The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1858-07-21
Childrens Wrongs.
By MRS. y ID. GAGE.

Mother, mother, | want whip and a
string tied TO it,
oh! hush your teasing: l am too
busv.
Well, ! want whip aud a string tied
to it,
Don't you sea Fin ironing. YOU little
plague you Z
Il want whip aud string led TO il, '
repeated the fat, rosy checked bright eyel
boy, ru!! Of strength, nerve aud energy, ,
THIS cold morning. the fifteenth Of Feb
ruary, IN al" sLrg .aTE'house ot
in the town e -, 10 he S,,te OF
limos.
Reader, am not speaking Fl .ioa,
but n plain suIer f,"t.
Frank MAS jus, f,ar wears old, and a
child tor his mother To- he proud of. lis
sister had gnue TO SCl.noi, and the cold air
shu, the "nI,L III the house. Mother WAS
busy ironing, getting dinner and taking
care generally.
Frank wanted something u do. He
got n KNIFE, and 10 show the manliness
that was beginning to sprout in his young
heart, attacked the stove. calling il biz
tree. Unceremoniously. the knife was
.natched from his hand, 10 reason given
him. and his independence set up fear
iuI yell. which brought an unceremonous
blow upon the side OF his head, to make
him stop his noise, which had the effect
TO pro iuce AL accumulation Of disonrdant
sounds. But the mother had To 30 ont
Just then. 40 the bov sohhet himself ouiet
over the fcture ot hedgehog. which
| pointed put To him in hook.
Bat the hedgehog became familiar, and
his restless spirit wanted n new impulse.
So he mounted the woodbox. and iuay
ined Buck and Jerry, jus, ahead, needed
the discipline which he had seen his fs
rLer exercise over those notable farm
helps.
Master Frank asked good nsturedly
enough At first, for his wlp with sring
tel to IT, But his request not being
choerfuily answered, he grew in,o fOHous
discomfort. lis mother told him he
could no, havs it, that she had not got
one, she could not and would not STOP
But lie had been too we'll trained to an.
nov and conquer, to give up.
lie toased, till she could bear no Ion
ger, and then produced the whip and
string, asserting ut the same time, that
the stick WAS pap's r"mrod, and lie would
kill her for taking it down if he was to
see it, She did not fix the string to suit
the fastilious tasIe Of the Young gentle
man, and he screamed Justify To have
il done another way. The mother refu
sed, and after calling her darling child the
hatefulest young ono that ever lived and
threatening him with the terrors OF the
rod in her bands. she again yielded and
took off the string. and declared size
would not touch it again. and threw string
and ali upon the floor, called him little
hound and went to ironing.
Eu: Frank knew Ito be sure he didl
that he could carry the day, and be yell
ed louder .han ever, and stamped and
rsved like mad child, Till his mother,
wholly OFT of patience, seized him with
the passion Of n tigress, and beat his liz
tic body with force that might have
shamed the humanity of aa OK driver.
The boy, that bright, beautiful, loving
III madness. Again and again, she bade
him stop, stop your crying this instant,
or you'll get 1t worse--as if the child,
thus irrltaled and thus suffering could
atop. For COOL half hour this contest
WAS kept mp, Till my very soul was suffer
iug with the child, and though all unused
to the work of Interference between pa.
rent aud offspring. | begged her to de.
siSt, which she soon consented to do, and
went to work to fix the string just rs he
wanted il at first.
The li,lle isllns stife1 his sobs as best
he cpud. an. 90 soou No the pam was
gone, used la whip ~ hiS heart content,
aud th~ sJif ramI"d came in contact with
his mo-, ers face. and forthwith came
blow for his cste!s.sne-s, and the ramrod
was snnprep If ns string, the s,riug cast
angriIy into the fre, anI the rod pu: back
into ils place.