Show w rs WHY HE SPANKED THE CHILDREN how the settler prepared the young ones for christmas on the morning of the he t lay day before christmas Chil atmas I 1 dismounted de mounted at the door of a north dakota cabin to inquire the whereabouts of a man living in that neighborhood and the sounds from within told me that one of the children was being spanked when tho the spanking had bad been concluded the settler sether opened the door and invited me in I 1 saw nine children standing up int in a row and the tenth one sitting down on the other side of the room the man thought some explanation should be made and he said its the way I 1 do every christmas k time antill and I 1 had just begun wh when enyou you rode up can you wait till I 1 have spanked the other nine of course but bill may I 1 ask why yott yon do it they look too k to me to be nice well behaved be caved haved children they are as good children as you will find in the state air but the spanking must go on yes the lie spanking must go on added the wife I 1 say any more of course and I 1 went out to the gate and waited the nine were called alp ilp up one efer an other and put through the machine and then the man who was breathing 5 hard from his exertions joined me rt the gate and said k I 1 there the last one of em cm has been licked and now ill show you where brown lives thanks hut but would you take it amiss am as if I 1 asked what your ten children had done to deserve punishment you may ask sir air andi and I 1 will ni ox plain he replied they dano done nothing I 1 w licking lem cm so BO they hoy expect any christmas presents in their StOr kings to tonight night |