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Show FREDDY'S MISFORTUNE. Freddy Simpson he ain't never had a llckin' In his life; Not even when he broke th' blade o' his pn's bran'-new knife. An' cut til' parlor carpet, an' made gouges in th' floor, An' whittled his in-nlshuls, too, right on their big front door. You see his ma opposes any punishment punish-ment like that Why, she jst "reasoned" with him when he spoiled his pa's new hat Huh, Walter Perkins told him how his his" pa would take a switch i An' whip him so th' places for a da , or two would Itch. An' I told Freddy Simpson 'bout th' lickln's that I get-So get-So hard sometimes I'd rufher stand up for mj meals than set, An Oscar Jones, nn" Rufus an' Bob an' Freckles Smith, Thej said they'd take th' lickln's rather rath-er than be "reasoned" with. Us boys, we got to tellin' Freddie how th' whlppln's feel, An' how your pa whacks harder when you wriggle 'round an" squeal, An' how you holler to him, "I wbn't do It any more " An' how you just don't do it, long as you keep fcelln' sore. An' we got Freddy Simpson to believe i it Isn't fair For his folks jest to "reason" when th' reasons never scare. So Freddy Simpson started out today to bo real bad, An' played some tricks at breakfast till his pa wos very mad An' started out to r'eason but Fred kept a-makin' noise An' said, "Why don't you Uck me, like the others does tholr boys?" An so-'his pa he licked him an' now Freddy says his ma Spent all th' mornln' "reasonln" about it to his pa. Wilbur D. Nesbit In Harper's Magazine. Mag-azine. on - |