Mrs. Turner's Cautionary Stories

I. The Flamp, The Ameliorator, and The Schoolboy's Apprentice. Written by E. V. LUCAS.
II. Mrs. Turner's Cautionary Stories
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The sixty-nine Cautionary Stories that follow have been chosen from five books by Mrs. Elizabeth Turner, written for the pleasure and instruction of our little grandparents and great-grandparents. The books are The Daisy , The Cowslip , The Crocus , The Pink and Short Poems . Between the years 1810 and 1850 they were on the shelves of most nurseries, although now they are rarely to be met with. There was also The Rose , but from that nothing has been taken for these pages, nor are the original pictures again offered. Except for these pictures, a frequent change of title, and a few trifling alterations for grammar's sake, the pieces selected are now printed exactly as at first.
Mrs. Turner's belief, as stated by Master Robert in the verses called Books better than Toys in The Pink , was that the children of her day, when they had money to spend and wanted a real treat, could not choose anything more suitable than her Cautionary Stories. The piece runs:
'My dear, as Robert is so good, I'll give him what I said I would, Two shillings for himself to spend; He knows the shop of our good friend.'
'Yes, I know well the pretty shop Where folks, you know, so often stop To view the prints. The windows—look!— Are filled with toys and many a book.
'They have a thousand books and toys For little girls and little boys; At toys, indeed, I love to look , But I prefer to buy a book.
'These two bright shillings, I suppose Will buy The Cowslip and The Rose ; And when two more I get, I think I'll buy The Daisy and The Pink .'