Show things at mother knows it s strange how much my mother knows bout naughty things I 1 do and eiery night when I 1 m in bed she tells em just as true she s got some way of finding out blat s secret I 1 suppose but t macci a feller awful shamed the things his mother knows like how I 1 hooked some cake one night and took it up to bed nd ate some fore I 1 went to sleep next night my mother said I 1 s her by the naughty tl ings I 1 almost always do and talked about bad dreams and crumbs I 1 don t see how she knew and when I 1 m sent to brush my teeth and hunted most to death I 1 souse my tongue with so she can smell my breath tl en hurry oft she calls me back and looks me through and through and bays now go and brush your teeth I 1 don t see how she knew I 1 and when in an awful rush and cut dessert some day ma says that I 1 may be excused hen when she looks away I 1 throw my napkin on the floor As other fellers do she calls me back to told it up I 1 don t see bow she knew and once when I 1 played postman and out of mother s drawer took lots of letters notes and things when not a person saw and left them at the neighbors doors As other post mans do she had to go and find it it I 1 don t see bow she kne sometimes she spanks me good and haicl sometimes I 1 m sent to bed but of fenest I 1 get an awful to instead so I 1 ve about made up my mind the kind of things to do are those it wouldn t make me shamed know my mother knew mrs N stiles |