Name: More Goops and How Not to Be Them: A Manual of Manners for Impolite Infants
Author: Gelett Burgess

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Gelett Burgess, More Goops and How Not to Be Them…

“ PUPPY GOOPS
Candy in the cushions
Of the easy-chair;
Raisins in the sofa—
How did they get there?
The little Goop who's greedy
Does it every day,
Like a little puppy,
Hiding bones away!
EXAGGERATION
Don't try to tell a story
To beat the one you've heard;
For if you try, you're apt to lie,
And that would be absurd!
Don't try to be more funny
Than any one in school;
For if you're not, they'll laugh a lot,
And think you are a fool!
NOISE! NOISE! NOISE!
Do you slam the door?
Do you drag your feet?
Making noise enough for four
Hundred thousand Goops, or more,
Tearing up the street? ”

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Gelett Burgess, More Goops and How Not to Be Them…

“ UNTIDY GOOPS
I think you are a Goop, because
You never shut your bureau drawers,
You do not close the door!
You leave your water in the bowl,
You put your peelings in the coal!
I've told you that before!
A GOOP PARTY
"Please come to my party!" said Jenny to Prue;
"I'm going to have Willy, and Nelly, and you;
I'm going to have candy and cake and ice-cream,
We'll play Hunt-the-Slipper, we'll laugh and we'll scream. ”

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Gelett Burgess, More Goops and How Not to Be Them…

“ Think of the slovenly Goops, before
You strew your clothing on the floor!
DANGER! Ink, ink! What do you think!
You're sure to be stained, if you play with the ink!
You're sure to get black, if you play with the ink-well,
Before you begin it, just stop once, and think well!
All over your fingers, all over your face,
All over your clothes, and all over the place!
Your mother'll be angry, your father'll say, "There!
I said not to touch it; you said you'd take care!"
When Goops are so mischievous, they have to drink
Forty-four dozen bottles of raven black ink! ”

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Gelett Burgess, More Goops and How Not to Be Them…

“ And the Goop began to groan.
PIANO TORTURE
Pianos are considered toys
By Goops, and naughty girls and boys;
They pound upon the keys,
They lift the cover up, on top,
To see the little jiggers hop,
And both the pedals squeeze! ”

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Gelett Burgess, More Goops and How Not to Be Them…

“ Why is it Goops must always wish
To touch each apple on the dish?
Why do they never neatly fold
Their napkins until they are told?
Why do they play with food, and bite
Such awful mouthfuls? Is it right?
Why do they tilt back in their chairs?
Because they're Goops! So no one cares! ”

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Gelett Burgess, More Goops and How Not to Be Them…

“ You who are the tallest,
Don't you think you ought to help
The youngest and the smallest?
You who are the strongest,
You who are the quickest,
Don't you think you ought to help
The weakest and the sickest? ”

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Gelett Burgess, More Goops and How Not to Be Them…

“ Take your punishment, and say,
"I'll be better, now!"
Never mind the horrid way
Brother treated you, at play;
Don't tell it, anyhow!
It is the Goops, who have no shame,
Who say, "'Twas some one else to blame!" ”

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Gelett Burgess, More Goops and How Not to Be Them…

“ MORE GOOPS
and
How Not to Be Them: A Manual of Manners for Impolite Infants
By Gelett Burgess
Books by Gelett Burgess VIVETTE; or the Memoirs of the Romance Association. Small, Maynard & Co., Boston. 152 pp. 8vo. $1.25
A GAGE OF YOUTH; Poems, chiefly from the "Lark." 58 pp. Small 8vo. Small, Maynard & Co., Boston. ”

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Gelett Burgess, More Goops and How Not to Be Them…

“ A Collection of Essays upon the Romantic View of Life. 152 pp. Small 4to. Elder & Shepard, San Francisco. $1.50
THE LIVELY CITY O' LIGG; A Cycle of Modern Fairy Tales for City Children. With 53 illustrations (8 in color) by the Author. Frederick A. Stokes Co., New York. 210 pp. Small 4to. $1.50. Boards, $1.00
THE BURGESS NONSENSE BOOK; Being a complete Collection of the Humorous Masterpieces of Gelett Burgess, Esq. With 196 illustrations by the Author. 239 pp. Small 4to. Frederick A. Stokes Co., New York. Cloth, $2.00 net. Boards, $1.25
GOOPS, and How to Be Them ”

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