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The White Man's Foot

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Illustrated by J. Finnemore

(1888)

Dedication:

TO JERRARD GRANT ALLEN, the only begetter of these ensuing adventures.

My Dear Grantie, From the following pages, written with a single eye to your own personal tastes and predilections, you may, I trust, learn three Great Moral Lessons.

First, never to approach too near the edge of an active volcano.

Second, never to continue your intimacy with a man who deliberately and wickedly declines to pull you out of a burning crater.

And third, never to intrust the care of youth to a cannibal heathen South Sea Islander.

With the trifling exception of these three now enumerated, I am not aware that you can extract any Great Moral Lesson whatsoever from the hairbreadth escapes of Kea and her associates.

Having thus almost entirely satisfied your expressed wishes in this matter-for "a story without a moral"-I subscribe myself, with pride,

Your obedient servant and very loving father,

G.A.

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Subscribe for ad free access & additional features for teachers. Authors: 267, Books: 3,607, Poems & Short Stories: 4,435, Forum Members: 71,154, Forum Posts: 1,238,602, Quizzes: 344 From the following pages, written with a single eye to your own personal tastes and predilections, you may, I trust, learn three Great Moral Lessons. Second, never to continue your intimacy with a man who deliberately and wickedly declines to pull you out of a burning crater. With the trifling exception of these three now enumerated, I am not aware that you can extract any Great Moral Lesson whatsoever from the hairbreadth escapes of Kea and her associates. Having thus almost entirely satisfied your expressed wishes in this matter-for "a story without a moral"-I subscribe myself, with pride, Art of Worldly Wisdom Daily In the 1600s, Balthasar Gracian, a jesuit priest wrote 300 aphorisms on living life called "The Art of Worldly Wisdom." Join our newsletter below and read them all, one at a time. Email: Sonnet-a-Day Newsletter Shakespeare wrote over 150 sonnets! Join our Sonnet-A-Day Newsletter and read them all, one at a time. Email:

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