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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 Project Gutenberg eBook, The History of Little King Pippin, by Thomas Bewick
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
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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 for you: well then, says Peter, I have got a penny, which was given me this morning by Miss Kitty Kindness, so that will make