Comments on: Monday poem | Jim, by Hilaire Belloc https://www.jamesramsden.com/2010/09/13/monday-poem-jim-by-hilaire-belloc/ Small Adventures In Cooking Tue, 19 Jul 2011 20:46:06 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 By: Jim: A Cautionary Tale | Musings of a librarian https://www.jamesramsden.com/2010/09/13/monday-poem-jim-by-hilaire-belloc/#comment-3106 Tue, 19 Jul 2011 20:46:06 +0000 http://www.jamesramsden.com/?p=1705#comment-3106 […] tale of a small boy who escapes his nurse and well, you will see (if you don’t already know). The poem is one of Belloc’s Cautionary Tales, first published in 1907. You can read all of them if […]

]]> By: jamesramsden https://www.jamesramsden.com/2010/09/13/monday-poem-jim-by-hilaire-belloc/#comment-2069 Tue, 14 Sep 2010 10:21:56 +0000 http://www.jamesramsden.com/?p=1705#comment-2069 In reply to Helen.

I was trying to recite it on Saturday night, you must have missed it. That said, I was talking quite a lot of nonsense on Saturday night so it might have blended in with the rest. J

]]> By: jamesramsden https://www.jamesramsden.com/2010/09/13/monday-poem-jim-by-hilaire-belloc/#comment-2068 Tue, 14 Sep 2010 10:21:20 +0000 http://www.jamesramsden.com/?p=1705#comment-2068 In reply to mehrunnisa.

I love it that everyone gets nostalgic over this poem, thanks for reading, J

]]> By: jamesramsden https://www.jamesramsden.com/2010/09/13/monday-poem-jim-by-hilaire-belloc/#comment-2067 Tue, 14 Sep 2010 10:20:42 +0000 http://www.jamesramsden.com/?p=1705#comment-2067 In reply to Nora.

I used to have the edition illustrated by Quentin Blake. Marvelous. Glad you enjoy, J

]]> By: jamesramsden https://www.jamesramsden.com/2010/09/13/monday-poem-jim-by-hilaire-belloc/#comment-2066 Tue, 14 Sep 2010 10:18:47 +0000 http://www.jamesramsden.com/?p=1705#comment-2066 In reply to Rachel K.

That’s the reaction I was going for. I love that poem so much. It’s probably second only to Milne’s ‘The king asked the queen and the queen asked the dairymaid’ etc etc. J

]]> By: Helen https://www.jamesramsden.com/2010/09/13/monday-poem-jim-by-hilaire-belloc/#comment-2065 Mon, 13 Sep 2010 19:37:26 +0000 http://www.jamesramsden.com/?p=1705#comment-2065 I had completely forgotten about this poem and it was so far gone I didn’t even realise I knew it until halfway through. How bizarre. It’s brilliant.

]]> By: mehrunnisa https://www.jamesramsden.com/2010/09/13/monday-poem-jim-by-hilaire-belloc/#comment-2064 Mon, 13 Sep 2010 14:30:14 +0000 http://www.jamesramsden.com/?p=1705#comment-2064 total blast from the past. absolutely love it!! reminds me of my mum reading it out to me.

]]> By: Nora https://www.jamesramsden.com/2010/09/13/monday-poem-jim-by-hilaire-belloc/#comment-2063 Mon, 13 Sep 2010 12:01:31 +0000 http://www.jamesramsden.com/?p=1705#comment-2063 Oh my God, I used to love this poem! Though possibly not as much as my parents used to love telling it me – they always seemed to really relish the bit where he gets eaten by the lion. It’s so good to read it again. 😀

]]> By: Rachel K https://www.jamesramsden.com/2010/09/13/monday-poem-jim-by-hilaire-belloc/#comment-2062 Mon, 13 Sep 2010 08:00:11 +0000 http://www.jamesramsden.com/?p=1705#comment-2062 Just saw your post and spluttered into my morning tea! Thank you. I adore Hilaire Belloc. My earliest memories are of my father reading the Cautionary Tales to me and how funny they were. Admittedly some of them are a bit dated now but I still laugh at Sarah Byng (who couldn’t was illiterate and nearly gored by a bull) and the tale of the frog . . . 🙂

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