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+      The Infant Moralist | Project Gutenberg
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+<div style='text-align:center'>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 76648 ***</div>
+
+<div class="chapter">
+<h1>THE<br>
+INFANT MORALIST</h1>
+
+<p class="center tall"><span class="muchsmaller">BY</span><br>
+<span class="larger">LADY HELENA CARNEGIE</span><br>
+<span class="muchsmaller">AND</span><br>
+<span class="larger">MRS ARTHUR JACOB</span></p>
+
+
+<p class="p2 center tall">EDINBURGH<br>
+R. GRANT &amp; SON, 107 PRINCES STREET<br>
+LONDON: R. BRIMLEY JOHNSON<br>
+1903</p>
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+</div><!--end chapter-->
+
+<!--Pg 2-->
+<!--Pg 3-->
+
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<div class="figcenter">
+ <img src="images/i_003.jpg"
+ alt="Cruelty to Animals">
+</div><!--end figcenter-->
+
+<h2 class="break" id="CRUELTY_TO_ANIMALS">CRUELTY TO ANIMALS</h2>
+</div>
+<div class="poetry-container">
+<div class="poetry">
+<div class="stanza"><div class="verse indent0">How, George! you’re in Disgrace once more,</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">What’s this? a tearful Eye,</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">The tell-tale Feathers on the Floor,</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">Show me the Reason why.</div></div>
+
+<div class="stanza"><div class="verse indent0">Why did you free Amelia’s Bird</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">Where Harriet’s Tabby pounced?</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">You selfish Boy, upon my Word</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">I’ll have you soundly trounced.</div></div>
+
+<div class="stanza"><div class="verse indent0">Your little Cousin’s Tears now see:</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">Her pretty Songster’s dead;</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">A Child so mischievous must be</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">Chastis’d, and sent to Bed.</div></div>
+</div></div>
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+
+<!--Pg 4-->
+<div class="chapter">
+<h2 id="INSENSATE_MISCHIEF">INSENSATE MISCHIEF</h2>
+</div>
+<div class="poetry-container">
+<div class="poetry">
+<div class="stanza"><div class="verse indent0">What a Commotion in the Town!</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">Now has the Steeple fallen down?</div>
+<div class="verse indent2">Some strange Event occurr’d?</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">Fresh Tidings of the War in France,</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">Or News of dire Import, perchance,</div>
+<div class="verse indent2">The Mayor may have heard.</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">See how the People run and point!</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">The Butcher, laden with a Joint,</div>
+<div class="verse indent2">Is brandishing his Knife;</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">The Chandler, with a Pot of Lard,</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">In tumbling from the Farrier’s Yard,</div>
+<div class="verse indent2">Upsets the Baker’s Wife.</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">The Parson hurries up the Street,</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">His Shoes half on, half off his Feet,</div>
+<div class="verse indent2">His Surplice flies behind,</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">And knocking ’gainst the Apple Stall,</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">Of Widow Clarke, the Apples fall,</div>
+<div class="verse indent2">He does not seem to mind!</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">Here comes the Guardian of the Laws!</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">Pray, tell us, Officer, the Cause</div>
+<div class="verse indent2">Of this tumultuous Scene?</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">Why, I declare, the Reason’s found,</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">’Tis Master Percy, I’ll be bound,</div>
+<div class="verse indent2">At Mischief who has been.</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">How say you? that an Hour too Fast</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">He set the Town Hall Clock; and last,</div>
+<div class="verse indent2">On further Mischief bent,</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">Upon the Belfry Tower he climbed</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">And all the Bells he loudly chimed</div>
+<div class="verse indent2">Confusion to augment.</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">But Retribution’s fatal Sword</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">No long Delay will e’er afford</div>
+<div class="verse indent2">And soon did Percy smite.</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">His Footing slipp’d, some Time he hung</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">To treach’rous Roofs, but vainly clung</div>
+<div class="verse indent2">And fell a giddy Height.</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">And now upon a Couch of Pain</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">He lies with shattered Bones and Brain;</div>
+<!--pg 5-->
+<div class="verse indent2">But, Pity tho’ we feel,</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">We all should strive to realise</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">That those whose Actions are not Wise</div>
+<div class="verse indent2">From Fate have no Appeal.</div></div>
+</div></div>
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+
+<div class="chapter">
+<div class="figcenter">
+ <img src="images/i_005.jpg"
+ alt="Charitable Louisa">
+</div><!--end figcenter-->
+
+<h2 class="break" id="CHARITABLE_LOUISA">CHARITABLE LOUISA</h2>
+</div>
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+<div class="poetry">
+<div class="stanza"><div class="verse indent0">Now Goody Brown and Widow Bond</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">Live in a Cottage near the Pond,</div>
+<div class="verse indent2">And so, Louisa, you</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">Must now this little Basket take</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">And put in it a Loaf, a Cake,</div>
+<div class="verse indent2">A Pound of Sugar too.</div></div>
+
+<div class="stanza"><div class="verse indent0">Nay! do not frown, ’tis surely good</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">That we the Agêd succour should?</div>
+<div class="verse indent2">Your Shawl and Bonnet don,</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">See, with you faithful Ponto comes,</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">Perhaps a liking for the Crumbs</div>
+<div class="verse indent2">Has urg’d him to go on.</div></div>
+
+<div class="stanza"><div class="verse indent0">So onward trips the little Maid,</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">All smiling sweet, and unafraid</div>
+<div class="verse indent2">Of Gipsies, Tramps and Cows.</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">Then back she comes, while Goody stands</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">And raising up her wither’d Hands</div>
+<div class="verse indent2">Calls down her Prayers and Vows.</div></div>
+</div></div>
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+
+
+<!--Pg 6-->
+<div class="chapter">
+<h2 class="nobreak" id="CREDULITY">CREDULITY</h2>
+</div>
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+<div class="poetry">
+<div class="stanza"><div class="verse indent0">What Consternation fills the Hall!</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">Young Master Frank is miss’d;</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">All Day for him they seek and call</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">Nor through the Night desist.</div></div>
+
+<div class="stanza"><div class="verse indent0">Repeatedly had Frank been warned</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">The Gipsies’ Camp to shun,</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">For Truth and Cleanliness they scorned</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">And left good Deeds undone.</div></div>
+
+<div class="stanza"><div class="verse indent0">Alas for Frank! the Gipsy Queen</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">Had met him by the Stile,</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">With Tales of Fortune she’d foreseen</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">She did the Youth beguile.</div></div>
+
+<div class="stanza"><div class="verse indent0">“I’ll crown you King, and you shall ride</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">In golden Coach,” said she,</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">“You’ll ne’er repent if you decide</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">To follow Gipsy Lee.”</div></div>
+
+<div class="stanza"><div class="verse indent0">The foolish boy went off to roam</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">In search of Wealth and Fame,</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">And all forgot were Friends and Home</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">To his eternal Shame.</div></div>
+
+<div class="stanza"><div class="verse indent0">And now with limping Feet he toils</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">Behind the Caravans,</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">With Tinker’s Tools his Hand he soils</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">And sells both Pots and Pans.</div></div>
+
+<div class="stanza"><div class="verse indent0">His Parents fond their Son with Tears</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">Distractedly deplore:</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">They sought him o’er the World for Years,</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">But saw him nevermore.</div></div>
+</div></div>
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+
+<div class="chapter">
+<!--Pg 7-->
+
+<div class="figcenter">
+ <img src="images/i_007.jpg"
+ alt="Consequences of Greed">
+</div><!--end figcenter-->
+
+<h2 class="break">THE CONSEQUENCES OF GREED</h2>
+</div>
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+<div class="poetry">
+<div class="stanza"><div class="verse indent0">Why, Edward! why this Cry of Pain?</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">This Jacket all besmirched?</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">Your strict Papa I’ll call again</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">And have you soundly birched.</div></div>
+
+<div class="stanza"><div class="verse indent0">This pastry, that indulgent Cook</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">Had filled for you with Jam,</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">With hasty Greed, and envious Look</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">You down your Throat did cram.</div></div>
+
+<div class="stanza"><div class="verse indent0">Now Gluttons! pray attend to me:</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">I’ll send for Doctor Bell,</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">A Child with Appetite too free</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">He always doses well.</div></div>
+</div></div>
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+
+<!--Pg 8-->
+<div class="chapter">
+<h2 class="nobreak" id="PROFANITY">PROFANITY</h2>
+</div>
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+<div class="poetry">
+<div class="stanza"><div class="verse indent0">A Sailor of the name of Park</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">Gave Nurse a Parrot gay;</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">I think I heard the Man remark</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">It came from Paraguay.</div></div>
+
+<div class="stanza"><div class="verse indent0">How strange a Sight in distant Lands,</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">Where Wonders meet the Eye,</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">To see the Works of Nature’s Hands</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">From ev’ry Tree-top fly.</div></div>
+
+<div class="stanza"><div class="verse indent0">But Oh! with Shame and Sorrow both,</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">I scarce can lisp the Tale,</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">Its brutal Jest and hideous Oath</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">My infant Cheek turn’d pale.</div></div>
+
+<div class="stanza"><div class="verse indent0">Alas! when all is bright and fair</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">That Wickedness should lurk,</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">Those sinful Words that filled the Air</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">Were Man’s ignoble work.</div></div>
+
+<div class="stanza"><div class="verse indent0">Nurse screamed aloud, the Sailor ran,</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">The Bird spoke yet more plain;</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">Oh! how I hope the shameless Man</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">Will not come back again.</div></div>
+
+<div class="stanza"><div class="verse indent0">How very careful we should be</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">’Mong those alone to move</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">Who shunning, fly Profanity,</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">And who our Hearts approve.</div></div>
+</div></div>
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+
+<!--Pg 9-->
+
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<div class="figcenter">
+ <img src="images/i_009.jpg"
+ alt="Envy">
+</div><!--end figcenter-->
+
+<h2 class="break" id="ENVY">ENVY</h2>
+</div>
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+<div class="poetry">
+<div class="stanza"><div class="verse indent0">Why, Ellen, such a pouting Face</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">Is quite against the Rule:</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">I fear you have incurr’d Disgrace,</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">Or done amiss at School.</div></div>
+
+<div class="stanza"><div class="verse indent0">What! Lucy Elton’s rich Pelisse</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">Your envious Thoughts inspire?</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">And Fanny Jones disturbs your Peace</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">When dress’d in gay Attire?</div></div>
+
+<div class="stanza"><div class="verse indent0">You foolish Child, did you but know</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">The Way their Wealth was gained</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">Your Cheeks with honest Shame would glow</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">While youthful Life remained.</div></div>
+
+<div class="stanza"><div class="verse indent0">For Lucy’s Father robb’d a Bank,</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">And Fanny’s Sire a Church:</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">Far from such Wealth you Heav’n may thank</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">Your Name can None besmirch.</div></div>
+</div></div>
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+
+<!--Pg 10-->
+
+<div class="chapter">
+<h2 class="nobreak" id="THE_SCHOOL_FEAST">THE SCHOOL FEAST</h2>
+</div>
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+<div class="poetry">
+<div class="stanza"><div class="verse indent0">Now Lady Emma at the Grange</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">A School Feast has at Heart,</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">And very kindly does arrange</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">That we shall all take Part.</div></div>
+
+<div class="stanza"><div class="verse indent0">Maria, to avert the Cold,</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">Her velvet Spencer wears,</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">And little Jane, of five Years old,</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">A Sun-shade gravely bears.</div></div>
+
+<div class="stanza"><div class="verse indent0">Edward, and Charles, and Sister Fan</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">In Joy their Accents raise,</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">And William Fry, the Garden man,</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">Puts Dobbin in the Chaise.</div></div>
+
+<div class="stanza"><div class="verse indent0">Papa assumes the Reins’ control,</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">Mama her Shawl, and so</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">Crack goes the Whip, the Wheels they roll,</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">And now, away we go!</div></div>
+
+<div class="stanza"><div class="verse indent0">How happy we, with Parents kind</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">And Clothes so clean and neat:</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">Oh! may we always bear in Mind</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">’Twas Virtue earn’d this Treat.</div></div>
+</div></div>
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+
+
+<div class="chapter">
+<h2 class="nobreak" id="COURAGE">COURAGE</h2>
+</div>
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+<div class="poetry">
+<div class="stanza"><div class="verse indent0">Mervyn and Charles and little Ann</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">Rose early from their Rest;</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">Who should be First, as out they ran,</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">They joyfully contest.</div></div>
+
+<div class="stanza"><div class="verse indent0">Mervyn was Senior by one Year</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">To Charles, whose Summers six</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">Exceeded Ann’s, it would appear,</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">By Two, and Seven Weeks.</div></div>
+
+<div class="stanza"><div class="verse indent0">Among the Flowers that smell so sweet</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">They pluck’d a Posy gay,</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">To give Mama a pleasant Treat</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">Upon her Natal Day.</div></div>
+</div></div>
+
+<!--Pg 11-->
+
+<div class="figcenter">
+ <img src="images/i_011.jpg"
+ alt="Courage">
+</div><!--end figcenter-->
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+<div class="poetry">
+<div class="stanza"><div class="verse indent0">But oh! from off a blooming Rose</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">Ann gather’d with Delight,</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">A cruel Wasp upon her Nose</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">Did suddenly alight.</div></div>
+
+<div class="stanza"><div class="verse indent0">She loudly scream’d, and Mervyn seiz’d</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">The Insect in his Clasp,</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">Nor loosed his Hold ere it was squeez’d</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">And crush’d within his Grasp.</div></div>
+
+<div class="stanza"><div class="verse indent0">Though painful Stings his Hand inflam’d</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">He did not Cry nor Quail,</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">And kind Mama with Pride exclaim’d</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">When Charles told her the Tale.</div></div>
+
+<div class="stanza"><div class="verse indent0">Such Youths grow up as Soldiers brave,</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">Or Sailors bold and free;</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">And thus Britannia’s Flag shall wave</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">Supreme on every Sea.</div></div>
+</div></div>
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+
+<!--Pg 12-->
+<div class="chapter">
+<h2 class="nobreak" id="HEARTLESS_FOLLY">HEARTLESS FOLLY</h2>
+</div>
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+<div class="poetry">
+<div class="stanza"><div class="verse indent0">Pray, Richard, do you think it right</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">To act as you did Tuesday Night</div>
+<div class="verse indent2">And make of Age a Mock?</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">The Admiral, whose Legs you tied</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">Whilst he was sitting by my side,</div>
+<div class="verse indent2">Is indisposed from Shock.</div></div>
+
+<div class="stanza"><div class="verse indent0">As he fell prone upon the Floor</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">I saw you spying through the Door</div>
+<div class="verse indent2">With pert and shameless Smile;</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">His Daughters kind, who tend his Couch,</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">With one accord do freely vouch</div>
+<div class="verse indent2">They marked your Purpose vile.</div></div>
+
+<div class="stanza"><div class="verse indent0">E’en barbarous Turk or Cariboo,</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">Or poor idolatrous Hindoo</div>
+<div class="verse indent2">Before such Act would pause;</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">What should you feel if Admiral Bligh</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">Were taken from us to the Sky</div>
+<div class="verse indent2">And you should be the Cause?</div></div>
+
+<div class="stanza"><div class="verse indent0">Oh! wretched Boy, Elisha’s Bears</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">May even now be on the Stairs</div>
+<div class="verse indent2">Your Punishment to give:</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">For those the Aged who offend</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">Are like to come to fearful End,</div>
+<div class="verse indent2">Or else in Chains to live.</div></div>
+</div></div>
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+<!--Pg 13-->
+
+
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<div class="figcenter">
+ <img src="images/i_013.jpg"
+ alt="Politeness">
+</div><!--end figcenter-->
+<h2 class="break" id="POLITENESS">POLITENESS</h2>
+</div>
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+<div class="poetry">
+<div class="stanza"><div class="verse indent0">What! do I apprehend aright,</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">My Boy, my Herbert impolite?</div>
+<div class="verse indent2">Oh say! oh say not so.</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">I did not see you doff your Hat</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">To Lady Charlotte Merton, that</div>
+<div class="verse indent2">Is not genteel you know.</div></div>
+
+<div class="stanza"><div class="verse indent0">See how polite young Frankie hies</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">To ope the Door for General Wyse,</div>
+<div class="verse indent2">And take from him his Cane.</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">In later times, when Frank’s extoll’d,</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">Your Manner, deemed uncouth and bold,</div>
+<div class="verse indent2">Will give you bitter Pain.</div></div>
+</div></div>
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+<!--Pg 14-->
+
+<div class="chapter">
+<h2 class="nobreak" id="THE_RESULT_OF_HEEDLESSNESS">THE RESULT OF HEEDLESSNESS</h2>
+</div>
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+<div class="poetry">
+<div class="stanza"><div class="verse indent0">Behold that speechless, aged Dame</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">Who totters on the Arm</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">Of Thomas Brown, his sturdy Frame</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">Supporting her from Harm.</div></div>
+
+<div class="stanza"><div class="verse indent0">Sad is the Tale that I must tell,</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">The Cause that struck her Dumb,</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">For to the Shock which her befell</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">She nearly did succumb.</div></div>
+
+<div class="stanza"><div class="verse indent0">Her Nephew Paul a little Mouse</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">Within the Barn had caught,</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">And in his Pocket to the House</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">The tiny Creature brought.</div></div>
+
+<div class="stanza"><div class="verse indent0">How wrong was Paul, for with Dismay</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">His Aunt a Rodent viewed,</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">How wickedly did he repay</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">Her Kindness oft renewed.</div></div>
+
+<div class="stanza"><div class="verse indent0">The Work Box on the Table stood,</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">He quickly rais’d the Lid,</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">And ’mongst the Silks it did include</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">The Mouse securely hid.</div></div>
+
+<div class="stanza"><div class="verse indent0">She oped the Box, her Pins to seek,</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">Out sprang the nimble Mouse,</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">Oh Mercy! what a dreadful Shriek</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">Resounded through the House.</div></div>
+
+<div class="stanza"><div class="verse indent0">Twas her last Cry, for ne’er again</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">Aunt Fanny’s Voice was heard:</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">Depriv’d was she, by Shock and Pain,</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">Of Pow’r to speak a Word.</div></div>
+
+<div class="stanza"><div class="verse indent0">Paul’s Penitence was no avail,</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">The horrid Deed was done,</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">Though Good might through his Life prevail,</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">With Wrong it was begun.</div></div>
+
+<div class="stanza"><div class="verse indent0">How dread to think the Innocent</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">Must suffer for his Crime:</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">Mark how each Fault, though we repent,</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">Bears Consequence through Time.</div></div>
+</div></div>
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+
+<!--Pg 15-->
+
+<div class="figcenter">
+ <img src="images/i_015.jpg"
+ alt="Disrespect">
+</div><!--end figcenter-->
+
+<div class="chapter">
+<h2 class="break" id="LAWLESS_DISRESPECT">LAWLESS DISRESPECT</h2>
+</div>
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+<div class="poetry">
+<div class="stanza"><div class="verse indent0">Come, James, you well deserve the Cane,</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">Your Acts my Ire have gained,</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">To frown I am obliged again</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">And dear Mama is pained.</div></div>
+
+<div class="stanza"><div class="verse indent0">That you to such a Deed should stoop,</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">And impiously should dare</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">At Auntie’s Legs to bowl your Hoop</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">And hurl her through the Air.</div></div>
+
+<div class="stanza"><div class="verse indent0">That Lawlessness should stalk abroad</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">Offends each righteous Heart,</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">And Children, till Respect’s restor’d,</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">Must very rightly smart.</div></div>
+</div></div>
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+
+<!--Pg 16-->
+<div class="chapter">
+<h2 class="nobreak" id="INEVITABLE_RETRIBUTION">INEVITABLE RETRIBUTION</h2>
+</div>
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+<div class="poetry">
+<div class="stanza"><div class="verse indent0">“It is a Shame,” said Albert Gore,</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">“That I my Top may spin no more,</div>
+<div class="verse indent2">But to my Book must go;</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">Whilst James, although the Clock strikes Three,</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">Still plies his Marbles busily</div>
+<div class="verse indent2">With Uncle’s Gardener, Joe.”</div></div>
+
+<div class="stanza"><div class="verse indent0">“Nay, quit your Sport, your Hand refrain,”</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">Cried the Preceptor once again;</div>
+<div class="verse indent2">But, oh! to tell I grieve</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">That Albert, when he turn’d his Face,</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">Made so repellent a Grimace</div>
+<div class="verse indent2">That you would scarce believe.</div></div>
+
+<div class="stanza"><div class="verse indent0">And ah! the Wind, at Heav’n’s behest</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">Changed from the East into the West,</div>
+<div class="verse indent2">Alas! for Albert Gore,</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">His Countenance, his glaring Eye,</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">His Nose outspread, his Mouth awry</div>
+<div class="verse indent2">Were set to turn no more.</div></div>
+
+<div class="stanza"><div class="verse indent0">Oh! what a Warning this should be</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">For every little Child to see,</div>
+<div class="verse indent2">For all from Albert run.</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">The Author of his own Disgrace,</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">He weeps to think how wry a Face</div>
+<div class="verse indent2">He’ll wear till Life is done.</div></div>
+</div></div>
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+
+
+<div class="chapter">
+<h2 class="nobreak" id="REVENGE">REVENGE</h2>
+</div>
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+<div class="poetry">
+<div class="stanza"><div class="verse indent0">When Ferdinand was sent to School</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">It was his great delight</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">To pause and plague the Village Fool</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">’Gainst whom he had a Spite.</div></div>
+
+<div class="stanza"><div class="verse indent0">The poor afflicted Creature dwelt</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">Alone, hard by a Wood,</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">Forlorn and desolate he felt,</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">Oft destitute of Food.</div></div>
+
+<div class="stanza"><div class="verse indent0">But Ferdinand for him could feel</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">No gentle Pity flow,</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">Nor from his daily plenteous Meal</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">Would e’en one Crumb bestow.</div></div>
+</div></div>
+<!--Pg 17-->
+
+<div class="figcenter">
+ <img src="images/i_017.jpg"
+ alt="Revenge">
+</div><!--end figcenter-->
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+<div class="poetry">
+<div class="stanza"><div class="verse indent0">From Vanity came all the Blame:</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">How oft we may remark</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">What fiercely burning Faults will flame</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">From one small sinful Spark.</div></div>
+
+<div class="stanza"><div class="verse indent0">One Sunday morning it had chanced,</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">As to the Church he went,</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">That Ferdinand around had glanced</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">On Admiration bent.</div></div>
+
+<div class="stanza"><div class="verse indent0">His Vest was frill’d, his Jacket too</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">In Fashion’s last Conceit,</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">His Nankeen Pants, of yellow hue,</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">Scarce reach’d his Slippers neat.</div></div>
+
+<div class="stanza"><div class="verse indent0">A tassell’d Cane swung in his Hand,</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">He strutted proudly by,</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">His whole Demeanour a Demand</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">For Wonder’s envious Eye.</div></div>
+
+<div class="stanza"><div class="verse indent0">But oh! what Rage possess’d his Heart</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">When laughter caught his Ear,</div>
+<!--Pg 18-->
+<div class="verse indent0">What Pangs of Anger, like a Dart,</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">Pierc’d him at every Jeer.</div></div>
+
+<div class="stanza"><div class="verse indent0">What did he see? with mincing Tread</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">The Idiot walked behind,</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">And aped his Gestures, wagged his Head</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">And smiled with vacant Mind.</div></div>
+
+<div class="stanza"><div class="verse indent0">A clumsy Bludgeon took the place</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">Of Ferdinand’s smart Cane,</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">And pert young Master’s easy Grace</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">The poor Fool tried to feign.</div></div>
+
+<div class="stanza"><div class="verse indent0">Though Weeks had pass’d, and all should strive</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">Offences to forget,</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">Ferdinand’s Soul could but derive</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">Fresh Cause to fume and fret.</div></div>
+
+<div class="stanza"><div class="verse indent0">An evil Thought one Morning leapt</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">Into his jaundic’d Mind,</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">And with a Saw he stealthy crept</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">To where the Stream did wind.</div></div>
+
+<div class="stanza"><div class="verse indent0">And through and through he sawed the Plank</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">That bridg’d the Waters’ play,</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">Then ’neath a Bush upon the Bank</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">Concealed and still he lay.</div></div>
+
+<div class="stanza"><div class="verse indent0">The Idiot came, he took one Stride,</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">Fell through, and Heels o’er Head</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">He sank, and loud for Help he cried,</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">But guilty Ferd’nand fled.</div></div>
+
+<div class="stanza"><div class="verse indent0">Now had the wicked Boy returned</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">And straight confest his Crime</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">The guilt of Murder, he had learned,</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">Had not been his this Time.</div></div>
+
+<div class="stanza"><div class="verse indent0">Attracted by the Idiot’s Roars,</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">At his sad Plight appalled,</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">His dripping Body to the Shores</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">A Passer-by had hauled.</div></div>
+
+<div class="stanza"><div class="verse indent0">But Ferdinand ran off to Sea</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">And fought great Bonaparte;</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">He perish’d soon, by Fate’s Decree,</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">And broke his Mother’s Heart.</div></div>
+</div></div>
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+
+<div class="chapter">
+<!--Pg 19-->
+<div class="figcenter">
+ <img src="images/i_019.jpg"
+ alt="Unsuitable Jesting">
+</div><!--end figcenter-->
+
+<h2 class="break" id="UNSUITABLE_JESTING">UNSUITABLE JESTING</h2>
+</div>
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+<div class="poetry">
+<div class="stanza"><div class="verse indent0">It grieves me, Emma, much to see</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">How Pert and Rude you are;</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">Sure, everybody must agree</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">From Courtesy you’re far.</div></div>
+
+<div class="stanza"><div class="verse indent0">What wicked Rudeness thus to jest</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">On Mister Barton’s Toes:</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">Poor Gentleman, he’s Uncle’s Guest,</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">And Gout gives painful Throes.</div></div>
+
+<div class="stanza"><div class="verse indent0">How very ill does it beseem</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">A Child to play such Part:</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">The Prisons of the World do teem</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">With those of unkind Heart.</div></div>
+</div></div>
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+
+<!--Pg 20-->
+<div class="chapter">
+<h2 class="nobreak" id="THE_CHATTERBOX">THE CHATTERBOX</h2>
+</div>
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+<div class="poetry">
+<div class="stanza"><div class="verse indent0">I needs must beg you, Caroline,</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">To cease your Chatter whilst I dine,</div>
+<div class="verse indent2">It deafens every Ear.</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">John Footman cannot hear my Words,</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">And I have asked him twice for Curds</div>
+<div class="verse indent2">And still he cannot hear.</div></div>
+
+<div class="stanza"><div class="verse indent0">When Uncle Wilmot, from Malay,</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">Comes here, to make his usual Stay,</div>
+<div class="verse indent2">He surely will suppose</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">That he is back in savage Lands,</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">Where Heathens roam in impious Bands</div>
+<div class="verse indent2">And feast upon their Foes.</div></div>
+
+<div class="stanza"><div class="verse indent0">We all should learn to curb our Speech,</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">Last Week we heard the Rector preach</div>
+<div class="verse indent2">Upon this Rule; ’tis true</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">If he your giddy Talk could hear</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">His Sermons would be more severe,</div>
+<div class="verse indent2">And he would preach on You.</div></div>
+</div></div>
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+
+
+<div class="chapter">
+<h2 class="nobreak" id="SOLICITUDE">SOLICITUDE</h2>
+</div>
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+<div class="poetry">
+<div class="stanza"><div class="verse indent0">Come Matthew! set your Book aside,</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">And Ann your Shawl put on,</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">For in the Carriage we will ride</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">To visit Uncle John.</div></div>
+
+<div class="stanza"><div class="verse indent0">The Way is long so Bread we’ll take,</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">And then, with Cups to fill,</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">We will alight our Thirst to slake</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">By some pellucid Rill.</div></div>
+
+<div class="stanza"><div class="verse indent0">“Thanks, dear Papa,” the Youth did say,</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">“But shall we ask Mama</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">Her kindly Fears aside to lay</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">Before we ride so far?”</div></div>
+
+<div class="stanza"><div class="verse indent0">Yes, thoughtful Boy, his Sire replied,</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">Your Words I now commend;</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">Solicitude should be our Guide</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">With Parent, as with Friend.</div></div>
+</div></div>
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+
+<div class="chapter">
+<!--Pg 21-->
+
+<div class="figcenter">
+ <img src="images/i_021.jpg"
+ alt="Ill-timed Levity">
+</div><!--end figcenter-->
+
+<h2 class="break" id="ILL-TIMED_LEVITY">ILL-TIMED LEVITY</h2>
+</div>
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+<div class="poetry">
+<div class="stanza"><div class="verse indent0">I scarce can speak, Bartholomew,</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">I am so much displeased with you</div>
+<div class="verse indent2">For all that has occur’d:</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">Aunt Porter, who had come to stay,</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">Has in her Chariot roll’d away</div>
+<div class="verse indent2">Without a parting Word.</div></div>
+
+<div class="stanza"><div class="verse indent0">Last Night, when all were sent to Dine,</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">You took a Fish-hook and some Twine</div>
+<div class="verse indent2">And, leaning o’er the Stair,</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">When honour’d Guests went by Below</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">Let slyly down the Hook, and so</div>
+<div class="verse indent2">Secured it in her Hair.</div></div>
+
+<div class="stanza"><div class="verse indent0">Alas! Aunt Porter, long denied</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">That Crown which is a Woman’s Pride,</div>
+<div class="verse indent2">And thinking, sure, no Ill,</div>
+<!--Pg 22-->
+<div class="verse indent0">At Table duly took her Seat</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">With seasoned Majesty replete</div>
+<div class="verse indent2">And amiable Good-will.</div></div>
+
+<div class="stanza"><div class="verse indent0">At last she rais’d her Hand appall’d</div>
+<div class="verse indent2">And sudden found that she was Bald,</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">And for her Speech did strive:—</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">The Scene I cannot now pursue,</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">It has been given to very Few</div>
+<div class="verse indent2">Such Moments to survive.</div></div>
+
+<div class="stanza"><div class="verse indent0">Ah me! you cannot understand</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">What Pow’r may lie in childish Hand</div>
+<div class="verse indent2">E’en at such tender Age.</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">Our Relative in high Disgust</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">Will make Resentment, deep and just,</div>
+<div class="verse indent2">Our only Heritage.</div></div>
+</div></div>
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+
+
+<div class="chapter">
+<h2 class="nobreak" id="THOMAS_AND_THE_BEGGAR">THOMAS AND THE BEGGAR</h2>
+</div>
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+<div class="poetry">
+<div class="stanza"><div class="verse indent0">Come, Thomas come, your Mother called,</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">She saw you in the Street,</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">And of that Beggar, blind and bald</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">She watch’d you trip the Feet.</div></div>
+
+<div class="stanza"><div class="verse indent0">His little Dog, with Jaws agape,</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">An angry Protest raised:</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">But all too late, his Master’s Shape</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">The Pavement’s Edge had grazed.</div></div>
+
+<div class="stanza"><div class="verse indent0">Swift running came Policeman Joe</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">And, threat’ning, spoke of Jail:</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">For those who Others overthrow</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">May deep in Dungeons wail.</div></div>
+</div></div>
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+
+<div class="chapter">
+<!--Pg 23-->
+
+<div class="figcenter">
+ <img src="images/i_023.jpg"
+ alt="Offensive Manners">
+</div><!--end figcenter-->
+
+<h2 class="break" id="OFFENSIVE_MANNERS">OFFENSIVE MANNERS</h2>
+</div>
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+<div class="poetry">
+<div class="stanza"><div class="verse indent0">How nicely little Cecil sits</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">And eats his Cake in careful Bits,</div>
+<div class="verse indent2">A Warning, John, to you</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">Whose Mouth is filled with Beef and Egg,</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">The Remnants of a Turkey’s Leg,</div>
+<div class="verse indent2">And half a Dumpling too.</div></div>
+
+<div class="stanza"><div class="verse indent0">It really makes me feel quite hurt</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">To see the Way that you insert</div>
+<div class="verse indent2">Your Fingers in the Dish;</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">Such Mouthfuls too have ceased to be</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">Since Prophet Jonah marv’llously</div>
+<div class="verse indent2">Was swallowed by the Fish.</div></div>
+
+<div class="stanza"><div class="verse indent0">Pray from the Joint remove your Fist,</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">And do not stubbornly persist</div>
+<div class="verse indent2">Good Manners to offend.</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">Some Day you’ll choke upon a Slice,</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">Or suffocate from too much Rice</div>
+<div class="verse indent2">And that will be your End.</div></div>
+</div></div>
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+
+
+<div class="chapter">
+<!--Pg 24-->
+<h2 class="nobreak" id="CONTUMACIOUS_CONSTANTINE">CONTUMACIOUS CONSTANTINE</h2>
+</div>
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+<div class="poetry">
+<div class="stanza"><div class="verse indent0">Come, Constantine! this sulky Face</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">I can no more excuse:</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">Entreat for Pardon, beg for Grace,</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">My Patience you abuse.</div></div>
+
+<div class="stanza"><div class="verse indent0">Your Donkey, Ned, you emulate:</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">Because Creation’s Plan</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">Has formed the dumb Beast obstinate</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">It is not so with Man.</div></div>
+
+<div class="stanza"><div class="verse indent0">Your Tongue was giv’n, with contrite Speech,</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">To own when you offend;</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">Your Soul Intelligence to teach</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">And Virtue recommend.</div></div>
+
+<div class="stanza"><div class="verse indent0">Your Conduct you can not defend:</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">It surely was not kind</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">To throw the Pepper o’er your Friend,</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">And risk his going Blind?</div></div>
+
+<div class="stanza"><div class="verse indent0">Despite his burning, tearful Eye,</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">Despite convulsive Sneeze,</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">If ask’d to Pardon he’d comply</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">With your Desire to Please.</div></div>
+
+<div class="stanza"><div class="verse indent0">What! silent still? Then go away:</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">Until Contrition’s shown</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">In Solitude upstairs you stay,</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">For Meals dry Bread alone.</div></div>
+
+<div class="stanza"><div class="verse indent0">All stubborn, naughty Children know</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">That Jam, and Cake, and Pies</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">Are only meant for those who show</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">A Nature Mild and Wise.</div></div>
+</div></div>
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+
+<div class="chapter">
+<!--Pg 25-->
+
+<div class="figcenter">
+ <img src="images/i_025.jpg"
+ alt="Disobedient Emily">
+</div><!--end figcenter-->
+
+<h2 class="break" id="DISOBEDIENT_EMILY">DISOBEDIENT EMILY</h2>
+</div><!--end chapter head-->
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+<div class="poetry">
+<div class="stanza"><div class="verse indent0">When Emily her Task had done</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">It was her Nurse’s Rule</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">To stern forbid her Charge to run</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">Near Miller Jones’s Pool.</div></div>
+
+<div class="stanza"><div class="verse indent0">But Emily did not incline</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">Kind Nursey to obey,</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">She saw the Water Lilies shine</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">That on the Water lay.</div></div>
+
+<div class="stanza"><div class="verse indent0">“La!” she exclaimed, “what Nurse desired</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">She idly spoke in Haste,</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">Those Plants would fitly be admired</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">If on the Table placed.”</div></div>
+
+<div class="stanza"><div class="verse indent0">And so, with bold, presumptuous Mien</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">And disobedient Pride,</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">She hies her to the Meadows green</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">Wherein the Waters glide.</div></div>
+
+<!--Pg 26-->
+<div class="stanza"><div class="verse indent0">To reach the Flowers she plies each Art,</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">And, in the very Deed,</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">A Victim to her wilful Heart,</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">She sinks beneath the Weed.</div></div>
+
+<div class="stanza"><div class="verse indent0">Nurse Sukey, from her Window high,</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">The dire Misfortune views,</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">Her deaf’ning Scream and frenzied Eye</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">Proclaim the fatal News.</div></div>
+
+<div class="stanza"><div class="verse indent0">Dragged by the Miller and his Wife,</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">Who haste their Aid to lend,</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">Young Emily, restored to Life,</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">Makes Promise to amend.</div></div>
+
+<div class="stanza"><div class="verse indent0">“Ah me!” she cries, “tho’ crowned with Slime</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">And choked with Mud and Leaves,</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">My Heart may profit, in its Time,</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">By what my Fault receives.”</div></div>
+</div></div>
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+
+
+<div class="chapter">
+<h2 class="nobreak" id="VIOLENCE">VIOLENCE</h2>
+</div>
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+<div class="poetry">
+<div class="stanza"><div class="verse indent0">Pause, Robert, pause: remember Cain!</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">What’s this you say, Adolphus Bain</div>
+<div class="verse indent2">Has struck you with his Fist?</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">Nay, your Resentment lay aside,</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">Your Playmate you should gently chide</div>
+<div class="verse indent2">And ask him to desist.</div></div>
+
+<div class="stanza"><div class="verse indent0">If he has kicked you in the Chest,</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">Him you should pleasantly request</div>
+<div class="verse indent2">His Anger to postpone</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">Till you have warn’d him how such Deed</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">May injure Health, and Sickness breed,</div>
+<div class="verse indent2">And shake Religion’s Throne.</div></div>
+
+<div class="stanza"><div class="verse indent0">The Reverend Mister Somerville</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">Has brought you up extremely ill</div>
+<div class="verse indent2">If you he has not taught</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">To know that they who raise the Hand</div>
+<div class="verse indent0">May come to bear Cain’s awful Brand:</div>
+<div class="verse indent2">Now Profit by the Thought.</div></div>
+</div></div>
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+
+
+<div class="chapter">
+<h3>Transcriber’s Note:</h3>
+
+<p>A stanza break was added after the sixth line of
+<a href="#INEVITABLE_RETRIBUTION">“Inevitable Retribution.”</a></p>
+</div>
+
+<div style='text-align:center'>*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 76648 ***</div>
+</body>
+</html>
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