StoryTitle("caps", "Charles Augustus Fortescue") ?>
Who Always Did what was Right, and so Accumulated
an Immense Fortune
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PoemLine("L0", "", "The nicest child I ever knew ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Was Charles Augustus Fortescue. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He never lost his cap, or tore ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "His stockings or his pinafore: ", "") ?>
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PoemLine("L0", "", "In eating Bread he made no Crumbs, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He was extremely fond of sums, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To which, however, he preferred ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The Parsing of a Latin Word—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He sought, when it was within his power, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For information twice an hour, ", "") ?>
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PoemLine("L0", "", "And as for finding Mutton-Fat ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Unappatising, far from that! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He often, at his Father's Board, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Would beg them, of his own accord, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To give him, if they did not mind, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The Greasiest Morsels they could find—", "") ?>
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PoemLine("L0", "", "His Later Years did not belie ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The Promise of his Infancy. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In Public Life he always tried ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To take a judgement Broad and Wide; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In Private, none was more than he ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Renowned for quiet courtesy. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He rose at once in his Career, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And long before his Fortieth Year ", "") ?>
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PoemLine("L0", "", "Had wedded Fifi, Only Child ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Of Bunyan, First Lord Aberfylde. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He thus became immensely Rich, ", "") ?>
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PoemLine("L0", "", "And built the Splendid Mansion which ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Is called The Cedars, Muswell Hill, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Where he resides in affluence still, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To show what everybody might ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Become by Simply Doing Right.", "") ?>
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