http://www.sitella.co.uk/sideline/diversions/rwt/index.html
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/13011
This seemed like some practical joke at first but Ms. Favell Lee Mortimer was real. A super-religious Victorian woman, Mortimer wrote nasty, self-righteous travel guides (sampled in a new anthology called The Clumsiest People in Europe) and some jaw-dropping children's books:
"God is on high.
He can see you.
You will die. Men will die."
and
"Six lads got into a waggon to go to a cot far away.
The lads had a sister Nelly.
The lads had a sister Peggy.
The sisters go in the waggon.
Snow drops on the way.
The waggon cannot go on.
The sisters lie in the waggon.
The sisters are frozen. The sisters die. The lads do not die."
Those Victorians knew how to have a good time, eh?