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A Moral Alphabet

Hilaire Belloc

Book Overview: 

An alphabet book for children written in a theme that teaches good morals and the right choices.

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .B. B.


Authors of "The Bad Child's Book of Beasts"
"More Beasts for Worse Children"
"The Modern Traveller" etc.




London
EDWARD ARNOLD
37 BEDFORD STREET
1899

[4]

DEDICATION.
——
TO THE GENTLEMAN
ON PAGE 49.

[5]




A

stands for
Archibald who told no lies,
[6]And got this lovely volume for a prize.
The Upper School had combed and oiled their hair,
And all the Parents of the Boys were there.
In words that ring like thunder through the Hall,
[7]Draw tears from some and loud applause from all,—
The Pedagogue, with Pardonable Joy,
Bestows the Gift upon the Radiant Boy:—
"Accept the Noblest Work produced as yet"
(Says he) "upon the English Alphabet;
"Next term I shall examine you, to find
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Community Reviews

Wildly funny and macbre pre-e. gorey humour. In Bellocs world all manner of mishap befall the contumacios child. His prose may seem acrimonious and vituperative, but Belloc possesses a perspicacious wit and alacrity, with which he tenderly disects, and leaves you wanting more.

A fun book for young children to learn poetry.

Funny, and so stylistically charming that it's easy to forgive how uneven it can be. When it works, it flies off the goddamn page.