It tells how Clean Peter brought tidiness to a little town.
"The children out in Grubbylea
Are all as clean as clean can be.
And Peter's living there to-day,
The children begged him so to stay."
BURGESS, GELETT. (p. 35)
*Goops and How To Be Them.
A Manual of Manners for Polite Infants.
Illustrated by the Author.
Stokes. 1.50
If there ever was anyone who could cover little pills with a thick
coating of sugar, it was Mr. Burgess when he wrote these clever verses
and drew these ninety original and always funny pictures. Children
delight in the Goops. It is almost worth while being one to have this
volume of warning thrust into our hands.
"I never knew a Goop to help his mother,
I never knew a Goop to help his dad,
And they never do a thing for one another;
They are actually, absolutely bad!
"If you ask a Goop to go and post a letter,
Or to run upon an errand, _how_ they act!
But somehow I imagine you are better,
And you _try_ to go, and _cry_ to go, in fact!"
BURGESS, GELETT.
*More Goops and How Not To Be Them.
A Manual of Manners for Impolite Infants.
Illustrated by the Author.
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