Moral tales in verse : calculated to please and instruct young children

Moral tales in verse : calculated to please and instruct young children. Embellished with numerous engravings. ''Sixpence.''--foot of t.-p. BM, cited below, dates as 1830. Frontispiece included in pagination. Hodgson conducted business at 10 Newgate Street from 1822-1824; cf. Brown, P. London publishers and printers c. 1800-1870, p. 91. Wood engravings: frontispiece, illustrations, and title vignette. Containing A young man's tribute of gratitude to his patron -- An address to Charles -- Sights in the air -- A pious child's reflections on death -- The drum -- Stage-struck -- The impressed sailor -- The watchman -- Mary Walter -- The artillery-man -- The foolish girl -- Edward and the match-woman -- A tale of a tub -- The fight at ''The Doe'' -- The happy tinker -- The effects of religion -- The impartiality of brute animals -- The light-house -- The soldier's monument -- The priest, and the pastor -- Tom and the bull-dog -- The soldier's life in tent and field -- The storm at night -- The affectionate ophans -- Ignorance of our fate a blessing -- The useless finger-post -- The game cock and the looking-glass -- The tavern, not used but abused -- The grumbling paviour -- Killing time and breaking the Sabbath.