Stories and Poems - Tapa blanda

Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1909. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... Because of the seas outside; When the ship goes wop (with a wiggle between) And the steward falls into the soup-tureen, And the trunks begin to slide; When Nursey lies on the floor in a heap, And Mummy tells you to let her sleep, And you are n't waked or washed or dressed, Why, then you will know (if you have n't guessed) You 're "Fifty North and Forty West!" green PART IV HE WAS THRICE WEARY OF THE STATEMENT THAT, "THE CAT LAY ON THE MAT AND THE RAT CAME IN." "NOW I CAN TRULY READ," SAID PUNCH, "AND NOW I WILL NEVER READ ANYTHING IN THE WORLD." i TRUE ROYALTY For Eleanor who feeds her butterfly on a fresh red rose "to see him Udooa fefc proboscis and eat like a little elephant." THERE was never a Queen like Balkis, From here to the wide world's end; But Balkis talked to a butterfly As you would talk to a friend. There was never a King like Solomon, Not since the world began; But Solomon talked to a butterfly As a man would talk to a man. She was Queen of Sabaea -- And he was Asia's Lord -- But they both of 'em talked to butterflies When they took their walks abroad! NCE upon a time, on an uninhabited island on the shores of the Red Sea, there lived a Parsee from whose hat the rays of the sun were reflected in more-than-oriental splendour. And the Parsee lived by the Red Sea with nothing but his hat and his knife and a cooking-stove of the kind that you must particularly never touch. And one day he took flour and water and currants and plums and sugar and things, and made himself one cake which was two feet across and three feet thick. It was indeed a Superior Comestible {that's magic), and he put it on the stove because he was allowed to cook on that stove, and he baked it and he baked it till it was all done brown and smelt most sentimental. But just as he...