EAR children all, who read this book,
On nothing in these pages look
As too fantastic, too extreme:
Remember (this is my excuse

To silence possible

abuse) ‘

ll the story of a dreas

To please our momentary w
And we can dress in any way
That's most convenient for the day,

And eat the most. unwholesome dishes ;
While Fancy shapes in strange array

A medley of Birds, Beasts and Fishes.

O take this Book from an Old Boy,
And if it prove a silly toy, ;
And Nurs’ry critics fail to spare it, ,
I hope that every dimpled finger
That o'er my nonsense will not linger
May have abundant strength to tear it.

 

     

  

The Baldwin Library

University
RnB
Florida