Excerpt from Old Fashioned Stories and Poems How all children chastised should be; And therefore, children, look that ye do well, And no hard beating shall ye befall. Such volumes as these may have been exceedingly instructive, but I doubt whether any child was ever so fond Of them as to carry them Off to some distant garret, so he could read and read and read Without fear Of being interrupted. Robinson Crusoe, Gulliver's Travels, The Pilgrim's Progress. And Goody two-shoes had been Written; but save for these and a very few others, a child might have followed along the shelves Of many a library and found hardly a volume that would make him feel as if he could not help reading it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Stories and Poems for Children About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.