“A Cursory Nursery Tale“ by Ogden Nash

First published in The Saturday evening post, Nov. 9, 1957 I intended a somewhat Churchillian delivery of the last line... The paintings are: “Boy and Rabbit“, 1814, Sir Henry Raeburn, “Still-Life with Insects and Amphibians“, 1662, Otto Marseus van Schrieck, “Fox in the Courtyard“, 1746, Philipp Ferdinand de Hamilton. Once there was a kind-hearted lad named Jack Do-Good-for-Nothing, the only son of a poor widow whom creditors did importune, So he set out in the wor