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  Cruel Frederick
  Pauline And The Matches
  The Inky Boys
  The Wild Hunstman's Tale
  The Thumb Sucker
  Augustus Who Would Not Eat
  Fussy Philip
  Hanns Stare- In- The- Air
  Flying Robert

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The Story Of Augustus Who Would Not Eat

Augustus was a chubby lad,
Fat ruddy cheeks Augustus had.
And everybody saw with joy,
The plump and hearty healthy boy.
He ate and drank as he was told,
And never let his soup get cold.
But one day, one cold winter's day,
He pushed his spoon and bowl away!
"I won't have my soup today!
I will not eat it, no I say!"

The next day (as this picture shows).
How lank and lean Augustus grows!
Yet, though he feels so weak and ill,
The naughty fellow cries out still,
"Not any soup for me, I say!
O, take this nasty soup away!"

The third day comes. O, what a sin!
So awful looking, pale and thin.
Yet, when the soup is put on table,
He screams, as loud as he is able,
"Not any soup for me, I say!
O, take the nasty soup away!"

The fourth day now has surely come,
He scarce outweighs a sugar-plum!
He's thiner than a bit of thread,
And on the fifth day he was -- dead.