Goops and How to Be Them

by Gelett Burgess · language: en

Vocabulary level: Elementary · Flesch–Kincaid grade 7 · 121 sentences

Vocabulary level is estimated from word frequency, not an official CEFR classification.

Subjects: Etiquette · Etiquette — Juvenile poetry · Etiquette for children and teenagers

Words worth knowing: plaything · crumb · candy · spill · comb · cautious · dirt · doll

GOOPS AND HOW TO BE THEM A Manual of Manners for Polite Infants Inculcating many Juvenile Virtues Both by Precept and Example With Ninety Drawings By GELETT BURGESS NEW YORK Frederick A. Stokes Company Publishers COPYRIGHT, 1900, BY GELETT BURGESS TWENTY-THIRD PRINTING, MAY 9, 1935 Printed in the United States of America TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction Page 1 Table Manners--I 3 Table Manners--II 5 Cleanliness 7 Neatness 9 Courtesy 11 Generosity 13 Consideration 15 Miss Manners 17 Borrowing 19 Memory 21 Books 23 Honesty 25 "Why?"

27 Bed-Time 29 Modesty 31 Disfiguration 33 Bravery 35 Tidiness 37 Patience 39 Fortitude 41 George Adolphus 43 Politeness 45 Gentleness 47 Hospitality 49 Pets 51 Remember 53 Curiosity 55 Willy 57 Clothes 59 Helpfulness 61 Quietness 63 Order 65 Teasing 67 Interruption 69 Cry-Baby 71 Caution 73 Tardiness 75 Obedience 77 Church Headaches 79 Perseverance 81 Doll-Time 83 Combing and Curling 85 Cheerfulness 87 Of these Rhymes, ten first appeared in "St. Nicholas," and are here reprinted by permission of the Century Company.

INTRODUCTION Let me introduce a Race Void of Beauty and of Grace, Extraordinary Creatures With a Paucity of Features.

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