To touch _each_ apple on the dish?
Why do they never neatly fold
Their napkins until they are told?
Why do they play with food, and bite
Such awful mouthfuls? Is it right?
Why do they tilt back in their chairs?
_Because they're Goops!_ So no one cares!




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[Illustration: How to Eat Soup]


_HOW TO EAT SOUP_

Whenever you are eating soup
Remember not to be a Goop!
And if you think to say this rhyme,
Perhaps 'twill help you every time:

_Like little boats that put to sea,
I push my spoon AWAY from me;
I do not tilt my dish, nor scrape
The last few drops, like hungry ape!_

_Like little boats, that, almost filled,
Come back without their cargoes spilled,