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diff --git a/29367.txt b/29367.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9447914 --- /dev/null +++ b/29367.txt @@ -0,0 +1,886 @@ +Project Gutenberg's Humpty Dumpty's Little Son, by Helen Reid Cross + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Humpty Dumpty's Little Son + +Author: Helen Reid Cross + +Release Date: July 10, 2009 [EBook #29367] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HUMPTY DUMPTY'S LITTLE SON *** + + + + +Produced by David Edwards and the Online Distributed +Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was +produced from images generously made available by The +Internet Archive) + + + + + + + +[Illustration: THE DUMPY BOOKS FOR CHILDREN + +HUMPTY DUMPTY'S LITTLE SON + +HELEN R. 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MARTIN'S LANE, W.C. + + + + +HUMPTY DUMPTY'S +LITTLE SON. + + + + +EDMUND EVANS, LTD. +ENGRAVERS AND PRINTERS +THE RACQUET COURT PRESS +SWAN STREET, LONDON, S.E. + + + + +[Illustration] + + + + + HUMPTY + DUMPTY'S + LITTLE + SON. + + by + Helen Reid Cross. + + + CHATTO & WINDUS: + LONDON. 1907. + + + + +HUMPTY DUMPTY'S LITTLE SON. + + + "Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, + Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. + All the King's horses, and all the King's men, + Couldn't put Humpty Dumpty together again." + + +After Humpty Dumpty fell off the wall and all the King's horses and all +the King's men could not put him together again, Little Dumpty +lived with his Mother, who was called Widow Dumpty, and went to school +every day. He set off in good time every morning--even if it was +_pouring_ with rain. He had a great many friends at school, and the boys +liked him because he always had plenty of marbles, and used to carry +sticky labels in his pocket; he got them out of his Mother's shop, and +gave them as prizes for racing and jumping in play time. + + +[Illustration] + + +[Illustration] + + +Little Dumpty was a little bit like a _nice_ goblin, it was therefore +very interesting to his school fellows to have him for a chum, and the +funny part about him was that he never took his hat off. Of course no +one said anything about it, but they just remembered that his Father +was an egg, and got cracked and broken, and they thought that had +something to do with it. + +Well, I will tell you how Little Dumpty used to spend his time. In +summer he used to get up quite early, because he had to feed his pets +before breakfast. He had a lot of pets in the yard at the back of the +house. He had guinea-pigs, of course, then he had three rabbits and a +pair of dormice and a canary; and he had some pigeons. They were rather +a bother to him, because they had a nasty habit of flying down the +parlour chimney, where sometimes they stuck for two or three days, and +at last flew out all black and sooty into the room. Widow Dumpty +used to be rather angry and spoke crossly when this happened, and then +Little Dumpty used to get up and go out and feed his rabbits, which is +what he generally did when he wasn't very happy. Well, then he had a +tame hen and some silkworms. Once he had a baby chicken, but it ate some +blue chalk, which Dumpty had dropped on the ground, and died. He did +all he could to keep it alive but it was no good. He was very sorry +about it, because he had often longed for a little chicken of his own; +besides his Mother had told him that when it grew up it would be a +swimming chicken. It was a pity too he dropped the chalk, because it got +trodden on and spoilt, and it had been his favourite chalk. + + +[Illustration] + + +[Illustration] + + +Well, as I was saying, first he had to feed his pets and to water his +garden before the sun got too hot: and by then it was time for +breakfast. He and his Mother were always very happy at breakfast (except +when there was a pigeon in the chimney). Generally they talked about the +garden, and when the seeds were coming up Widow Dumpty used to send +Little Dumpty running out to chivvy off the sparrows and starlings who +wanted to eat all the young sprouts. In the spring they talked about +tadpoles, and wondered how long it would be before they lost their +tails; and in the summer time they wondered when Little Dumpty would +get a bath; and in the autumn they talked about the circus which was +coming; and in the winter about their "poetry" which they made up, or +about the bulbs in the pots at the window, which always looked like +blooming for Christmas, and never _did_ bloom till March. Oh, and lots +of other things! + + +[Illustration] + + +[Illustration] + + +Little Dumpty generally had bread and milk for breakfast and finished +up with honey--for Mrs. Dumpty kept dear little bees in her garden, so +there was always plenty of that:--but on Sundays Dumpty had a poached +egg for breakfast, for a treat. When he'd done his breakfast Dumpty used +to have to look sharp and open the shop for his Mother and sweep the +step, and by then it was time for school, so he got his books together +and trotted off. + +He used always to meet his "chum" on the way; _his_ name was Binkie, and +he lived with his father at the Blacksmith's--his father _was_ the +Blacksmith, and there was no Mrs. Blacksmith because she was dead, but +Binkie's aunt, who was a very kind lady, used to take care of Binkie; +_her_ name was Miss Amelia Bloater. + +Well, every morning Binkie and Dumpty trudged off to school together. +Dumpty's favourite lesson was writing, he simply _loved_ doing copies, +and once he got a prize for writing; he was quite delighted about it, +and often wished he could get another, and after being at school four +years, at last he did--that was for scripture. + + +[Illustration] + + +[Illustration] + + +Dumpty used to stay at school all day and had dinner with the big boys; +in the afternoon there was "prep," and at four o'clock school was over +and all the boys were jolly glad. + +On his way home from school Dumpty used to stop and get cow-parsley for +his rabbits, and when silkworms were "in" he used to have to go into +Binkie's garden to get mulberry leaves, because Binkie's father had a +mulberry tree in his garden and Dumpty's Mother hadn't. One day when +Dumpty got in from school he found that a horrid great rat had got into +the empty hutch where he kept all his grain for feeding his pets and had +eaten it all and bitten one of the baby pigeons! He was so sad about +it--but Binkie's father soon brought in his dogs and they caught the +nasty rat. Dumpty's Mother often said she didn't know what she would do +without her kind neighbour the Blacksmith. + +Well, by the time Master Dumpty got in from school it was pretty well +tea time, and in the summer he and his Mother often had it in the +garden, not _too_ far from the house, so that if anyone came into the +shop they could hear, that is to say they _might_ hear if he banged on +the counter loud, or shut the shop door with a slam;--then Dumpty would +run fast and serve in the shop for his Mother. Sometimes the customers +were such a long time choosing a peppermint stick or a few glass +beads that Dumpty thought he should never get back to his tea;--and they +had radishes and lettuce out of their own garden. And directly after tea +Little Dumpty did _just_ what he liked till bed-time. + + +[Illustration] + + +[Illustration] + + +I must tell you now about the things Little Dumpty _did_ like: there +were lots of things, and he liked them all in turn. + +One thing he loved was ponding, which began as soon as the days were +warm enough. He used to go with a net and a little tin pail and catch +all kinds of fish and little insects out of the pond and put them in his +aquarium, but he called it his "acquair." His "acquair" was a glass +bell stood on its end and filled at the bottom with sand, and on top +with water for the things to swim about in. Minnows, and sometimes +sticklebats (but not _generally_ sticklebats, because, though they +looked nice they used to eat up the other things so), and of course +tadpoles (when they were "in") and water-snails with pointed shells and +caddis-worms and water boatmen, and "little reddies"--oh! and anything +he caught in his net. Little Dumpty used to bring them all home in his +pail and keep them in the "acquair." + +That's what Little Dumpty and his Mother used to talk about at +breakfast, "how long before the tadpoles lost their tails." + + +[Illustration] + + +[Illustration] + + +Once when Mrs. Dumpty went away to see a sick friend and Dumpty was +left all to himself he thought he would have a lovely acquair in the +middle of his own garden, just like a real pond, so he dug a big hole +and planted ferns round it, and then he got a big bath and put it in the +hole he had dug, and filled it with water; and it looked grand, and +Dumpty thought some rocks in the middle of the pond would look grander +still, so he got some clinkers and with great trouble managed to push +them right out to the middle, he was just putting in the last one when +he toppled and fell splash-bash right into the water. He was in an awful +mess when he got out! And his Mother, who came home just at that minute, +was very angry with him. Poor Little Dumpty was very sad and ashamed of +himself. + + +[Illustration] + + +[Illustration] + + +The CIRCUS always came to Eggy in the autumn, and as Little Dumpty's +birthday was on October 31st his Mother always let him go to it for a +birthday treat. He and Binkie used to go together. It was lovely fun +first of all to go round by the tents and see the men getting ready for +the Show. Little Dumpty felt that he knew quite a lot of what went on +behind the scenes, for one day a man who was putting up the tents let +him hold his hammer for him. Dumpty saw him afterwards playing in the +band and gave him a little nod, but the man was too busy to see him. It +disappointed Dumpty rather. The Circus was always a treat, but the +best part was when the clown with the performing pony said, "Now +Topsy"--that was the pony's name--"you just show me who you think would +make the finest soldier in all this audience," and the pony ran straight +across the ring and nodded its head at Dumpty! It pleased him, because +Dumpty always said he was going to be a soldier when he grew up, and he +often played at being one. That pony knew lots of things, it could say +what the time was, and could tell how many of the Kings of England had +been named Edward, but when the clown asked the pony "who was the +butcher's sweetheart?" Topsy made a great mistake and all the people +laughed, for he went and nodded at Binkie's grown-up sister, and she had +_always_ promised to marry Dumpty when he was big enough. + +But I think Little Dumpty liked the winter evenings best of all, when he +and his Mother were so cosy in the little kitchen at the back of the +shop. They used to have great games together. Dumpty had his own +circus, and gave grand performances to his Mother. She used to sit in +the "Royal Box" (which was the corner with a shawl round it, and a +cushion for her feet). She dressed him a little doll, who was master of +the ring, and he had lots of animals in his procession. Two elephants +and a bear on hind legs, and a bear on four legs, a zebra, a tiger, +a big squirrel, some tin horses, and some lovely horses covered with +real hair, a set of performing frogs, and oh! heaps more. + + +[Illustration] + + +[Illustration] + + +Then for the performance he would sing, and recite the pieces of poetry +which he and his Mother had made up (that's what I told you they talked +about at breakfast). For instance, there were two geese in a pen which +you wound up, and Dumpty would put on a quackie voice and say:-- + + + Some mischief sure will Satan find + For idle hands--however sweet, + So in your idle moments wind + My little geese, and watch them eat. + + And as you wind, this lesson good + Ma' rag-time geese would teach to thee; + Never to grab or snatch your food, + However hungry you may be. + + +Then he had some performing mice in a cage, with clockwork inside, and +as he wound them up he sang:-- + + + Oh, three performing mice are we, + And when you wind us up you see, + We twirl and twiddle round the cage, + And play at leap-frog on the stage. + And when the master of the ring, + Commands us, we can also sing + That story sad--though true to life, + Of Blind Mice, and the Farmer's wife. + + +[Illustration] + + +[Illustration] + + +And then Little Dumpty and his mother sang "Three Blind Mice" together, +very slowly and sadly:-- + + + Three Blind Mice! + See how they run! + They all ran after the Farmer's Wife, + Who cut off their tails with the carving knife, + Did you ever see such a thing in your life + As three Blind Mice? + + +When he got all his horses on the stage (he put the skin ones in front +because they were the loveliest), he used to pretend they danced while +he whistled a tune on the penny whistle. + +Then there was a china girl with a parachute; when she was on the stage +Little Dumpty recited the piece called "Isabella's Parachute" out of a +favourite book he had called "Cautionary Stories":-- + + + Once as little Isabella + Ventured with a large umbrella, + Out upon a rainy day + She was nearly blown away. + + Sadly frightened then was she, + For 'twas very near the sea, + And the wind was very high, + But, alas! no friend was nigh. + + Luckily her good mamma + Saw her trouble from afar; + Running just in time, she caught her + Pretty little flying daughter. + + +And if he got an encore, which he often did for this piece, for he +_loved_ saying it, he used to tell the story of Robert:-- + + +[Illustration] + + +[Illustration] + + + When the rain comes tumbling down + In the country or the town, + All good little girls and boys + Stay at home and mind their toys. + + Robert thought,--"No, when it pours, + It is better out of doors." + Here you see him, silly fellow, + Underneath his red umbrella. + + Now look at the silly fellow, + The wind has caught his red umbrella, + Up he flies to the skies; + No one hears his screams and cries. + + No one ever yet could tell + Where he stopped, or where he fell: + Only, this one thing is plain, + Bob was never seen again! + + +And they always used to finish up with the black nigger girl on +horseback:-- + + + Dis yah am de niggah gal + Come to say good night, + Wishin' all de picanninies + Dreams of fairies bright. + Wishin' all de niggah boys, + Plently laugh and fun, + Wishin' dat this circus game + Was only jus' begun, + 'Stead of bein' as 'tis now, + Finished, when I've made my bow. + + +Then Little Dumpty made her jump up on the bareback horse and bow to his +Mother. + +At half-past seven Dumpty had to "prepare," as he said, that is he had +to begin to think about bed, just so that bed-time shouldn't come when +he was in the middle of something _very_ interesting, and at a quarter +to eight he had to go. He gave his Mother a kiss, and often when he +had been very good and happy she gave him an acid drop to suck when he +was in bed. + + +[Illustration] + + +[Illustration] + + +Well, of course there were lots more things Little Dumpty used to do: I +can't tell them all because it would take too long if I were to tell you +all about his chalks and his paints and his stone bricks and his silver +paper ball and his kite--why it would fill ever so many books, but I +_must_ tell you one thing more and that is about his card houses. He was +better at that than at anything, and one night his Mother offered a +prize of a cake of new emerald green paint if he could build eight +houses. And he _did_. He tried ever so many times; and his Mother had +to let him sit up a little later because just as he had got to the sixth +storey safely, safely, after striving very much, the clock struck a +quarter to eight. It would have been too bad to send him off then, when +he longed to do it so. It quite made his fingers tremble to put on the +last card. It was a good thing he succeeded that once, for he never did +it again, and he _did_ want the green paint so! + + +[Illustration] + + + + + +End of Project Gutenberg's Humpty Dumpty's Little Son, by Helen Reid Cross + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HUMPTY DUMPTY'S LITTLE SON *** + +***** This file should be named 29367.txt or 29367.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/2/9/3/6/29367/ + +Produced by David Edwards and the Online Distributed +Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was +produced from images generously made available by The +Internet Archive) + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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