Fifty Fables for Children

Little poems consisting of couplets with two six-line stanzas take on all the moral lessons people wanted to share with young children in 1833.

Keeper

Boy. Keeper, wilt go out walking, sir?
Dog. I'd like to go, but I may not stir.
Boy. Why not? We go but a step or two;
Come, good Doggie, and we'll take you.
Dog. No, no, the house would be left alone,
And a thief could enter while we were gone....