Do you drag your feet?
Making noise enough for four
Hundred thousand Goops, or more,
Tearing up the street?

Clattering down the stairs,
Storming through the hall,
Pounding floors, upsetting chairs,
Do you think your father cares
For your noise, at all?

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[Illustration: Stealing Rides]

_STEALING RIDES_

I thought I saw a little Goop
Who hung behind a cart;
I looked again. He'd fallen off!
It gave me _such_ a start!
"If he were killed, some day," I said,
"'Twould break his mother's heart!"

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[Illustration: Untidy Goops]

_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!

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[Illustration: A Goop Party]

_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.
We'll dress up in caps, we'll have stories and tricks,
And you won't have to go till a quarter past six!"
But alas! When she mentioned her party, at tea,
Her mother said, "No! It can't possibly be!"
So Jane had to go and explain to her friends,
And that is how many a Goop party ends!
Just speak to your mother _before_ you invite,
And then it's more likely to happen all right!

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[Illustration: Inquisitiveness]

_INQUISITIVENESS_

I gave a letter to a Goop
To take to Mrs. Bird;
And what d'you think he went and did?
He read it, every word!
Now, isn't that the rudest thing
That you have ever heard?

Why, he would peep through keyholes,
And listen at the door!
And open parcels, just to see
What came from every store!

Now, have you ever _ever_ heard
Of such a Goop before?

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[Illustration: Don't be Good]

_DON'T BE GOOD_

Just because you want to go
To the circus, or the show;
But, when all your fun is o'er,
Be as good as you were before!

[Illustration: Don't be Bad]

_DON'T BE BAD_

Just as long as you dare to be,
Because your mother doesn't see.
Do not wait for her to scold,
But be just as good as gold!

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