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    The History of Little King Pippin With an Account of the Melancholy Death of Four Naughty Boys, Who were Devoured by Wild Beasts. And the Wonderful Delivery of Master Harry Harmless, by a Little White Horse.
    The History of Little King Pippin With an Account of the Melancholy Death of Four Naughty Boys, Who were Devoured by Wild Beasts. And the Wonderful Delivery of Master Harry Harmless, by a Little White Horse.
    The History of Little King Pippin With an Account of the Melancholy Death of Four Naughty Boys, Who were Devoured by Wild Beasts. And the Wonderful Delivery of Master Harry Harmless, by a Little White Horse.
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    The History of Little King Pippin With an Account of the Melancholy Death of Four Naughty Boys, Who were Devoured by Wild Beasts. And the Wonderful Delivery of Master Harry Harmless, by a Little White Horse.

    By Thomas Bewick

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
    The History of Little King Pippin With an Account of the Melancholy Death of Four Naughty Boys, Who were Devoured by Wild Beasts. And the Wonderful Delivery of Master Harry Harmless, by a Little White Horse.

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      The History of Little King Pippin With an Account of the Melancholy Death of Four Naughty Boys, Who were Devoured by Wild Beasts. And the Wonderful Delivery of Master Harry Harmless, by a Little White Horse. - Thomas Bewick

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      Title: The History of Little King Pippin

      With an Account of the Melancholy Death of Four Naughty Boys, Who were Devoured by Wild Beasts. And the Wonderful Delivery of Master Harry Harmless, by a Little White Horse.

      Author: Thomas Bewick

      Release Date: May 12, 2009 [eBook #28768]

      Language: English

      Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1

      ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE HISTORY OF LITTLE KING PIPPIN***

      E-text prepared by Meredith Bach

      and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team

      (http://www.pgdp.net)

      from digital material generously made available by

      Internet Archive/American Libraries

      (http://www.archive.org/details/americana)

      Would you be learned, good, and great,

      Our Hero strive to imitate;

      For Merit was the only Thing

      That made poor Pippin's Son a King.

      THE HISTORY

      OF LITTLE

      KING PIPPIN.

      With an Account of the Melancholy Death of

      FOUR NAUGHTY BOYS,

      WHO WERE

      Devoured by Wild Beasts.

      AND THE

      Wonderful Delivery of Master Harry Harmless,

      by a little

      WHITE HORSE.

      ORNAMENTED WITH CUTS.

      WELLINGTON:

      Printed by F. Houlston and Son.

      Price Two-pence.

      THE HISTORY

      OF

      LITTLE KING PIPPIN.

      Peter Pippin was the son of Gaffer and Gammer Pippin,

      Who liv'd at the Ivy-house under the hill,

      And if they are not gone, they live there still.

      This is the house, and a pretty little snug place it is, and there is Peter and his father and mother at the door. Daddy, says Peter, I wish I could have another pretty little Picture-Book, for I have read Mrs. Lovechild's Golden Present so often, that I can repeat it without book. I am very glad to hear it, Peter, says his father, and I wish I could afford to buy you books as fast as you can learn them. I have been saving a penny a week these five weeks, to buy the LADDER to LEARNING

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