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    The Bad Child's Book of Beasts
    The Bad Child's Book of Beasts
    The Bad Child's Book of Beasts
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    The Bad Child's Book of Beasts

    By B. T. B. (Basil Temple Blackwood) and Hilaire Belloc

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      The Bad Child's Book of Beasts - B. T. B. (Basil Temple Blackwood)

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Bad Child's Book of Beasts, by Hilaire Belloc

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

      almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or

      re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included

      with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net

      Title: Bad Child's Book of Beasts

      Author: Hilaire Belloc

      Illustrator: Ian Basil Gawaine Temple, Lord. Blackwood

      Release Date: November 6, 2008 [EBook #27175]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BAD CHILD'S BOOK OF BEASTS ***

      Produced by Chris Curnow, Joseph Cooper, some images

      courtesy of The Internet Archive and the Online Distributed

      Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net

      THE

      BAD CHILD'S

      BOOK OF

      BEASTS

      Verses by

      H. BELLOC

      Pictures by

      B. T. B.

      DUCKWORTH,

      3 Henrietta Street, Covent Garden

      Child! do not throw this book about;

      Refrain from the unholy pleasure

      Of cutting all the pictures out!

      Preserve it as your chiefest treasure.

      Child, have you never heard it said

      That you are heir to all the ages?

      Why, then, your hands were never made

      To tear these beautiful thick pages!

      Your little hands were made to take

      The better things and leave the worse ones.

      They also may be used to shake

      The Massive Paws of Elder Persons.

      And when your

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