Show the old settler my dear san Jua ners I 1 have a very V vivid recollection i of that occasion it was one of the important milestones mile stones of my life it happened in the late evening I 1 had gonei gone to bed but I 1 had not retired three of us had gone to bed all in the one bed at that time I 1 had reached the happy go as you please age of seven years and I 1 was leading the two other children in a wild celebration I 1 would disappear into the quilts shout ante i over from deep under the cover and peek from the foot za f the bed with a yell to return repeating the performance followed enthusiastically by the two other kids all of us in an ecstasy of childish delight this game increased in sound and speed till my mother asked me to settle down and go to sleep but I 1 was having such a whale of a time I 1 consider her pr proposition seriously after a little while she asked mei me to please draw my remarks to a close but I 1 was having altogether too much fun to think of being quiet then she told me she would give me a spanking if I 1 ring off but she had never done any such thing to me in all the seven years of my acquaintance with her even talked of I 1 such a ridiculous thing and I 1 believe she really meant it I 1 caught sight of her coming towards the bed be d but it alarm me I 1 knew she loved me yet I 1 had no idea just what that love included that it was not the bamby pamby kind stuff to coddle cd and deceive me but the genuine thing that every true mother should have for her innocent ignorant little kids so I 1 just began vanishing again into the heap of jumbled bedding and I 1 had just got fifty per cent under cover when she arrived my mother was no liar thank the lord for that how fortunate I 1 am to have had a mother with continued on rage fage eight the old settler continued irom from page 1 stamina to keep her word with ms me if anybody had bad called my mother a liar I 1 would have smashed his face if I 1 had been big enough and yet without realizing it I 1 was challenging her my own se self I 1 f I 1 am mighty glad I 1 had a mother who could impress me at that susceptible cep tible and important age with the dependable nature of her standards and her faithfulness as the framer of my character while I 1 was there just fifty per cent out of sight headfirst head first under the quilts I 1 was made to know for my benefit in all the years to come that there are really limits and bounds which we have to that was my mothers 1 sacred responsibility to get that over effectively to me she had promised it she was no liar it was her duty and she did it in such a way and with such impressive and resounding spanks that I 1 have no recollection of her ever having to repeat the performance f for or mance that was but typical of the way she honored her obligation to have me see the truth of things as they really are if she had failed me at that important moment she would have been like the shall I 1 say liars whether I 1 use that word or not when I 1 hear mothers telling their children what they ought to do and threatening certain punishments if the ildren children ch do not do it and then allowing the poor unfortunate children to t do just as they please I 1 feel as tho those mothers ought to be spanked good and hard as failures and pik ers in in the responsibility that their motherhood imposes upon them ALBERT R LYMAN |