Cautionary Tales & Bad Child's Book of Beasts by Hilaire Belloc

Author:Hilaire Belloc [Hilaire Belloc]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Dover Publications
Published: 2014-05-15T00:00:00+00:00

his father Lord Dunquerque

Said “Hi! ” in a Commanding Tone,

“Hi, Lundy! Leave the Cat alone!”

Lord Lundy, letting go its tail,

Would raise so terrible a wail

As moved

His

Grandpapa

the

Duke

To utter the severe rebuke:

“When I, Sir! was a little Boy,

An Animal was not a Toy!”

His father’s Elder Sister, who

Was married to a Parvenoo,

Confided to Her Husband, “Drat!

The Miserable, Peevish Brat!

Why don’t they drown the Little Beast ?”

Suggestions which, to say the least,

Are not what we expect to hear

From Daughters of an English Peer.

His grandmamma, His Mother’s Mother,

Who had some dignity or other,

The Garter, or no matter what,

I can’t remember all the Lot!

Said “Oh! that I were Brisk and Spry

To give him that for which to cry!”

(An empty wish, alas! for she

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