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    Cautionary Tales for Children
    Cautionary Tales for Children
    Cautionary Tales for Children
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    Cautionary Tales for Children

    By Hilaire Belloc

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    Cautionary Tales for Children: Designed for the Admonition of Children between the ages of eight and fourteen years is a 1907 children's book written by Hilaire Belloc. It is a parody of the cautionary tales that were popular in the 19th century. The work is in the public domain in the United States. Illustrated by Belloc's friend from Oxford Basil Temple Blackwood, it is similar in style to the The Bad Child's Book of Beasts which had brought Belloc public acclaim and commercial success a decade earlier. The book contains an introduction and eleven tales, all written in rhyming couplets.
    LanguageEnglish
    Publisheranboco
    Release dateAug 24, 2016
    ISBN9783736408791
    Cautionary Tales for Children
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    Hilaire Belloc

    Hilaire Belloc was born in France in 1870. As a child, he moved with his mother and siblings to England. As a French citizen, he did his military service in France before going to Oxford University, where he was president of the Union debating society. He took British citizenship in 1902 and was a member of parliament for several years. A prolific and versatile writer of over 150 books, he is best remembered for his comic and light verse. But he also wrote extensively about politics, history, nature and contemporary society. Famously adversarial, he is remembered for his long-running feud with H. G. Wells. He died in in Surrey, England, in 1953.

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      Cautionary Tales for Children - Hilaire Belloc

      B.

      INTRODUCTION

      Upon being asked by a Reader whether the verses contained in this book were true.

      And is it True? It is not True.

      And if it were it wouldn’t do,

      For people such as me and you

      Who pretty nearly all day long

      Are doing something rather wrong.

      Because if things were really so,

      You would have perished long ago,

      And I would not have lived to write

      The noble lines that meet your sight,

      Nor B. T. B. survived to draw

      The nicest things you ever saw.

      H. B.

      Jim,

      Who ran away from his Nurse, and was eaten by a Lion.

      There was a Boy whose name was Jim;

      His Friends were very good to him.

      They gave him Tea, and Cakes, and Jam,

      And slices of delicious Ham,

      And Chocolate with pink inside,

      And little Tricycles to ride,

      And

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