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The Victorians experienced a fondness for scaring their offspring straight with cautionary tales - moral stories featuring children who misbehaved and endured the results. Lewis Carroll mocks them gently when he says that Alice "had read several nice little histories about children who experienced received burnt, and ingested up by wild beasts and other annoying things, all because they might not remember the simple rules their friends experienced trained them: such as, a red-hot texas holdem will burn up you if you hold it too much time; which if you lower your finger very deeply with a blade, it usually bleeds; and...if you drink much from a bottle proclaimed 'poison', it is almost certain to disagree to you, ultimately." Hilaire Belloc will go one further. His Cautionary Tales are a parody of the Victorian moral fables: irresistible, irreverent and downright jolly. We meet, among other wonderful people, Jim, who ran away from his nurse, and was ingested with a lion; Henry Ruler, who chewed items of string, and was early take off in dreadful agonies; and Matilda, who informed lays, and was used up to death. Cautionary Tales is a lessons in how to face devastation and catastrophe with United kingdom stoicism and understatement: Now just imagine how it seems
When first your feet and your
And then by steady degrees,
Your shins and ankles, calves and legs,
Are slowly eaten, bit by bit.
No surprise Jim detested it!
