Identifier: bookshelfforboys00univ9 (find matches)
Title: The Bookshelf for boys and girls Children's Book of Fact and Fancy
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: University Society, New York
Subjects: Children's literature Children's encyclopedias and dictionaries Literature Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: New York. : University Society
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University-Idaho, David O. McKay Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University-Idaho

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ed every dayAt some humble cottage along the highway,And begged for his horse the scraps of rich doughWhich all the fair cooks seemed so glad to bestow;But, spite of his courtiers nudges and winks,Preserved his own counsel, close-mouthed as a sphinx;While each damsel tried, as a matter of pride,To see who the largest amount could provide.And his horse, which seemed to approve the whole matter,Kept on every day growing fatter and fatter. Some weeks had thus passed when the caval-cade stoodIn front of a house at the edge of a wood,From whose shadows came tripping a shy little maid.Abashed by the splendor before her displayed.She heard with surprise the kings usual ques-tion,And gasped with dismay at the very suggestion.The scrapings of dough? I m sorry it s so,But I never have even a crumb left, you know:My mother has taught me it s wicked to wasteThe least little fragment of pie-crust or paste. I measure with care the smallest ingredient,To make the amount which she thinks isexpedient.
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