St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1883-10-27

ANYTHING, they stand still az post and
do not speak; but may be if you should
ask them if they liked candy, they would
speak one word, and / guess it would
be yes.
Fifth. Cock-a-doodle-doo manners.
The children that have cock-a-doodle-
doc manners are the kind that feel big
and act so. When rooster struts round
among hens he acts as if he felt so big
he did not know what to do, and some
times he seems to feel so big that ne
has to get up on fence and clap his
wings, and crow, Observation-Disclosures
Sometimes there'll be lot OF fellows
nlayinp. and -doodle-doo fellow
will come there, and he'll act as ii he
thought he knew more than all the rest,
and thought he knew the right way to
do everything better than everybody.
and he'll give them the rules, and hen
strut round like a rooster. and IN ms
house he does the same way to his
mother and the other grown up ones,
and ones that are not grown up. That
kind of fellow ought to stand up on
the fence and clap his wings--no,
mean. his elbows-and crow, s'Cock-a-
doodle-doo! l know better than your
Sixth. Cow-in-the-parlor manners
Children that have Cow-in-the-parlor
manners are the kind that are always
getting in somebody's way, OF pushing
themselves in between people, or going
in front of people. or stepping on some
bodv's feet, or on bottoms OF ladies'
clothes. or leaning against people, or
tipping their own chairs over, or knock
inc down a vase, or work-basket, or
tumbler of water. They are as clumsy
as cow in the parlor, and do not mind
what they are about any more than a
COW in the parlor would what she IS
about.
Besides these kinds there is another
kind heard of, called the lnterrupters. !
| Interrupters are the kind that begin to
talk while other people are speaking;
no matter who may be speaking; no
matter if it's their father, or their
mother, or company, the Interrupters
do not wait for anybody to stop talking,
but break right in and say what they
want to.
l suppose that boy or a girl or any
other person might have two kinds OF
bad manners both at once. Some of
the people at my house talked about
this. My cousin said that if boy
should have pig manners and bear man
ners both he would be bad to live with
and so would girl if she should. My
big brother said thatif a boy should have
! three, PIG manners, and bear manners,
and donSey manners, he would want to
keep him in room by himself. and so
he would a girl if she should have
them; and said that if a boy and girl
should have pig manners, and bear
manners, and donkey manners, and
post manners, and Observation-Disclosures
manners, all five, he would want to
chain them up in cages; and said that
| if they should have all six kinds, pig
manners. and bear manners, and don
/ key manners, and post manners, and
cock-a-doodle-doo manners, and cow-ln-
the parlor manners, and be interrupt
ers besides, he would want to put each
of them under barrel and stop up the
bungholes. ] do not believe he would
stop up the bungholes, for then they
could not get air to breathe. My moth
er does not believe anybody could have
so many kinds of bad manners and be
alive. Once my mother went some
where to stay and she had to come
away because the children had such
manners she could not stay. They had
bear manners and some of the other
kinds. / think it is very hard to have
good manners all the time until you get
used to having them.-Mrs. Il. M. Diaz.
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