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SELECTED CAUTIONARY VERSES - Illustrated Puffin Story Book Edition

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This is a HILARIOUS book with its cautionary verses such as 'Sarah Byng who could not read and was tossed into a thorny hedge by a bull' or 'Godolphin Horne who was cursed with the sin of pride and became a bootblack'. I LOVE the last lines of 'Jim who ran away from his nurse and was eaten by a lion' which run: 'so always keep a-hold of Nurse for fear of finding something worse.'
Then there comes a section called 'the Bad Child's Book of Beasts' and some comic verses on Lords and Ladies.
Perhaps funniest of all is Belloc's verse on 'the 3 races' with its concluding lines:
Most degraded of them all
Mediterranean we call;
His hair is crisp and even curls
And he is saucy with the girls.

The accompanying drawing shows an Italian icecream seller leering at his female customer!
Brilliant little drawings add to the feel of the whole thing. I think the adult reader will get more from the humor than the child