The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1888-08-24
4 BAHY,s GRIEVANCE
Hs oeiects 70 ] cow Fonter Mother

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He objects to a COW Foster Mother.
Tommy Cute, aged /, having suffer-
ed as long as he can $ tand it, writes to
MS, in order that his grievances, being
known to the public, they may imme-
diately be cured.
/ object he says, in the first place,to
being forced to adopt Farmer Jones
brindle COW for q foster mother,
] object, also. to the existence of q
like relationship between myself and
the condensed milk factory or the corn
starch mill.
Iobject to having my stomach stuffed
as a remedy for a mosquito bite on my
little toe or a nasty pin in my back
l object to personating a churn. |
prefer to take my butter after the
churning process is completed
/ object to being kissed BY all the
women, old and young, who come near
me. / prefer to wait a few years. or
at least until / shall be old enough to
make my W selections.
l object to having people ask about
my age. 1t is an impertinence.. Be-
sides grown people sometimes remem-
Der, and Of ages they are especially
apt in keeping a record.
object to having to 60 hungry until
company is served. For my part, /
don't see what people want company
for. Company is a nuisance. Mamma
and papa have said so hundreds of
times in my hearing.
object to being obliged 30 go about
with my neck and arms bare. When
it is hot and the f.es and mosquitoes
bother me awfully. and when the air is
chilly l feel as though / were freezing
TO death.
/ object when ! go to ride in my
perambulator, to having myself left
alone in the sun while my maid sports
with that long-legged chap with the
yellow mustache and ready-made CLOTH
ing.
/ object to being sent to bed when !
am not sleepy, and to having q nasty
rubber tube stuck into my mouth every
time ! turn over in the night.
/ object to having strangers make
faces at me. They give me an awful
start sometimes when they think they
are amusing me.
! object to being spoken to by people
with whom / am not acquainted. Why
don't they wait for an introduction
/ object to being the only child in
the family. It's awfally lonesome not
to have any brothers or sisters. | wish
l had been born when it was fashion
able to have large families.
/ object to being called Tom, Just be-
cause my papa was called Tom when
he was a boy. Because his papa gave
him a name he didn't like was nc
reason for giving me a name l detest
/ sheuld think a boy ought to be
allowed to choose his own name.
/ object to wearing dresses and hay.
ing my hair curled HALF the folks
think I'm a girl.
/ object to being bossed by women.
A man ought to be his own master.
Pm Just sick Of petticoat government.
/ object &c heing tauoht hahy.salk
What good does it do meP After
have become proficient in it / have Il
90 to work and unlearn it and learn
grown folks language. Why don
they teach me that in the first placer
object to having folks bore me will
their silly stories which | have heard
50 many times that they are veritabl
chestnuts.
/ object to having people humbug
me all the time. They tell me what
should do and what l should not do.
notice that they are not given t.
taking their own medicine. VIVA.
ounces they are not TO know that
learn more from what I see than from
what they tell me.
There's lots Of other things 20 which
1 object but this will do for a starter.
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