Cautionary Tales for Children - LightNovelsOnl.com
You're reading novel online at LightNovelsOnl.com. Please use the follow button to get notifications about your favorite novels and its latest chapters so you can come back anytime and won't miss anything.
[Ill.u.s.tration]
Little Fred,
[Ill.u.s.tration]
The Footmen
[Ill.u.s.tration]
(both of them),
[Ill.u.s.tration]
The Groom,
[Ill.u.s.tration]
The man that cleaned the Billiard-Room,
[Ill.u.s.tration]
The Chaplain, and
[Ill.u.s.tration]
The Still-Room Maid.
And I am dreadfully afraid That Monsieur Champignon, the Chef, Will now be
[Ill.u.s.tration]
permanently deaf-- And both his Aides
[Ill.u.s.tration]
are much the same; While George, who was in part to blame, Received, you will regret to hear, A nasty lump
[Ill.u.s.tration]
behind the ear.
MORAL
The moral is that little Boys Should not be given dangerous Toys.
CHARLES AUGUSTUS FORTESCUE,
_Who always Did what was Right, and so acc.u.mulated an Immense Fortune._
The nicest child I ever knew Was Charles Augustus Fortescue.
He never lost his cap, or tore His stockings or his pinafore: In eating Bread he made no Crumbs, He was extremely fond of sums,
[Ill.u.s.tration]
To which, however, he preferred The Parsing of a Latin Word-- He sought, when it was in his power, For information twice an hour, And as for finding Mutton-Fat Unappetising, far from that!
He often, at his Father's Board, Would beg them, of his own accord,
[Ill.u.s.tration]
To give him, if they did not mind, The Greasiest Morsels they could find-- His Later Years did not belie The Promise of his Infancy.
In Public Life he always tried To take a judgment Broad and Wide;
[Ill.u.s.tration]
In Private, none was more than he Renowned for quiet courtesy.
He rose at once in his Career, And long before his Fortieth Year Had wedded Fifi,
[Ill.u.s.tration]
Only Child Of Bunyan, First Lord Aberfylde.
He thus became immensely Rich, And built the Splendid Mansion which Is called
[Ill.u.s.tration]
_"The Cedars, Muswell Hill,"_ Where he resides in Affluence still To show what Everybody might Become by
SIMPLY DOING RIGHT.
