _Immense BALLOON_. - And - -[Illustration] - - so she did; but when it came, - It got into the candle flame, - And being of a dangerous sort - Exploded - -[Illustration] - - with a loud report! - - The Lights went out! The Windows broke! - The Room was filled with reeking smoke. - And in the darkness shrieks and yells - Were mingled with Electric Bells, - And falling masonry and groans, - And crunching, as of broken bones, - And dreadful shrieks, when, worst of all, - The House itself began to fall! - It tottered, shuddering to and fro, - Then crashed into the street below-- - Which happened to be Savile Row. - - * * * - - When Help arrived, among the Dead - -[Illustration] - - Were - - Cousin Mary, - -[Illustration] - - Little Fred, - -[Illustration] - - The Footmen - -[Illustration] - - (both of them), - -[Illustration] - - The Groom, - -[Illustration] - - The man that cleaned the Billiard-Room, - -[Illustration] - - The Chaplain, and - -[Illustration] - - The Still-Room Maid. - And I am dreadfully afraid - That Monsieur Champignon, the Chef, - Will now be - -[Illustration] - - permanently deaf-- - And both his - Aides - -[Illustration] - - are much the same; - While George, who was in part to blame, - Received, you will regret to hear, - A nasty lump - -[Illustration] - - behind the ear. - - -MORAL - - The moral is that little Boys - Should not be given dangerous Toys. - - - - -CHARLES AUGUSTUS FORTESCUE, - -_Who always Did what was Right, and so accumulated an Immense Fortune._ - - - The nicest child I ever knew - Was Charles Augustus Fortescue. - He never lost his cap, or tore - His stockings or his pinafore: - In eating Bread he made no Crumbs, - He was extremely fond of sums, - -[Illustration] - - To which, however, he preferred - The Parsing of a Latin Word-- - He sought, when it was in his power, - For information twice an hour, - And as for finding Mutton-Fat - Unappetising, far from that! - He often, at his Father's Board, - Would beg them, of his own accord, - -[Illustration] - - To give him, if they did not mind, - The Greasiest Morsels they could find-- - His Later Years did not belie - The Promise of his Infancy. - - In Public Life he always tried - To take a judgment Broad and Wide; - -[Illustration] - - In Private, none was more than he - Renowned for quiet courtesy. - He rose at once in his Career, - And long before his Fortieth Year - Had wedded - Fifi, - -[Illustration] - - Only Child - Of Bunyan, First Lord Aberfylde. - He thus became immensely Rich, - And built the Splendid Mansion which - Is called - -[Illustration] - - _"The Cedars, - Muswell Hill,"_ - Where he resides in Affluence still - To show what Everybody might - Become by - - SIMPLY DOING RIGHT. - - - - - -End of Project Gutenberg's Cautionary Tales for Children, by Hilaire Belloc - -*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CAUTIONARY TALES FOR CHILDREN *** - -***** This file should be named 27424.txt or 27424.zip ***** -This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: - https://www.gutenberg.org/2/7/4/2/27424/ - -Produced by Chris Curnow, Joseph Cooper, Anne Storer and -the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at -https://www.pgdp.net - - -Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions -will be renamed. - -Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no -one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation -(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without -permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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