Children’s books used to be hard core

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Original post here. Sourced to archive.org via greatgrottu. Original text:

geisterseher:

Echoes from Storyland. New York: McLoughlin Brothers (1880s)

So she was burnt with all her clothes
And arms, and hands, and eyes, and nose;
Till she had nothing more to lose.
Except her little scarlet shoes :
And nothing else but these were found,
Among her ashes on the ground.

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