Show another change of the times nurses and parents do not frighten children so much nowadays non with foolish stories as they did a generation or two ago aldren are not terrified terr ined into being good but in the remoter country places this objectionable and dangerous form of tyranny still lingers in parts of scotland the bodach still has his terrors tor for youngsters the chief of these specters is the son of platter pool from gray spike silken spike great cater pillar there I 1 Is almost a shakespearean tion about the name this terrific bugbear peers in ili at windows flattens his wicked face against the pine sharpens his teeth with murderous dis ness and carries away crying or noisy cliff dren in a twinkling but he n never ever enters a house without being called the threat th reat to summon him Is enough and the unhappy child goes to bed quietly to brood over nameless terrors in the dark london chronicle |