Goops and How to Be Them

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INTRODUCTION

TABLE MANNERS. I.

TABLE MANNERS. II.

CLEANLINESS

NEATNESS

COURTESY

GENEROSITY

CONSIDERATION

MISS MANNERS

BORROWING

MEMORY

BOOKS

HONESTY

" WHY? "

BED-TIME

MODESTY

DISFIGURATION

BRAVERY

TIDINESS

PATIENCE

FORTITUDE

GEORGE ADOLPHUS

POLITENESS

GENTLENESS

HOSPITALITY

PETS

REMEMBER

CURIOSITY

WILLY

CLOTHES

HELPFULNESS

QUIETNESS

ORDER

TEASING

INTERRUPTION

CRY-BABY

CAUTION

TARDINESS

OBEDIENCE

CHURCH HEADACHES

PERSEVERANCE

DOLL-TIME

COMBING and CURLING

CHEERFULNESS





GOOPS
AND HOW TO BE THEM











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

(goops)


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

To Agnes who is Not (always) a Goop!









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.





                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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