Flared up and then was off!

“ Oh, Minnie,” cried the man in fright,

“ Just hear that walrus cough!”

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Oh, it was just a splendid flight—

That rocket’s wild career!

But to an end it came, all right,

As you shall straightway hear.

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It plunged into a can of cream

That Billy Bunk was freezing,

And froze quite stiff, as it would seem,

And so subsided, wheezing.

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About The Rocket Book

Watch out! A rocket, set off by the janitor’s naughty son down in the basement, interrupts everyone’s day and cases some pretty strange situations, as it passes through twenty floors of apartments. Peter Newell’s’s own delightful illustrations fill the pages of the classic "The Rocket Book", which was one of the earliest ‘picture books’. This first edition from 1912 is guaranteed to still entertain both young and old.