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Title: The History of Little King Pippin
With an Account of the Melancholy Death of Four Naughty Boys, Who were Devoured by Wild Beasts. And the Wonderful Delivery of Master Harry Harmless, by a Little White Horse.

Author: Thomas Bewick

Release Date: May 12, 2009 [eBook #28768]

Language: English

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[Illustration: A King.]

[Illustration: FRONTISPIECE.

Would you be learned, good, and great,
Our Hero strive to imitate;
For Merit was the only Thing
That made poor Pippin's Son a King.]

THE HISTORY

OF LITTLE

_KING PIPPIN_.

With an Account of the Melancholy Death of

_FOUR NAUGHTY BOYS_,

WHO WERE

_Devoured by Wild Beasts_.

AND THE

Wonderful Delivery of Master Harry Harmless,

by a little

WHITE HORSE.

ORNAMENTED WITH CUTS.

WELLINGTON:
Printed by F. Houlston and Son.

Price Two-pence.

_THE HISTORY_

OF

LITTLE KING PIPPIN.

PETER PIPPIN was the son of Gaffer and Gammer Pippin,

_Who liv'd at the Ivy-house under the hill,
And if they are not gone, they live there still._

[Illustration]

This is the house, and a pretty little snug place it is, and there is
Peter and his father and mother at the door. Daddy, says Peter, I wish I
could have another prett