She had refused to take her Niece To hear this Entertaining Piece: A Deprivation Just and Wise To Punish her for Telling Lies. That Night a Fire _did_ break out-- You should have heard Matilda Shout! You should have heard her Scream and Bawl, And throw the window up and call To People passing in the Street-- (The rapidly increasing Heat Encouraging her to obtain Their confidence)--but all in vain! For every time She shouted "Fire!" [Illustration] They only answered "Little Liar!" And therefore when her Aunt returned, Matilda, and the House, were Burned. [Illustration] FRANKLIN HYDE, _Who caroused in the Dirt and was corrected by His Uncle._ [Illustration] His Uncle came on Franklin Hyde Carousing in the Dirt. He Shook him hard from Side to Side And [Illustration] Hit him till it Hurt, Exclaiming, with a Final Thud, "Take [Illustration] that! Abandoned Boy! For Playing with Disgusting Mud As though it were a Toy!" MORAL From Franklin Hyde's adventure, learn To pass your Leisure Time In Cleanly Merriment, and turn From Mud and Ooze and Slime And every form of Nastiness-- But, on the other Hand, Children in ordinary Dress May always play with Sand. [Illustration] GODOLPHIN HORNE, _Who was cursed with the Sin of Pride, and Became a Boot-Black._ [Illustration] Godolphin Horne was Nobly Born; He held the Human Race in Scorn, And lived with all his Sisters where His father lived, in Berkeley Square. And oh! the Lad was Deathly Proud! He never shook your Hand or Bowed, But merely smirked and nodded [Illustration] thus: How perfectly ridiculous! Alas! That such Affected Tricks Should flourish in a Child of Six! (For such was Young Godolphin's age). Just then, the Court required a Page, Whereat [Illustration] the Lord High Chamberlain (The Kindest and the Best of Men), He went good-naturedly and [Illustration] took A Perfectly Enormous Book Called _People Qualified to Be Attendant on His Majesty_, And murmured, as he scanned the list (To see that no one should be missed), "There's [Illustration] William Coutts has got the Flue, [Illustration] And Billy Higgs would never do, [Illustration] And Guy de Vere is far too young, [Illustration]