tag="{http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}a">LOYALTY
INDOLENCE
THE LAW OF HOSPITALITY
THE FLOWER HOSPITAL
PUPPY GOOPS
EXAGGERATION
NOISE! NOISE! NOISE!
STEALING RIDES
UNTIDY GOOPS
A GOOP PARTY
INQUISITIVENESS
DON'T BE GOOD
WRITE RIGHT!
WET FEET
DRESS QUICKLY!
DANGER!
THE REASON WHY
IN GOOP ATTIRE
IMPOSSIBLE
INTRODUCTION
Children, although you might expect
My manners to be quite correct
(For since I fancy I can teach,
I ought to practice what I preach),
'Tis true that I have often braved
My mother's wrath, and misbehaved!
And almost every single rule
I broke, before I went to school!
For that is how I learned the way
To teach you etiquette to-day.
So when you chance to take a look
At all the maxims in the book,
You'll see that most of them are true,
I found them out, and so will you,
For if you are as GOOP derided,
You may perhaps reform, as I did!
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WINDOW-SMOOCHERS
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Little Goops are marking
On the window pane;
I forbid, in vain!
Noses, when they're greasy,
Leave a smooch so easy!
Rub it out again!
I shall have to scold them,
For I've often told them,
Kindly, to refrain!
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A LOW TRICK
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The meanest trick I ever knew
Was one I know you never do.
I saw a Goop once try to do it,
And there was nothing funny to it.
He pulled a chair from under me
As I was sitting down; but he
Was sent to bed, and rightly, too.
It was a horrid thing to do!
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WHEN TO GO
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When you go a-calling,
Never stay too late;
You will wear your welcome out
If you hesitate!
Just before they're tired of you,
Just before they yawn,
Before they think you are a Goop,
And wish that you were gone,
While they're laughing with you,
While they like you so,
While they want to keep you,—
That's the time to go!
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