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CAUTIONARY TALES FOR CHILDREN CAUTIONARY TALES FOR CHILDREN Designed for the Admonition of Children between the ages of eight and fourteen years Verses by H. BELLOC Pictures by B. T. B. DUCKWORTH 3 HENRIETTA STREET, LONDON, W.C. First published by Eveleigh Nash, 1907 First published by Gerald Duckworth & Co. Ltd., 1918 Thirteenth Impression, 1957 All rights reserved Made and Printed in Great Britain by Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd London and Edinburgh DEDICATED TO BOBBY, JOHNNY, AND EDDIE SOMERSET INTRODUCTION Upon being asked by a Reader whether the verses contained in this book were true.
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.
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