Cautionary Tales for Children

By Hilaire Belloc

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• Language: English
• Publisher: DigiCat
• Release date: Sep 15, 2022
• ISBN: 8596547329909

Hilaire Belloc

Hilaire Belloc was born in France in 1870. As a child, he moved with his mother and siblings to England. As a French citizen, he did his military service in France before going to Oxford University, where he was president of the Union debating society. He took British citizenship in 1902 and was a member of parliament for several years. A prolific and versatile writer of over 150 books, he is best remembered for his comic and light verse. But he also wrote extensively about politics, history, nature and contemporary society. Famously adversarial, he is remembered for his long-running feud with H. G. Wells. He died in in Surrey, England, in 1953.

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Hilaire Belloc

Cautionary Tales for Children

EAN 8596547329909

DigiCat, 2022

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INTRODUCTION

Jim,

Henry King,

Matilda,

Franklin Hyde,

MORAL

Godolphin Horne,

Algernon,

Hildebrand,

Lord Lundy,

Lord Lundy

Rebecca,

George,

MORAL

Charles Augustus Fortescue,

DEDICATED

TO

BOBBY, JOHNNY, AND EDDIE

SOMERSET

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Upon being asked by a Reader whether the verses contained in this book were true.

And is it True? It is not 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.

H.