Goops and How to Be Them: A Manual of Manners for Polite Infants Inculcating Many Juvenile Virtues Both by Precept and Example, With 90 Drawings (Timeless Classics)

Other verses include "Borrowing" ("Didn't you say they were borrowed? You'd better take back just a few. If you lent your playthings, I think you would say things' If no one returned them to you"), "Patience," and "Honesty."

Though nowadays these basic virtues are seldom spoken of by name outside of Sunday school, the Goops's humor and alien-like illustrations kill any inclination toward the saccharine. Instead, we find a cheerful, reasonable description of how to remain Goop-free, at least until adulthood.