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Show How It Works. (Chicago News.) Train up a child as he should, go. The precept's old and it is sound. If you attempt to do it. though, With grace your spirit should abound. Oh, use for it you'll have: indeed, You'll all your stock of patience need. The child's approval of the plan You would be fortune to get. He'd truly be a daring man Who then upon results would bet. For -when you do not go his way The child will have a word to say. He knows how things should run at school And what his teachers should permit. He censors every plan and rule And so improves affairs a bit. If teachers don't agree with him For them the outlook's rather grim. An independent spirit he Has little need to cultivate. It's well developed, as you see; So are his powers of debate. Indeed the trainer's often pained To find the child has got him trained. |