He kills melancholy, Charlie’s a popular Coon!

“Charlie the Coon”
Peter Piper’s Peep Show
By: S. H. Hamer.
Illustrations By: Lewis Baumer and Harry B. Neilson.
Cassell and Company Limited: London, Paris, New York, Melbourne. 1906.

Oh, all of us like young Charlie –

Charlie, the smart young Coon:

For he’s fresh and he’s jolly,

He kills melancholy,

Charlie’s a popular Coon.

 

Poor Beast Shall Die Of Grief!

“Your Poor Beast Shall Die of Grief.”
Beauty And The Beast
Once Upon a Time – A Book of Old-Time Fairy Tales.
Edited, With Introduction by Katharine Lee Bates.
Illustrated by Margaret Evans Price.
Rand McNally & Company: Chicago and New York. 1921.

“I would rather die myself, dear Beauty,” replied the Beast, “than to make you unhappy. You may go to your father, and your poor Beast shall die of grief.”

Kick the Duck!

“And the dairy-maid kicked him away with her foot.”
Hans Andersen’s Fairy Tales. By William Woodburn. Illustrated by Gordon Robinson. W. & R. Chambers Limited: London & Edinburgh. 1917.

“The other ducks still bit him, the hens pecked him, and the dairy-maid kicked him away with her foot.

At last he could bear it no longer, and flew away over the hedge. The little birds in the bushes cried out with fear. ‘Ah, it is because I am so ugly,’ thought the poor duckling, as he stole away.”

The Little Mermaid

The Little Mermaid
Hans Andersen’s Fairy Tales. By William Woodburn. Illustrated by Gordon Robinson.
W. & R. Chambers, Limited: London & Edinburgh. 1917.

‘Your beautiful form,’ replied the witch, ‘your graceful movements, and speaking eyes. With such as these, it will be easy to win a vain human heart. Well, now, have you lost courage? Put out your little tongue, that I may cut it off, and take it for myself, in return for my magic drink.’