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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 <a href = "http://www.gutenberg.org">www.gutenberg.org</a></pre> +<div class="pg"> +<p>Title: The History of Little King Pippin</p> +<p> With an Account of the Melancholy Death of Four Naughty Boys, Who were Devoured by Wild Beasts. And the Wonderful Delivery of Master Harry Harmless, by a Little White Horse.</p> +<p>Author: Thomas Bewick</p> +<p>Release Date: May 12, 2009 [eBook #28768]</p> +<p>Language: English</p> +<p>Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1</p> +<p>***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE HISTORY OF LITTLE KING PIPPIN***</p> +</div> +<p> </p> +<h4>E-text prepared by Meredith Bach<br /> + and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team<br /> + (<a href="http://www.pgdp.net/c/">http://www.pgdp.net</a>)<br /> + from digital material generously made available by<br /> + Internet Archive/American Libraries<br /> + (<a href="http://www.archive.org/details/americana">http://www.archive.org/details/americana</a>)</h4> +<p> </p> +<table border="0" style="background-color: #ccccff;" cellpadding="10"> + <tr> + <td valign="top"> + Note: + </td> + <td> + <span class="pg">Images of the original pages are available through + Internet Archive/American Libraries. See + <a href="http://www.archive.org/details/historyoflittlek00bewiiala"> + http://www.archive.org/details/historyoflittlek00bewiiala</a></span> + </td> + </tr> +</table> +<p> </p> +<hr class="full" /> +<p> </p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_1" id="Page_1">[Pg 1]</a></span></p> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 362px;"> +<img src="images/icover.jpg" width="362" height="600" alt="A King." title="" /> +</div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_2" id="Page_2">[Pg 2]</a></span></p> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> +<img src="images/ifrontis.jpg" width="500" height="496" alt="" title="FRONTISPIECE" /> +</div> + +<div class="centerbox"> +<p>Would you be learned, good, and great,<br /> +Our Hero strive to imitate;<br /> +For Merit was the only Thing<br /> +That made poor Pippin's Son a King. +</p></div> + + + + <h1>THE HISTORY<br /> + + OF LITTLE<br /> + + <i>KING PIPPIN</i>.</h1> + + <h3>With an Account of the Melancholy Death of</h3> + + <h2><i>FOUR NAUGHTY BOYS</i>,</h2> + + <h4>WHO WERE</h4> + + <h3><i>Devoured by Wild Beasts</i>.</h3> + + <h4>AND THE</h4> + + <h3>Wonderful Delivery of Master Harry Harmless,</h3> + + <h4>by a little</h4> + + <h2>WHITE HORSE.</h2> + + <h4>ORNAMENTED WITH CUTS.</h4> + + <p class="center">WELLINGTON:<br /> + + <i>Printed by F. Houlston and Son.</i><br /> + + Price Two-pence.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_3" id="Page_3">[Pg 3]</a></span><br /><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_4" id="Page_4">[Pg 4]</a></span><br /><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_5" id="Page_5">[Pg 5]</a></span></p> + +<hr style="width: 45%;" /> +<h2><br /><br /><i>THE HISTORY</i></h2> + +<h3>OF</h3> + +<h2>LITTLE KING PIPPIN.<br /><br /></h2> +<hr style="width: 45%;" /> + +<p><span class="smcap">Peter Pippin</span> was the son of Gaffer and Gammer Pippin,</p> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;"><i>Who liv'd at the Ivy-house under the hill,</i></span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;"><i>And if they are not gone, they live there still.</i></span><br /> +</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> +<img src="images/i005.jpg" width="500" height="361" alt="" title="Who liv'd at the Ivy-house under the hill" /> +</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_6" id="Page_6">[Pg 6]</a></span></p><p>This is the house, and a pretty little snug place it is, and there is +Peter and his father and mother at the door. Daddy, says Peter, I wish I +could have another pretty little Picture-Book, for I have read Mrs. +Lovechild's Golden Present so often, that I can repeat it without book. +I am very glad to hear it, Peter, says his father, and I wish I could +afford to buy you books as fast as you can learn them. I have been +saving a penny a week these five weeks, to buy the <span class="smcap">LADDER</span> to <span class="smcap">LEARNING</span> +for you: well then, says Peter, I have got a penny, which was given me +this morning by Miss Kitty Kindness, so that will make sixpence: O dear, +I should like vastly to have the Ladder to Learning, and you shall see +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_7" id="Page_7">[Pg 7]</a></span>how fast I will climb up it; pray give me your fivepence, rather, and I +will run to Farmer Giles with it directly, and desire him to bring it +down for me, when he goes to Town next week; and away he ran to Farmer +Giles, and gave him the money to buy the Ladder to Learning. You can't +miss the shop, says Peter, it is just in the midst of the Town, the only +place where all the pretty little books are sold: for, though Peter had +never been in Town, he knew as well as could be, where his old friend +the Publisher lived.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> +<img src="images/i006.jpg" width="500" height="397" alt="" title="where his old friend +the Publisher lived" /> +</div> + +<p>Now a great many silly boys would have spent that penny in apples or +gingerbread, or some such trash, and when they had eaten it, what would +they have been the better for it? Why nothing at all; but Peter did not +lay out his money in such an idle manner; whenever he got a penny, he +bought food for his mind, instead of his belly, and you will find he +afterwards reaped the benefit of it.</p> + +<p>Well, the next week Peter had his new book, and here he sits reading it +under the hedge, where he was sent to keep away the crows from Farmer +Giles's corn; and you see he neither neglected his book nor his work.</p> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;"><i>Away, Away, John Carrion Crow,</i></span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;"><i>Your Master hath enow</i></span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;"><i>Down in his Barley Mow.</i></span><br /> +</p> + +<p>See how he makes them fly, and as soon as<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_8" id="Page_8">[Pg 8]</a></span> they are gone, out he whips +his little book, and reads till they come back again; for Gaffer Pippin, +being but a poor labouring man, could not afford to keep Peter at +school; so he was obliged to go out to work, though he was but six years +old.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> +<img src="images/i008.jpg" width="500" height="402" alt="" title="could not afford to keep Peter at +school" /> +</div> + +<p>But good fortune is generally attendant on good and virtuous actions, +and so it happened to Peter, who was certainly one of the best boys in +the whole country; he always did what his father and mother bid him, not +only without murmuring, but with pleasure in his countenance; he never +went to bed, or got up in the morning, without kneeling down by his +bed-side to say his prayers; nor was he ever<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_9" id="Page_9">[Pg 9]</a></span> known to tell a fib, or +say a naughty word, or to quarrel with his play-fellows.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> +<img src="images/i009.jpg" width="500" height="383" alt="" title="kneeling down by his +bed-side to say his prayers" /> +</div> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> +<img src="images/i010.jpg" width="500" height="378" alt="" title="being met by Lady Bountiful" /> +</div> + +<p>As he was coming home from work one evening, wishing for another new +book, he could not help crying, because he had no money to buy one; so +being met by Lady Bountiful, whose country seat was but a small distance +from the little Ivy-house, she asked him what he cried for? Peter was +afraid to tell at first, lest she should be angry with him; but her +Ladyship insisted on knowing, and Peter was determined never to tell a +fib, so out came the truth. Well, says she, Peter, you need not have +been ashamed to tell me, there is no harm in it; dry up your tears. I +know you are a good boy, very dutiful to your parents,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_10" id="Page_10">[Pg 10]</a></span> and obliging to +every one, and since I find you are so desirous of improving your mind, +you shall not be deprived of the benefit of education because you are +poor; so do you and your father come to me to-morrow morning, and I will +see what I can do for you. Peter returned her Ladyship a great many +thanks, made one of his best bows, and ran home whistling and singing as +merry as a grig. As soon as he got within side the door, Good news, good +news, says he, father; you and I are to go to Lady Bountiful's to +morrow-morning; I believe her Ladyship is going to put me to school: +Peter's head was so full of it, that he scarce slept a wink all the +night, and he got up the next morning at four o'clock, put on his +Sunday<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_11" id="Page_11">[Pg 11]</a></span> clothes, washed his face and hands, combed out his hair, and +looked as brisk as a bee; and about six o'clock, away his father and he +trudged to Lady Bountiful's; as soon as they arrived, they were ordered +into her Ladyship's parlour. Well, says she, Gaffer Pippin, since you +cannot afford to put Peter to school, I will send him at my own expence: +so carry this letter to Mr. Teachum the Schoolmaster, and he will be +taken as much care of as if he were my own son. A thousand blessings on +your Ladyship, says the old man, I hope God Almighty will reward you for +your goodness to my poor boy. It is no more than Peter deserves, says +her Ladyship, and as long as he continues such a good boy, he shall not +want a friend; but make haste away with him, Gaffer Pippin, or you will +not get there before it is dark, for they had near twenty miles to walk: +so taking Peter in his hand, they set off towards the school; but they +had not walked above a mile or two, before they were overtaken by a +gentleman's coach, which stopped as soon as it came up with them, and +the gentleman looking out, asked if that was not little Peter Pippin, +whom he had heard was such a good boy? Yes, Sir, replied Gaffer Pippin, +it is. Indeed, says the gentleman, I thought so, from that good nature +so visible in his countenance: pray, how far are you going? To Mr. +Teachum's School, Sir, replied Peter. A very fortu<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_12" id="Page_12">[Pg 12]</a></span>nate meeting, says +the gentleman, I am going to the very same place with my two sons, so +you shall ride with them in my coach; you need not trouble yourself to +go any farther, Gaffer Pippin; I will take care of your son: so thanking +the gentleman for his kindness, and bestowing his blessing on Peter, the +old man returned home to his work. As soon as Peter was seated in the +coach, the gentleman informed him, he was going to a school where he +would meet with kind usage and good entertainment: you live very well, +says he to his son, don't you, Tommy? Yes, Sir, very well, replied +Tommy, we have apple-pie two or three times a week; then I dare say, you +know how to spell apple-pie, don't you, Tommy? O yes, Sir, ap-pel-pey. +And how do you spell it, Billy? says he to his other son, ap-pel-pye. +And how do you spell it, Peter? ap-ple-pie, Sir: that's right, you are a +good boy, and there is a sixpence for you; and as for you two dunces, I +will take care you shall neither of you have another bit of apple-pie, +till you know how to spell it; and he was as good as his word; for +though all the rest of the boys had apple-pie the next day for dinner, +neither of them were suffered to eat a bit, because they had not learned +to spell it; so they were obliged to sit and look at the rest, like two +blockheads as they were.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> +<img src="images/i013.jpg" width="500" height="355" alt="" title="you are a +good boy" /> +</div> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> +<img src="images/i014.jpg" width="500" height="368" alt="" title="because they had not learned +to spell it" /> +</div> + +<p>The same affable behaviour which had gain<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_13" id="Page_13">[Pg 13]</a></span>ed him the esteem of all his +acquaintance at home, soon made little Peter equally respected at +school; nay, all the good boys were so pleased with the sweetness of his +temper, and the good advice which he always gave them, when any quarrel +or disagreement happened between them, that they came to a resolution to +elect him their King, by the title of the King of the Good Boys, and he +was always afterwards called <span class="smcap">LITTLE KING PIPPIN</span>, (so we shall give him +the same title through the remainder of the history:) and all disputes +between them, of whatever nature, were referred to his decision; and so +great was their respect for their King, and so just were his +determinations on these occasions, that they were always sub<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_14" id="Page_14">[Pg 14]</a></span>mitted to +without murmuring or repining: as a badge of distinction for their new +king, they made a general subscription, and bought him a fine cap +ornamented with a white feather, and round it was engraved in letters of +gold, "Peter Pippin, King of the Good Boys." A few days after Peter was +chosen King, as George Graceless, Neddy Neverpray, and two or three +other boys, as naughty as themselves, were playing at marbles in the +church-yard, George Graceless's brother Jack, who was a very +good-natured little boy, happened to stop his brother George's marble by +accident, upon which he flew into a violent passion, took the Lord's +name in vain, called his brother a fool, and made use of a great many +other<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_15" id="Page_15">[Pg 15]</a></span> wicked expressions, which so shocked Little King Pippin, who was +sitting on a tomb-stone, just by, reading Mrs. Winlove's Lectures, that +he could not forbear speaking to little Graceless; pray, Master +Graceless, says he, do you know the consequence of these shocking +expressions? did you never read in your Bible, that "Whosoever calleth +his brother a fool, is in danger of hell fire?" and don't you know, that +one of the commandments says, "Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord +thy God in vain; for the Lord will not hold him guiltless, that taketh +his name in vain?" Where can you expect to go when you die? Pooh, says +little Graceless, don't tell me any of your nonsensical stuff about +dying, I have many a good year to live yet; do you mind your reading, +and let me alone to my play. Oh fy, oh fy, Master Graceless, says Little +King Pippin, God Almighty, if he pleased, could strike you dead, this +moment, and however secure you may think yourself, be assured,</p> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;"><i>There's not a sin that you commit,</i></span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;"><i>Nor wicked word you say,</i></span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;"><i>But in God's dreadful book 'tis writ</i></span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;"><i>Against the judgment day.</i></span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;"><i>There's not a fib that e'er was told,</i></span><br /> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_16" id="Page_16">[Pg 16]</a></span><span style="margin-left: 2em;"><i>Or evil thought arose,</i></span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;"><i>But in that book is safe inroll'd,</i></span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;"><i>As that day will disclose.</i></span><br /> +</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> +<img src="images/i016.jpg" width="500" height="369" alt="" title="and away he went singing" /> +</div> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> +<img src="images/i017.jpg" width="500" height="398" alt="" title="and away he went singing" /> +</div> + +<p>Shah, says he, I am not afraid of that, and away he went singing,</p> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;"><i>Let us be merry and gay,</i></span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;"><i>And drive away care and sorrow,</i></span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;"><i>We'll laugh and sing to-day,</i></span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;"><i>And talk about death to-morrow,</i></span><br /> +</p> + +<p>as thoughtless and unconcerned as if he had done nothing amiss; and now +the clock striking two, which was the hour for returning to school, +Billy Meanwell, Sammy Sober, Bobby Bright, Tommy Telltruth, and all the +rest of the good boys, with Little King Pippin at their head, ran as +fast as they could, to try who should get into the school first; but +George<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_17" id="Page_17">[Pg 17]</a></span> Graceless and his companions, being on the other side of the +church, saw nothing of their running into school, and their minds were +so taken up with play, that they never heard the clock strike, and +continued playing so long till they were afraid to go in; so at last +they agreed to play truant, and they all went together a bird's nesting. +The first nest they found was a poor little Robin Redbreast's, which one +of them, whose name was Harry Harmless, and who was not so hard-heated +as the rest, (indeed his chief fault was keeping company with these +wicked boys,) persuaded them not to destroy; for, says he, a Robin +Redbreast is such a pretty innocent bird, that<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_18" id="Page_18">[Pg 18]</a></span> I can't find in my heart +to do it any harm, and it was that good-natured bird that covered over +the poor little Children in the Wood with leaves, when they were starved +to death: Pooh, says George Graceless and Tom Tiger, what signifies +talking such stuff as that, and down they pulled the poor Robin's eggs, +nest and all, and left the pretty little bird making such piteous moans, +as would have melted a heart of stone; but they turned a deaf ear to his +tender cries, and went on destroying every nest they could find, without +paying any distinction to the most innocent of the feathered race: at +last they came to a turtle dove's nest, which was on the top of a great +high tree that hung over a deep river; George Graceless, always the most +forward to undertake any dangerous or mischievous exploit, directly +pulled off his coat and waistcoat, and climbed up the tree, but just as +he got to the top, and was stretching out his wicked hand to take away +the turtle dove's eggs, crack goes the limb, and down he fell into the +river! oh save me, save me, I shall be drowned; oh, that I had attended +to the good advice of Little King Pippin, cried he, and with these +words, down he went to the bottom, and was never seen more. The rest of +his companions began now to see the folly and wickedness of neglecting +their books for idle mischief, and heartily repented that they<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_19" id="Page_19">[Pg 19]</a></span> had not +stayed at school instead of playing truant; but dreading to appear +before their master, both on account of their own naughty behaviour, and +the melancholy accident which had happened to George Graceless, they +strolled about from one field to another, till it was quite dark, and +then went and laid themselves under some bushes in an adjacent wood, +where they fell asleep; but alas! their sleep was very short, for in +less than an hour, they were awakened with such terrible howlings of +wild beasts as was scarce ever heard, tigers, wolves, and lions, hunting +for their prey, with eyes that glared like balls of fire, rushed by them +every instant: in this dreadful situation, expecting every moment to be +torn in pieces, Harry Harmless requested them all to betake<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_20" id="Page_20">[Pg 20]</a></span> themselves +to prayer to God Almighty to guard and protect them from the terrible +dangers which now surrounded them. But oh, shame to tell, not one of +them, except Harry Harmless himself, could repeat, or indeed had ever +learned a single prayer; upon which, Harry, justly concluding, that +those naughty boys who had so totally neglected their duty to their +Creator, could have no claim whatever to his protection, thought he +should be in more safety alone than in such wicked company, therefore +moved to a distance from them, and kneeled down to prayer by himself; +and he had not left them but a few minutes before two monstrous lions +came and devoured every one of them: after they had eaten these wicked<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_21" id="Page_21">[Pg 21]</a></span> +boys, they went up to Harry Harmless, but instead of devouring him, as +they had the others, they seemed as fond of him as a dam of her young, +licked his face and hands with their tongues, and then lay down quietly +upon the ground by his side: for God Almighty had heard his prayers, as +he always will those of all good little boys and girls, and had +converted the natural rage and fierceness of these dreadful beasts into +the meekness and gentleness of lambs. When morning came, Harry found he +had wandered so far from home, that he could not tell which way to +return, but as he was sitting on the side of a bank, reflecting on the +danger and folly of keeping such naughty company, and the many wicked +ways little boys are too often undesignedly led into by that means, he +was surprised by the neighing of a horse, and looking round, there was +the prettiest milk-white little creature galloping towards him that ever +was seen, with a little bridle on, and a saddle and stirrups on his +back, and running directly up to Harry, he fell down on his knees, +seemingly to invite him to get on his back; Harry was almost afraid to +trust himself on the little horse at first, but recollecting that the +same Almighty hand which had rescued him from the paws of the lions, +could protect him from every other danger, he mounted on his back, and<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_22" id="Page_22">[Pg 22]</a></span> +he was no sooner seated, but the pretty little thing galloped away with +him as fast as he could run, and never stopt till he brought him within +a little distance of his home; when dropping down again on his knees, in +the same manner as when he took him up, Harry imagining it to be a +signal for him to dismount, immediately alighted, and letting go the +bridle, the little white horse set off neighing and galloping, as when +he first found him, and was out of sight in an instant. As soon as the +account of the unhappy death of George Graceless and his companions was +made known to their master, he was obliged to dispatch a messenger to +inform their parents, and the shocking news had such a melancholy +effect<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_23" id="Page_23">[Pg 23]</a></span> on George Graceless's papa and mamma, that they both died of a +broken heart within a month afterwards; and the parents of the other +naughty boys were so greatly afflicted with their loss, that it rendered +the remainder of their lives miserable. Such were the fatal consequences +of these naughty boys neglecting that duty which every one owes to his +Maker; and which, above all things, should never be forgotten; for, had +they learned their prayers, and said them every evening and morning, +they would not have been at a loss to have repeated them when they were +surrounded by the wild beasts; and then, no doubt, God Almighty would +have saved them, as well as Harry Harmless; and instead of being the +means of breaking their parents' hearts, they might have lived to have +been the comfort and support of their old age, and perhaps have become +as great men as you will find Little King Pippin did.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> +<img src="images/i019.jpg" width="500" height="360" alt="" title="at school instead of playing truant" /> +</div> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> +<img src="images/i020.jpg" width="500" height="385" alt="" title=" before two monstrous lions" /> +</div> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> +<img src="images/i022.jpg" width="500" height="385" alt="" title="little white horse set off neighing and galloping" /> +</div> + +<p>As Little King Pippin grew in years he rose in the esteem of every one +who knew him, and his acquaintance was courted by all the good boys in +the school, who frequently invited him, at the request of their parents, +to spend the holidays with them. Among others, he went one Christmas +with the son of Sir William Worthy, a wealthy London merchant. This +gentleman, in whom merit always found<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_24" id="Page_24">[Pg 24]</a></span> a friend, was so highly pleased +with the engaging affability of King Pippin's disposition, as well as +the great proficiency he had made in the several branches of learning, +that he thenceforward took him under his protection, and as soon as he +arrived at a proper age, placed him in his counting-house, in which +situation be conducted himself so much to Sir William's satisfaction, +that, having occasion to send out a person to superintend some +plantations which he possessed abroad, King Pippin was fixed on for that +purpose. A ship being provided, and every thing in readiness for the +voyage, after taking a most affectionate leave of his parents and +friends, he set sail for these plantations, which were situated in one +of the West India<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_25" id="Page_25">[Pg 25]</a></span> islands. About a fortnight after their departure, +they had the misfortune to lose the Captain's son, a little boy about +eight or nine years of age, who fell from the ship's side, when she was +under full sail, and was drowned. This melancholy accident is another +striking instance of the unhappy consequences of children's disobedience +to their parents. The little boy, here alluded to, used frequently to +get on the outside of the ship, and let himself down by a rope to paddle +in the sea; he had been several times detected by his papa, in playing +those frolics; and as often reproved for it, and warned of the danger, +but to little purpose; for he was one of those headstrong undutiful +children (of whom I fear there are too many) who, as soon as they are +out of their parents' sight, forget the good advices and prudent +cautions which have been given them, and pursue each idle fancy that +enters their heads, without once considering either the folly or danger +of it, till they are convinced, by fatal experience, that their parents +are much more capable of judging what is proper for them than they are +for themselves.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> +<img src="images/i024.jpg" width="500" height="378" alt="" title="he set sail for these plantations" /> +</div> + +<p>After this accident, they proceeded on their voyage for several weeks, +with very favourable weather, and had got so near their destined +harbour, that they expected to have made it the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_26" id="Page_26">[Pg 26]</a></span> next day, but in this +they were unhappily disappointed; for about ten o'clock in the evening +they were overtaken by the most violent storm that the oldest sailor on +board had ever remembered. The waves, which broke mountains high over +the ship, washed several of the sailors overboard, and the rest were so +dispirited and fatigued, that they were obliged to let the ship drive at +the mercy of the wind and waves.</p> + +<p>The next morning, as soon as it was light, they perceived that the ship +was carried towards the land with the greatest rapidity; and, as they +every moment expected, about nine o'clock she struck upon a rock; the +boat was immediately hoisted out, and every one on board crowded into +her, except King Pippin, who imagining, that being overloaded, she could +not possibly reach the shore, preferred remaining on the wreck. A very +short time convinced him, that his suspicion was too well grounded; for +before the boat was out of sight, she overset, and every one on board +perished.</p> + +<p>In this dangerous situation, expecting that the ship would go to pieces +every moment, he continued till the afternoon, when the storm began to +abate, and the sea became tolerably calm, and by the ebb of the tide the +ship was<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_27" id="Page_27">[Pg 27]</a></span> much nearer the land than when she first struck. King Pippin +now conceived hopes of gaining the shore, by means of a raft which he +had constructed in the best manner he could; and, furnishing himself +with such things as he thought might be useful to him on shore, he let +down his raft into the sea, and placing himself on it, began to paddle +towards the land; he had proceeded about a mile with great difficulty, +when a sudden gust of wind instantly overset his whole cargo, and he was +obliged to swim near a mile farther before he could reach the shore.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> +<img src="images/i027.jpg" width="500" height="352" alt="" title="and he was +obliged to swim near a mile" /> +</div> + +<p>After returning thanks to God Almighty for his great goodness towards +him, in preserving<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_28" id="Page_28">[Pg 28]</a></span> him alone of the whole ship's crew, King Pippin +began to consider in what manner he should spend the night, which now +drew on apace. Not knowing but there might be wild beasts on the island, +he was for some time at a loss how to secure himself, till recollecting +he had read, that Robinson Crusoe, when he was cast away on an +uninhabited island, had spent the night on the top of a thick tree, he +had recourse to the same method, and after the great fatigue he had +undergone, slept very soundly till morning, when he descended from his +new lodging, and walked several miles about the island, to discover if +it was inhabited, but not being able to find the least traces of any +human creature, he returned towards the sea-side, in hopes that some of +the ship's provisions might be driven on shore; in this too, however, he +was disappointed, and hunger obliged him to set about inventing a snare +for taking some of the goats, of which he had seen great numbers in his +morning walk, but they were so exceeding wild, that it proved a very +laborious task, and employed the greatest part of King Pippin's time +during his stay on the island; indeed he was sometimes so unsuccessful, +that a few vegetables alone were his only sustenance for days together. +Some months after he had been cast away on this<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_29" id="Page_29">[Pg 29]</a></span> solitary place, being +one day greatly fatigued, by a fruitless pursuit of some of these goats, +he sat himself down on the side of a hill, and looking with desponding +eyes towards the sea, he flattered himself that he saw something like a +sail at a great distance; after gazing attentively for several hours, +without once suffering his attention to be diverted from the wished for +object, he was at last, to his unspeakable joy, convinced that it was a +ship, and that she was making directly for the land: about five o'clock +in the evening, they came to anchor at a small distance from the shore, +and having hoisted out their boat, rowed directly into a little creek +near the edge of a wood, where King Pippin, having descended from the +hill, had concealed himself: as soon as they had landed, perceiving as +well by their dress as their language, that they were his countrymen, he +discovered himself to them, and was received with the greatest kindness +and humanity; and to add to the happiness of his delivery, he found upon +enquiry, that they were going to the same island for which he had been +originally bound, but had been driven so far out of their course by a +violent storm which they had encountered a few days before. Having +repaired their vessel, and procured such refreshments as the place +afforded,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_30" id="Page_30">[Pg 30]</a></span> in about a week they again set sail, and arrived at their +destined port without any farther accident.</p> + +<p>Immediately upon their arrival, King Pippin took upon him the care of +Sir William Worthy's estate, and adopted such prudent regulations in the +management of it, as rendered it in a few years almost double in its +value; in return for which care and assiduity, he was taken into +partnership by Sir William. This good fortune, however, did not fill his +mind with that pride and ostentation too frequently attendant on success +in life; King Pippin still continued the same engaging respect to his +acquaintance, and the same courteous affability to his inferiors, which +had marked his character in every sphere of life, nor did it pass +unrewarded; for the governor of the island falling a sacrifice to those +pestilential diseases which are common to hot climates, the inhabitants +unanimously joined in a petition to the King requesting him to appoint +King Pippin his successor to the government, recommending him as a +person, endowed with every qualification requisite to the happiness of +his subjects. Though virtue is generally a poor recommendation at court, +in this instance it succeeded, and King Pippin was immediately appointed +to the government of the island.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_31" id="Page_31">[Pg 31]</a></span></p> + +<p>It would fill a volume to relate the numerous acts of justice, humanity, +and benevolence, performed by him during his government; suffice it +therefore to say, that under so good a governor, the people enjoyed +freedom, plenty, content, and happiness.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 250px;"> +<img src="images/i031.jpg" width="250" height="183" alt="" title="FINIS" /> +</div> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 338px;"> +<img src="images/iback.jpg" width="338" height="600" alt="Bonaparte." title="" /> + +</div> + +<p class="center">HOULSTONS, PRINTERS.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_32" id="Page_32">[Pg 32]</a></span></p> + +<p> </p> +<p> </p> +<hr class="full" /> +<div class="pg"> +<p>***END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE HISTORY OF LITTLE KING PIPPIN***</p> +<p>******* This file should be named 28768-h.txt or 28768-h.zip *******</p> +<p>This and all associated files of various formats will be found in:<br /> +<a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/8/7/6/28768">http://www.gutenberg.org/2/8/7/6/28768</a></p> +<p>Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed.</p> + +<p>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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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: The History of Little King Pippin + With an Account of the Melancholy Death of Four Naughty Boys, Who were Devoured by Wild Beasts. And the Wonderful Delivery of Master Harry Harmless, by a Little White Horse. + + +Author: Thomas Bewick + + + +Release Date: May 12, 2009 [eBook #28768] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII) + + +***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE HISTORY OF LITTLE KING +PIPPIN*** + + +E-text prepared by Meredith Bach and the Project Gutenberg Online +Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from digital material +generously made available by Internet Archive/American Libraries +(http://www.archive.org/details/americana) + + + +Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this + file which includes the original illustrations. + See 28768-h.htm or 28768-h.zip: + (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/28768/28768-h/28768-h.htm) + or + (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/28768/28768-h.zip) + + + Images of the original pages are available through + Internet Archive/American Libraries. See + http://www.archive.org/details/historyoflittlek00bewiiala + + + + + +[Illustration: A King.] + +[Illustration: FRONTISPIECE. + + Would you be learned, good, and great, + Our Hero strive to imitate; + For Merit was the only Thing + That made poor Pippin's Son a King.] + +THE HISTORY + +OF LITTLE + +_KING PIPPIN_. + +With an Account of the Melancholy Death of + +_FOUR NAUGHTY BOYS_, + +WHO WERE + +_Devoured by Wild Beasts_. + +AND THE + +Wonderful Delivery of Master Harry Harmless, + +by a little + +WHITE HORSE. + +ORNAMENTED WITH CUTS. + + + + + + + +WELLINGTON: +Printed by F. Houlston and Son. + +Price Two-pence. + + + + +_THE HISTORY_ + +OF + +LITTLE KING PIPPIN. + + + + +PETER PIPPIN was the son of Gaffer and Gammer Pippin, + + _Who liv'd at the Ivy-house under the hill, + And if they are not gone, they live there still._ + +[Illustration] + +This is the house, and a pretty little snug place it is, and there is +Peter and his father and mother at the door. Daddy, says Peter, I wish I +could have another pretty little Picture-Book, for I have read Mrs. +Lovechild's Golden Present so often, that I can repeat it without book. +I am very glad to hear it, Peter, says his father, and I wish I could +afford to buy you books as fast as you can learn them. I have been +saving a penny a week these five weeks, to buy the LADDER to LEARNING +for you: well then, says Peter, I have got a penny, which was given me +this morning by Miss Kitty Kindness, so that will make sixpence: O dear, +I should like vastly to have the Ladder to Learning, and you shall see +how fast I will climb up it; pray give me your fivepence, rather, and I +will run to Farmer Giles with it directly, and desire him to bring it +down for me, when he goes to Town next week; and away he ran to Farmer +Giles, and gave him the money to buy the Ladder to Learning. You can't +miss the shop, says Peter, it is just in the midst of the Town, the only +place where all the pretty little books are sold: for, though Peter had +never been in Town, he knew as well as could be, where his old friend +the Publisher lived. + +[Illustration] + +Now a great many silly boys would have spent that penny in apples or +gingerbread, or some such trash, and when they had eaten it, what would +they have been the better for it? Why nothing at all; but Peter did not +lay out his money in such an idle manner; whenever he got a penny, he +bought food for his mind, instead of his belly, and you will find he +afterwards reaped the benefit of it. + +Well, the next week Peter had his new book, and here he sits reading it +under the hedge, where he was sent to keep away the crows from Farmer +Giles's corn; and you see he neither neglected his book nor his work. + + _Away, Away, John Carrion Crow, + Your Master hath enow + Down in his Barley Mow._ + +See how he makes them fly, and as soon as they are gone, out he whips +his little book, and reads till they come back again; for Gaffer Pippin, +being but a poor labouring man, could not afford to keep Peter at +school; so he was obliged to go out to work, though he was but six years +old. + +[Illustration] + +But good fortune is generally attendant on good and virtuous actions, +and so it happened to Peter, who was certainly one of the best boys in +the whole country; he always did what his father and mother bid him, not +only without murmuring, but with pleasure in his countenance; he never +went to bed, or got up in the morning, without kneeling down by his +bed-side to say his prayers; nor was he ever known to tell a fib, or +say a naughty word, or to quarrel with his play-fellows. + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + +As he was coming home from work one evening, wishing for another new +book, he could not help crying, because he had no money to buy one; so +being met by Lady Bountiful, whose country seat was but a small distance +from the little Ivy-house, she asked him what he cried for? Peter was +afraid to tell at first, lest she should be angry with him; but her +Ladyship insisted on knowing, and Peter was determined never to tell a +fib, so out came the truth. Well, says she, Peter, you need not have +been ashamed to tell me, there is no harm in it; dry up your tears. I +know you are a good boy, very dutiful to your parents, and obliging to +every one, and since I find you are so desirous of improving your mind, +you shall not be deprived of the benefit of education because you are +poor; so do you and your father come to me to-morrow morning, and I will +see what I can do for you. Peter returned her Ladyship a great many +thanks, made one of his best bows, and ran home whistling and singing as +merry as a grig. As soon as he got within side the door, Good news, good +news, says he, father; you and I are to go to Lady Bountiful's to +morrow-morning; I believe her Ladyship is going to put me to school: +Peter's head was so full of it, that he scarce slept a wink all the +night, and he got up the next morning at four o'clock, put on his +Sunday clothes, washed his face and hands, combed out his hair, and +looked as brisk as a bee; and about six o'clock, away his father and he +trudged to Lady Bountiful's; as soon as they arrived, they were ordered +into her Ladyship's parlour. Well, says she, Gaffer Pippin, since you +cannot afford to put Peter to school, I will send him at my own expence: +so carry this letter to Mr. Teachum the Schoolmaster, and he will be +taken as much care of as if he were my own son. A thousand blessings on +your Ladyship, says the old man, I hope God Almighty will reward you for +your goodness to my poor boy. It is no more than Peter deserves, says +her Ladyship, and as long as he continues such a good boy, he shall not +want a friend; but make haste away with him, Gaffer Pippin, or you will +not get there before it is dark, for they had near twenty miles to walk: +so taking Peter in his hand, they set off towards the school; but they +had not walked above a mile or two, before they were overtaken by a +gentleman's coach, which stopped as soon as it came up with them, and +the gentleman looking out, asked if that was not little Peter Pippin, +whom he had heard was such a good boy? Yes, Sir, replied Gaffer Pippin, +it is. Indeed, says the gentleman, I thought so, from that good nature +so visible in his countenance: pray, how far are you going? To Mr. +Teachum's School, Sir, replied Peter. A very fortunate meeting, says +the gentleman, I am going to the very same place with my two sons, so +you shall ride with them in my coach; you need not trouble yourself to +go any farther, Gaffer Pippin; I will take care of your son: so thanking +the gentleman for his kindness, and bestowing his blessing on Peter, the +old man returned home to his work. As soon as Peter was seated in the +coach, the gentleman informed him, he was going to a school where he +would meet with kind usage and good entertainment: you live very well, +says he to his son, don't you, Tommy? Yes, Sir, very well, replied +Tommy, we have apple-pie two or three times a week; then I dare say, you +know how to spell apple-pie, don't you, Tommy? O yes, Sir, ap-pel-pey. +And how do you spell it, Billy? says he to his other son, ap-pel-pye. +And how do you spell it, Peter? ap-ple-pie, Sir: that's right, you are a +good boy, and there is a sixpence for you; and as for you two dunces, I +will take care you shall neither of you have another bit of apple-pie, +till you know how to spell it; and he was as good as his word; for +though all the rest of the boys had apple-pie the next day for dinner, +neither of them were suffered to eat a bit, because they had not learned +to spell it; so they were obliged to sit and look at the rest, like two +blockheads as they were. + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + +The same affable behaviour which had gained him the esteem of all his +acquaintance at home, soon made little Peter equally respected at +school; nay, all the good boys were so pleased with the sweetness of his +temper, and the good advice which he always gave them, when any quarrel +or disagreement happened between them, that they came to a resolution to +elect him their King, by the title of the King of the Good Boys, and he +was always afterwards called LITTLE KING PIPPIN, (so we shall give him +the same title through the remainder of the history:) and all disputes +between them, of whatever nature, were referred to his decision; and so +great was their respect for their King, and so just were his +determinations on these occasions, that they were always submitted to +without murmuring or repining: as a badge of distinction for their new +king, they made a general subscription, and bought him a fine cap +ornamented with a white feather, and round it was engraved in letters of +gold, "Peter Pippin, King of the Good Boys." A few days after Peter was +chosen King, as George Graceless, Neddy Neverpray, and two or three +other boys, as naughty as themselves, were playing at marbles in the +church-yard, George Graceless's brother Jack, who was a very +good-natured little boy, happened to stop his brother George's marble by +accident, upon which he flew into a violent passion, took the Lord's +name in vain, called his brother a fool, and made use of a great many +other wicked expressions, which so shocked Little King Pippin, who was +sitting on a tomb-stone, just by, reading Mrs. Winlove's Lectures, that +he could not forbear speaking to little Graceless; pray, Master +Graceless, says he, do you know the consequence of these shocking +expressions? did you never read in your Bible, that "Whosoever calleth +his brother a fool, is in danger of hell fire?" and don't you know, that +one of the commandments says, "Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord +thy God in vain; for the Lord will not hold him guiltless, that taketh +his name in vain?" Where can you expect to go when you die? Pooh, says +little Graceless, don't tell me any of your nonsensical stuff about +dying, I have many a good year to live yet; do you mind your reading, +and let me alone to my play. Oh fy, oh fy, Master Graceless, says Little +King Pippin, God Almighty, if he pleased, could strike you dead, this +moment, and however secure you may think yourself, be assured, + + _There's not a sin that you commit, + Nor wicked word you say, + But in God's dreadful book 'tis writ + Against the judgment day._ + + There's not a fib that e'er was told, + Or evil thought arose, + _But in that book is safe inroll'd, + As that day will disclose._ + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + +Shah, says he, I am not afraid of that, and away he went singing, + + _Let us be merry and gay, + And drive away care and sorrow, + We'll laugh and sing to-day, + And talk about death to-morrow,_ + +as thoughtless and unconcerned as if he had done nothing amiss; and now +the clock striking two, which was the hour for returning to school, +Billy Meanwell, Sammy Sober, Bobby Bright, Tommy Telltruth, and all the +rest of the good boys, with Little King Pippin at their head, ran as +fast as they could, to try who should get into the school first; but +George Graceless and his companions, being on the other side of the +church, saw nothing of their running into school, and their minds were +so taken up with play, that they never heard the clock strike, and +continued playing so long till they were afraid to go in; so at last +they agreed to play truant, and they all went together a bird's nesting. +The first nest they found was a poor little Robin Redbreast's, which one +of them, whose name was Harry Harmless, and who was not so hard-heated +as the rest, (indeed his chief fault was keeping company with these +wicked boys,) persuaded them not to destroy; for, says he, a Robin +Redbreast is such a pretty innocent bird, that I can't find in my heart +to do it any harm, and it was that good-natured bird that covered over +the poor little Children in the Wood with leaves, when they were starved +to death: Pooh, says George Graceless and Tom Tiger, what signifies +talking such stuff as that, and down they pulled the poor Robin's eggs, +nest and all, and left the pretty little bird making such piteous moans, +as would have melted a heart of stone; but they turned a deaf ear to his +tender cries, and went on destroying every nest they could find, without +paying any distinction to the most innocent of the feathered race: at +last they came to a turtle dove's nest, which was on the top of a great +high tree that hung over a deep river; George Graceless, always the most +forward to undertake any dangerous or mischievous exploit, directly +pulled off his coat and waistcoat, and climbed up the tree, but just as +he got to the top, and was stretching out his wicked hand to take away +the turtle dove's eggs, crack goes the limb, and down he fell into the +river! oh save me, save me, I shall be drowned; oh, that I had attended +to the good advice of Little King Pippin, cried he, and with these +words, down he went to the bottom, and was never seen more. The rest of +his companions began now to see the folly and wickedness of neglecting +their books for idle mischief, and heartily repented that they had not +stayed at school instead of playing truant; but dreading to appear +before their master, both on account of their own naughty behaviour, and +the melancholy accident which had happened to George Graceless, they +strolled about from one field to another, till it was quite dark, and +then went and laid themselves under some bushes in an adjacent wood, +where they fell asleep; but alas! their sleep was very short, for in +less than an hour, they were awakened with such terrible howlings of +wild beasts as was scarce ever heard, tigers, wolves, and lions, hunting +for their prey, with eyes that glared like balls of fire, rushed by them +every instant: in this dreadful situation, expecting every moment to be +torn in pieces, Harry Harmless requested them all to betake themselves +to prayer to God Almighty to guard and protect them from the terrible +dangers which now surrounded them. But oh, shame to tell, not one of +them, except Harry Harmless himself, could repeat, or indeed had ever +learned a single prayer; upon which, Harry, justly concluding, that +those naughty boys who had so totally neglected their duty to their +Creator, could have no claim whatever to his protection, thought he +should be in more safety alone than in such wicked company, therefore +moved to a distance from them, and kneeled down to prayer by himself; +and he had not left them but a few minutes before two monstrous lions +came and devoured every one of them: after they had eaten these wicked +boys, they went up to Harry Harmless, but instead of devouring him, as +they had the others, they seemed as fond of him as a dam of her young, +licked his face and hands with their tongues, and then lay down quietly +upon the ground by his side: for God Almighty had heard his prayers, as +he always will those of all good little boys and girls, and had +converted the natural rage and fierceness of these dreadful beasts into +the meekness and gentleness of lambs. When morning came, Harry found he +had wandered so far from home, that he could not tell which way to +return, but as he was sitting on the side of a bank, reflecting on the +danger and folly of keeping such naughty company, and the many wicked +ways little boys are too often undesignedly led into by that means, he +was surprised by the neighing of a horse, and looking round, there was +the prettiest milk-white little creature galloping towards him that ever +was seen, with a little bridle on, and a saddle and stirrups on his +back, and running directly up to Harry, he fell down on his knees, +seemingly to invite him to get on his back; Harry was almost afraid to +trust himself on the little horse at first, but recollecting that the +same Almighty hand which had rescued him from the paws of the lions, +could protect him from every other danger, he mounted on his back, and +he was no sooner seated, but the pretty little thing galloped away with +him as fast as he could run, and never stopt till he brought him within +a little distance of his home; when dropping down again on his knees, in +the same manner as when he took him up, Harry imagining it to be a +signal for him to dismount, immediately alighted, and letting go the +bridle, the little white horse set off neighing and galloping, as when +he first found him, and was out of sight in an instant. As soon as the +account of the unhappy death of George Graceless and his companions was +made known to their master, he was obliged to dispatch a messenger to +inform their parents, and the shocking news had such a melancholy +effect on George Graceless's papa and mamma, that they both died of a +broken heart within a month afterwards; and the parents of the other +naughty boys were so greatly afflicted with their loss, that it rendered +the remainder of their lives miserable. Such were the fatal consequences +of these naughty boys neglecting that duty which every one owes to his +Maker; and which, above all things, should never be forgotten; for, had +they learned their prayers, and said them every evening and morning, +they would not have been at a loss to have repeated them when they were +surrounded by the wild beasts; and then, no doubt, God Almighty would +have saved them, as well as Harry Harmless; and instead of being the +means of breaking their parents' hearts, they might have lived to have +been the comfort and support of their old age, and perhaps have become +as great men as you will find Little King Pippin did. + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + +As Little King Pippin grew in years he rose in the esteem of every one +who knew him, and his acquaintance was courted by all the good boys in +the school, who frequently invited him, at the request of their parents, +to spend the holidays with them. Among others, he went one Christmas +with the son of Sir William Worthy, a wealthy London merchant. This +gentleman, in whom merit always found a friend, was so highly pleased +with the engaging affability of King Pippin's disposition, as well as +the great proficiency he had made in the several branches of learning, +that he thenceforward took him under his protection, and as soon as he +arrived at a proper age, placed him in his counting-house, in which +situation be conducted himself so much to Sir William's satisfaction, +that, having occasion to send out a person to superintend some +plantations which he possessed abroad, King Pippin was fixed on for that +purpose. A ship being provided, and every thing in readiness for the +voyage, after taking a most affectionate leave of his parents and +friends, he set sail for these plantations, which were situated in one +of the West India islands. About a fortnight after their departure, +they had the misfortune to lose the Captain's son, a little boy about +eight or nine years of age, who fell from the ship's side, when she was +under full sail, and was drowned. This melancholy accident is another +striking instance of the unhappy consequences of children's disobedience +to their parents. The little boy, here alluded to, used frequently to +get on the outside of the ship, and let himself down by a rope to paddle +in the sea; he had been several times detected by his papa, in playing +those frolics; and as often reproved for it, and warned of the danger, +but to little purpose; for he was one of those headstrong undutiful +children (of whom I fear there are too many) who, as soon as they are +out of their parents' sight, forget the good advices and prudent +cautions which have been given them, and pursue each idle fancy that +enters their heads, without once considering either the folly or danger +of it, till they are convinced, by fatal experience, that their parents +are much more capable of judging what is proper for them than they are +for themselves. + +[Illustration] + +After this accident, they proceeded on their voyage for several weeks, +with very favourable weather, and had got so near their destined +harbour, that they expected to have made it the next day, but in this +they were unhappily disappointed; for about ten o'clock in the evening +they were overtaken by the most violent storm that the oldest sailor on +board had ever remembered. The waves, which broke mountains high over +the ship, washed several of the sailors overboard, and the rest were so +dispirited and fatigued, that they were obliged to let the ship drive at +the mercy of the wind and waves. + +The next morning, as soon as it was light, they perceived that the ship +was carried towards the land with the greatest rapidity; and, as they +every moment expected, about nine o'clock she struck upon a rock; the +boat was immediately hoisted out, and every one on board crowded into +her, except King Pippin, who imagining, that being overloaded, she could +not possibly reach the shore, preferred remaining on the wreck. A very +short time convinced him, that his suspicion was too well grounded; for +before the boat was out of sight, she overset, and every one on board +perished. + +In this dangerous situation, expecting that the ship would go to pieces +every moment, he continued till the afternoon, when the storm began to +abate, and the sea became tolerably calm, and by the ebb of the tide the +ship was much nearer the land than when she first struck. King Pippin +now conceived hopes of gaining the shore, by means of a raft which he +had constructed in the best manner he could; and, furnishing himself +with such things as he thought might be useful to him on shore, he let +down his raft into the sea, and placing himself on it, began to paddle +towards the land; he had proceeded about a mile with great difficulty, +when a sudden gust of wind instantly overset his whole cargo, and he was +obliged to swim near a mile farther before he could reach the shore. + +[Illustration] + +After returning thanks to God Almighty for his great goodness towards +him, in preserving him alone of the whole ship's crew, King Pippin +began to consider in what manner he should spend the night, which now +drew on apace. Not knowing but there might be wild beasts on the island, +he was for some time at a loss how to secure himself, till recollecting +he had read, that Robinson Crusoe, when he was cast away on an +uninhabited island, had spent the night on the top of a thick tree, he +had recourse to the same method, and after the great fatigue he had +undergone, slept very soundly till morning, when he descended from his +new lodging, and walked several miles about the island, to discover if +it was inhabited, but not being able to find the least traces of any +human creature, he returned towards the sea-side, in hopes that some of +the ship's provisions might be driven on shore; in this too, however, he +was disappointed, and hunger obliged him to set about inventing a snare +for taking some of the goats, of which he had seen great numbers in his +morning walk, but they were so exceeding wild, that it proved a very +laborious task, and employed the greatest part of King Pippin's time +during his stay on the island; indeed he was sometimes so unsuccessful, +that a few vegetables alone were his only sustenance for days together. +Some months after he had been cast away on this solitary place, being +one day greatly fatigued, by a fruitless pursuit of some of these goats, +he sat himself down on the side of a hill, and looking with desponding +eyes towards the sea, he flattered himself that he saw something like a +sail at a great distance; after gazing attentively for several hours, +without once suffering his attention to be diverted from the wished for +object, he was at last, to his unspeakable joy, convinced that it was a +ship, and that she was making directly for the land: about five o'clock +in the evening, they came to anchor at a small distance from the shore, +and having hoisted out their boat, rowed directly into a little creek +near the edge of a wood, where King Pippin, having descended from the +hill, had concealed himself: as soon as they had landed, perceiving as +well by their dress as their language, that they were his countrymen, he +discovered himself to them, and was received with the greatest kindness +and humanity; and to add to the happiness of his delivery, he found upon +enquiry, that they were going to the same island for which he had been +originally bound, but had been driven so far out of their course by a +violent storm which they had encountered a few days before. Having +repaired their vessel, and procured such refreshments as the place +afforded, in about a week they again set sail, and arrived at their +destined port without any farther accident. + +Immediately upon their arrival, King Pippin took upon him the care of +Sir William Worthy's estate, and adopted such prudent regulations in the +management of it, as rendered it in a few years almost double in its +value; in return for which care and assiduity, he was taken into +partnership by Sir William. This good fortune, however, did not fill his +mind with that pride and ostentation too frequently attendant on success +in life; King Pippin still continued the same engaging respect to his +acquaintance, and the same courteous affability to his inferiors, which +had marked his character in every sphere of life, nor did it pass +unrewarded; for the governor of the island falling a sacrifice to those +pestilential diseases which are common to hot climates, the inhabitants +unanimously joined in a petition to the King requesting him to appoint +King Pippin his successor to the government, recommending him as a +person, endowed with every qualification requisite to the happiness of +his subjects. Though virtue is generally a poor recommendation at court, +in this instance it succeeded, and King Pippin was immediately appointed +to the government of the island. + +It would fill a volume to relate the numerous acts of justice, humanity, +and benevolence, performed by him during his government; suffice it +therefore to say, that under so good a governor, the people enjoyed +freedom, plenty, content, and happiness. + +FINIS + +[Illustration: _Bonaparte._] + +HOULSTONS, PRINTERS. + + + +***END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE HISTORY OF LITTLE KING PIPPIN*** + + +******* This file should be named 28768.txt or 28768.zip ******* + + +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: +http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/8/7/6/28768 + + + +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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