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“The Story of Augustus, Who Would Not Have Any Soup,” from the German of Heinrich Hoffmann (printed in The Home Book of Verse for Young Folks, selected by Burton Egbert Stevenson [New York, 1915], pp. 62-63) Augustus was a chubby lad; Fat, ruddy cheeks Augustus had; And everybody saw with joy...

By the end of this song, Jonathan Davis is seized with pure knick-knack-paddy-whack madness:

Last night, I read the following excellent review by William Darragh in Fortean Times of the 2009 Oxford University Press edition of the fairy tales of Charles Perrault (1628-1703): “Charles Perrault benefitted from the policy of promoting commoners that gradually gave rise to a monarchist...