CAUTIONARY VERSES

This volume contains all of the old favorites over which Hilaire Belloc’s admirers have been chuckling since the end of the 19th century—and the original illustrations by B.T.B. and Nicolas Bentley. It also contains many later verses in the same sly vein.   Here you meet again the Horrible Examples (old favorites if you are very fortunate): Matilda , who told lies and was Burned to Death; Sarah Byng , who could not read and was tossed into a Thorny Hedge by a Bull; Lord Henry Chase , who go