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Show WHY MiTi APF SPANKED i How the Settler Prepared the Youno Ones for Christmas. On the morning of the day before Christmas I dismounted at tho door of a. North Dakoto cabin to Inqulro the whereabouts of a man living In that neighborhood, and the sounds from within told me that ono of tho children child-ren was being spanked. When tho spanking had beou concluded the set- tier opened tho door and Invited me In I saw nine children standing up In a row, and the tenth ono sitting down on the other side of the room. The, man thought some explanation should bo mado, and ho said: It's tho way I do overy Christmas tlmo, and 1 had Just beguu when you rode up. Can you wait till 1 have spanked the other nlno?" "Of course, but may I nek why you do It? Thoy look to me to bo nice, well-behaved children." ' nTbrr " nc good children as you will find In tho slate, mi, Wl Uiu , spanking roust go on." I "Ye, the spanking must go on, added tho wife. 1 couldn't say any more, of course, and I went out to tho gMa and waited. Tho nlno wore called up ono after an-othor an-othor and put through the machine, and then tho man. who was broathlng hard from his exertions, Joined me the gato and 6dI1, "There, the last ono of 'cm has I been licked, and now I'll show you I where Drown lives." i "Th.n. hut would you take it amiss If I aBkeil wlmTTOi IUI Willi' ren had done to deserve punishment?" "You may ask, sir, and I will explain." ex-plain." he replied. "They hadn't done nothing. I waB licking 'em so they wouldn't expect any Christmas presents pres-ents in their stockings to-nlghU" |