VICE IN ITS PROPER SHAPE

A compilation of eighteenth-century tales about naughty children who die violent deaths (hoist by their own petards) to be reincarnated as pets with their flaws.
The kids have such meaningful names as:

• Dick Lackwit (the leader of the class truants, who persuades weak-willed Jack Idle to skip classes and go fishing with them, which makes Jack drown in the river by accident),
• Dorothy Chatterfast (loves conversation, and is thus branded an outsider in a world where ladies are supposed to be demure. A tattletale who can't keep a single secret, but not discouraged at all when it comes to social life. She dies upon attending a fête in spite of a fever she had got),
• Polly Giddybrains (an absent-minded classmate of Dorothy's, with a penchant for constantly losing things),
• Patty Sweetlips (a rather cute but shy girl, who blushes after a stolen kiss),

Which reminds me of another eighteenth-century moral tale: Tom Jones, in which Reverend Thwackum, for instance, is exactly what his surname says...