Best of
Humor
1903
More Goops and How Not to Be Them
Gelett Burgess - 1903
First published in 1903, this second of the well-known Goop books contains many of the funniest and most original of Burgess's famous rhymes.Children and their parents will delight in the antics of these amusing little creatures as they scamper about on every page in hilarious drawings by the author. Eighty seven verses give the "dos and the don'ts" of justice, frankness, "ain't," walking with Papa, piano torture, how to eat soup, books, manners, cheating, visiting, picking and stealing, loyalty, indolence, exaggeration, noise, inquisitiveness, wet feet, and many more.