The Complete Works of Lewis Carroll/Rules and Regulations
RULES AND REGULATIONS
A short directionTo avoid dejection,By variationsIn occupations,And prolongationOf relaxation,And combinationsOf recreations,And disputationOn the state of the nationIn adaptationTo your station,By invitationsTo friends and relations,By evitationOf amputation,By permutationIn conversation,And deep reflectionYou'll avoid dejection.
Learn well your grammar,And never stammer,Write well and neatly,And sing most sweetly,Be enterprising,Love early rising,Go walk of six miles,Have ready quick smiles,With lightsome laughter,Soft flowing after,Drink tea, not coffee; Never eat toffy.Eat bread with butter.Once more, don't stutter.Don't waste your money,Abstain from honey.Shut doors behind you,(Don't slam them, mind you.)Drink beer, not porter.Don't enter the waterTill to swim you are able.Sit close to the table.Take care of a candle.Shut a door by the handle.Don't push with your shoulderUntil you are older.Lose not a button.Refuse cold mutton.Starve your canaries.Believe in fairies.If you are able,Don't have a stableWith any mangers.Be rude to strangers.
Moral: Behave.
This work was published before January 1, 1930, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.
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