ONE WAY OF LOOKING AT IT
Sometimes when I've been very bad, My mother looks at me, And 1 can see she's just as 'sad. As ever she can be. And then she says: ' To-night I'll" tell . Your father what, you've done; When he comes home he'll whip you well ! '— • And then I want to r,uh. About a thousand miles away, Or else drop out of sight — It's awful waitin' round "all day ' • .-To catch it hard at night. A boy can't always just be good Or always -act just' so, Or always say just what he should, - Without mistakes, }ou know. If I'd a little boy like me And I was big and strong, I'd let hinii off sometimes when he Just happened to do wrong.. I don't like whipping anyway, I don't believe it's right, But worst of- all's to wait all day For one you'll get at night.
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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXV, Issue 2, 28 February 1907, Page 37
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151ONE WAY OF LOOKING AT IT New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXV, Issue 2, 28 February 1907, Page 37
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