Show HE W WAITED AIT TOO LONG After Getting Getting- a 0 Sound und Licking froze fron Ills 1515 hey DOT a 0 Detroit Father Agrees with Halt Half L This story ld by the Detroit Free kree free Press of a tain East t end father fath fath- er who had p p wayward and growing boy The more more th boy grew and he promised to t tco Become co a fo strapping fel fellow fellow fellow fel- fel low the mo more e wayward he seemed The mother repeatedly warned her husband that unless he took the boy in hand and exercised more rigid pa parental parental parental rental discipline e he would b be s sorry rry for it But the father was care careless ss and lenient and did not b beGOT blY be y GOT ASKED HARRY lieve in the the spare the child prin principle The lad recently reached his sixteenth sL birthday and and he fittingly celebrated it by committing committing commit commit- tin ting some flagrantly vicious act that taxed his his' in indulgent fathers father's patience e eto to the limit Enraged the father peeled off ore his coat and said determinedly de de- de Harry I promised you a trouncing ing fur a n good many miny yea years rs r's and now nov I Im I'm m goin a to give gile ye the a boy ever er got Git ready There here was Was Wasn a n quiet challenge an In the boys boy's eye as he lie saw saw his father lather reach for the neglected long-neglected birch With an unpracticed sweep the old man laid on De Before ore he be could repeat the infliction he found himself grabbed by the collar and he was soon whirling about in the strong- strong arm embrace embra of his athletic young youngson son Struggle as he would the father could not release himself and ho he was soon nil all points down on the floor of the len Got asked the young rascal Ye Yep gasped the father Yes Marth Marthy he ho panted youre Joure right Ive I've waited too gosh danged long Mother and father ha have ha e no great hopes bopes for the boy and the they arc ate seriously seriously seri seri- ou IJ thinking of n allowing g. g him to train for some athletic pursuit |