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pubOne.info present you this wonderfully illustrated edition. The sixty-nine Cautionary Stories that follow have been chosen from five books by Mrs. Elizabeth Turner, written for the pleasure and instruction of our little grandparents and great-grandparents. The books are The Daisy, The Cowslip, The Crocus, The Pink and Short Poems. Between the years 1810 and 1850 they were on the shelves of most nurseries, although now they are rarely to be met with. There was also The Rose, but from that nothing has been taken for these pages, nor are the original pictures again offered. Except for these pictures, a frequent change of title, and a few trifling alterations for grammar's sake, the pieces selected are now printed exactly as at first.

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Date de parution	06 novembre 2010
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9782819939931
Langue	English

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Mrs. Turner's Cautionary Stories
Introduction
The sixty-nine Cautionary Stories that follow havebeen chosen from five books by Mrs. Elizabeth Turner, written forthe pleasure and instruction of our little grandparents andgreat-grandparents. The books are The Daisy , TheCowslip , The Crocus , The Pink and ShortPoems . Between the years 1810 and 1850 they were on the shelvesof most nurseries, although now they are rarely to be met with.There was also The Rose , but from that nothing has beentaken for these pages, nor are the original pictures again offered.Except for these pictures, a frequent change of title, and a fewtrifling alterations for grammar's sake, the pieces selected arenow printed exactly as at first.
Mrs. Turner's belief, as stated by Master Robert inthe verses called “Books better than Toys” in The Pink , wasthat the children of her day, when they had money to spend andwanted a real treat, could not choose anything more suitable thanher Cautionary Stories. The piece runs:
'My dear, as Robert is so good,
I'll give him what I said I would,
Two shillings for himself to spend;
He knows the shop of our good friend. '
'Yes, I know well the pretty shop
Where folks, you know, so often stop
To view the prints. The windows— look! —
Are filled with toys and many a book.
'They have a thousand books and toys
For little girls and little boys;
At toys, indeed, I love to look ,
But I prefer to buy a book.
'These two bright shillings, I suppose
Will buy The Cowslip and The Rose ;
And when two more I get, I think
I'll buy The Daisy and The Pink . '
In our own time Robert's opinion is not very widelyshared: most of us would not care to give up a cannon or a doll inorder that we might be cautioned; but Mrs. Turner is not the lessan entertaining author because her volumes have fewer attractionsfor us than some of the things in a Christmas bazaar. She told hertales with such spirit: her verses are so straightforward, therhymes come so pat at the end of the lines, and you may beat timewith your foot and never be put out.
In another piece, “Kitty's Favourites, ” Mrs. Turnerwrote:
The stories Kitty likes so well,
And often asks her aunt to tell
Are all about good girls and boys.
Kitty's taste, like Robert's, is no longer general.The common view is that stories about bad children are more fun;and therefore I think you will be amused by these pages. Whether ornot punishment always did follow the offences as surely and swiftlyas Mrs. Turner declares, I am not prepared to say. If you are inany doubt you had better ask your parents.
E. V. Lucas.
November 1897.
Bad Boys and Good
THE WINDOW-BREAKER
Little Tom Jones
Would often throw stones,
And often he had a good warning;
And now I will tell
What Tommy befell,
From his rudeness, one fine summer's morning.
He was taking the air
Upon Trinity Square,
And, as usual, large stones he was jerking;
Till at length a hard cinder
Went plump through a window
Where a party of ladies were working.

Tom's aunt, when in town,
Had left half a crown
For her nephew (her name was Miss Frazier),
Which he thought to have spent,
But now it all went
(And it served him quite right) to the glazier.
Note. — The foregoing story is stated to be“founded on fact. ”
A GUNPOWDER PLOT
“I have got a sad story to tell, ”
Said Betty one day to mamma:
"'Twill be long, ma'am, before John is well,
On his eye is so dreadful a scar.
"Master Wilful enticed him away,
To join with some more little boys;
They went in the garden to play,
And I soon heard a terrible noise.
"Master Wilful had laid a long train
Of gunpowder, ma'am, on the wall;
It has put them to infinite pain,
For it blew up, and injured them all.

"John's eyebrow is totally bare;
Tom's nose is bent out of its place;
Sam Bushy has lost all his hair;
And Dick White is quite black in the face. "
Note. — As a matter of fact, a train ofgunpowder does not make a terrible noise; it makes hardly any noiseat all— a mere pfff! and though John, Sam Bushy, and DickWhite are shown to have been hurt as they might have been, a trainof gunpowder could not bend Tom's nose, it could only burn it.Probably Mrs. Turner did not often play with explosives herself,and therefore did not know. Master Wilful seems to have escapedaltogether.
PETER IMITATES THE CLOWN
Poor Peter was burnt by the poker one day,
When he made it look pretty and red;
For the beautiful sparks made him think it fineplay,
To lift it as high as his head.
But somehow it happen'd his finger and thumb
Were terribly scorched by the heat;
And he scream'd out aloud for his mother tocome,
And stamp'd on the floor with his feet.

Now if Peter had minded his mother's command,
His fingers would not have been sore;
And he promised again, as she bound up his hand,
To play with hot pokers no more.
BEN'S HEAVY PUNISHMENT
'Tis sad when boys are disinclin'd
To benefit by kind advice;
No little child of virtuous mind
Should need receive a caution twice.
The baker on a pony came
(Oft us'd by them, and butchers too),
And little Ben was much to blame
For doing what he should not do.
They told him not to mount the horse;
Alas! he did; away they flew;
In vain he pull'd with all his force,
The pony ran a mile or two.

At length poor little Ben was thrown;
Ah! who will pity? who's to blame?
Alas! the fault is all his own—
Poor little Ben for life is lame!
THE CHIMNEY-SWEEPER
“Sweep! sweep! sweep! sweep! ” cries littleJack,
With brush and bag upon his back,
And black from head to foot;
While daily, as he goes along,
“Sweep! sweep! sweep! sweep! ” is all his song,
Beneath his load of soot.
But then he was not always black.
Oh no! he once was pretty Jack,
And had a kind papa;
But, silly child! he ran to play
Too far from home, a long, long way,
And did not ask mamma.

So he was lost, and now must creep
Up chimneys, crying, “Sweep! sweep! sweep! ”
Note. — This was written in the days whenlittle boys, like Tom in Water Babies , were sent actually upthe chimneys to clean them out.
THE FIGHTING WICKET-KEEPER
In the schoolroom the boys
All heard a great noise.
Charles Moore had just finish'd his writing,
So ran out to play,
And saw a sad fray:—
Tom Bell and John Wilson were fighting.
He cried, "Let's be gone,
Oh, come away, John,
We want you to stand at the wicket;
And you, Master Bell,
We want you as well,
For we're all of us going to cricket.

"Our playmates, no doubt,
Will shortly be out,
For you know that at twelve study ceases;
And you'll find better fun
In play, ten to one,
Than in knocking each other to pieces. "
THE GOOD SCHOLAR
Joseph West had been told,
That if, when he grew old,
He had not learned rightly to spell,
Though his writing were good,
'Twould not be understood:
And Joe said, “I will learn my task well. ”
And he made it a rule
To be silent at school,
And what do you think came to pass?
Why, he learnt it so fast,
That from being the last,
He soon was the first in the class.
THE GOOD SCHOLAR FIGHTS
One afternoon as Joseph West,
The boy who learnt his lesson best,
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