| Show I 1 ao AD old question asked anew the old question has been lately asked anew why fill the infant mind with images of cruelty and horror why suggest to innocence tho the dreadful vision of ores fattening captives like sheep for their table why torture it with that appalling cabalistic bloody invocation fee faw fum why permit the hoary murderer blue beard to terrify the young before in historical sequence they reach herry VIII in no extenuating 0 page of froude but as the grisly murderer and defender of the faith of the older annals and why perplex the callow pilgrim scarcely embarked on the journey of life which tho the reverend anzi and the wise de describe scribe as a moral warfare by the rhyme which declares the greedy thief of a plum from the copious pudding a goo good 1 boy why is a glutton who triumphs in his gluttony to be commended in honeyed measure aa good while nothing is said in in praise nay he is not even mentioned of the virtue of the unnamed corn coin rade who was undoubtedly present anil aal who restrained his desin to pull out plums and who so far as posterity knows not only had no plum but als also 0 forbore the sauce georgo george lV william illiam curtis in harpers |
