"Whopping" Boys
♦ T know a pair of boys b'side whom even Helen's babies must have dwindled and grown tame. Naujjhtv, willful, mischifivous, loving- little scamps. 'I hey were at times as soundly thrashed as a rather s-itt— hearted father would permit. For a time they would mind ; but they. " wouldn't stay minded," to use a childish expression. Nothing seemed as forcible a method of punishment an taking 1 away their spending money — a lew pennies each day. For some particularly grievous offonse this was resorted to two or three days before the Fourth of July, and great was their grief and indignation. Very early the next morning the father who has this upon them was awakened by hearing 1 them at the chamber door crying. " Boys !" '•Oh papa!" " Boys— go back to your room !" *' Oh papa — dear papa — won't you please give us our pennies and go back to the wbopj>iu»s !" Boston Traveller.
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Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 86, 22 December 1883, Page 3
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