Children's, Column.
CONFESSION. Dear pussy, I love you, and I's ydur true friend, 'Cause I saved you a spankin' to-day ; When cook missed her custard, and everyone said, It was puss that had etealed it away. You know you are naughty lotnetimeß^ pussy dear, So< in course you got blamed, an' — all that ! An 1 cook took a stick, an' sho 'clared she would beat The thief out, that mizzable cat ! But I — didn't feel comfor'ble down in rriy heart, So I saved ydu the whippin', you see/ 'Cause I went to mamma, an' telled her I 'spect She'd better tell cook to whip me.' 'Cause the custard was stealed by a bad little girl Who felt dreffley Eorry with shame, An' it wouldn't be fair to whip pussy, in course, When that bad little girl was to blame ! "Was it my little girlie?" toy dear mama said, I felt dreffley scared, but I noddad my head. An' then mama laughed. "Go find nurse, for I guess There's some cuotard to wash off a littl» girl's dress." Well, then, 'course they knew it was I, sin' not you, Who otealed all the custard sin' then ran away. But it's best to be true in the things that wo do, An' — that'o how I saVed you a apankin' to-day.
Churchman.
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Waimate Daily Advertiser, Issue 31, 24 December 1898, Page 4
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219Children's, Column. Waimate Daily Advertiser, Issue 31, 24 December 1898, Page 4
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