Show i Moral Coward Has Prototype In Early Rhyme By OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON In our anthology of Mother Goose characters we come to Georgie Porgy who kissed the girls and made mado them cry What kind of a ayoung ayoung young oung libertine was vas he be anyway Maybe Maybo girls dont don't cry any more when they're kissed but G. G P. P was wasa a 5 Don Juan anyway Til rn bet Maybe May May- be he ran away awny because he be was afraid of all the dads But personally per per- I think he w was s just a moral coward toward who was wa-s afraid of his own act and couldn't face tace even a tongue lashing It was after the episode of the busses after alter the girls had got together and talked things over and come to some plan of revenge that our hero disappeared Punishment Dodgers 17 Yes es I think Georgie was just one more little boy who couldn't take it itHe He went vent about the world picking on younger fellows and manhandling manhandling manhandling man man- handling girls but when It came cameto cameto cameto to taking his medicine he sneaked Such a child never kicks a big dog The dog can bite back Never teases any anyone ne but babies because sometime he might find frogs In his own bed Never does anything lie be cant can't scoot away from in hi a hurr hurry If hes he's caught up wIth hes he's the first to yell Mama mama Johnny bit hit me We Ve cant can't expect our young hopefuls hopefuls hopefuls hope hope- fuls to stand up and say I 1 did It with my little hatchet father But we can and should try to give the offspring some lome idea of retribution Things we do have results They ar are Inescapable If we dont don't want any hangovers of pun punishment or conscience we must behave our our- ur- ur selves Here Is JJ a moral with a veng yeng ven- ven yen ven g ance But it is more than that The whole hole credo makes for tor stamina and nd reduces the shade of ochre in every human makeup If Georgie had just stood h his l ground and said to himself Here come the Irons flat and rolling- rolling pins but it was worth it ft maybe wed we'd admire him hint more more I T dont don't know After all there is I such a at thing as being a ninny As for the girls no doubt they were tickled ticked to death but they just had to to- put pub up a show because they w were rc girls After all maybe Georgie was so sorry for what he did that he just couldn't bear It But I 1 still think he e was a coward and a cheat and and a boy I cant can't like Ge Georgie or any of his kind And I Iwo Iwonder Iwonder wo wonder der who told the story I bet bethe he lie did at that His kind does Ready Ever Alibis Well our Georgie must be grown grownup tip up by this time I 1 wonder if he is selling gold bricks to customers and th then n getting out of town or running running running run run- ning over people and then beating it or just bulldozing his wife wile Be Beure sure ure whatever he is he always has hasan hasan hasan an excellent alibi Also be sure he Is an and a He has harns a defense mechanism of bra Ibra vado He has a pile of ready-made ready excuses that tha would woula reach to the moon He e is a moral coward who hasn't any chin Mother Goose was warning us about our children Have a e we heard |