I have a great mind to pick up all the children, and form a colony on some bright island, where these people, who were made up in a hurry, without hearts, couldn't find us; or if they did, we'd just say to them when they tried to come ashore—Never take grown-up folks here, sir!or, we'd treat them to a "second dinner,"—bill of fare, cold potatoes, bad cooking butter, bread full of saleratus, bones without any meat on them, watery soups, and curdled milk—(that is to say, after we had picked our nuts long enough to suit us at dessert!) How do you suppose they'd like to change places with "children" that way?
Now here's Aunt Fanny's creed, and you may read it to your mother if you like.
I believe in great round apples andbigslices of good plain gingerbread for children.
I believe in making their clothes loose enough to enable them to eat it all, and jump round in when they get through.
I believe in not giving away their little property, such as dolls, kites, balls, hoops, and the like, without their leave.
I believe in not promising them a ride, and then forgetting all about it.
I believe in not teasing them for amusement, and then punishing them for being "troublesome."
I believe in not allowing Bridget and Betty to box their ears because the pot boils over, or because their beaux didn't come the evening before.
I believe in sending them to school where there are backs to the benches, and where the schoolma'am has had at least "oneoffer."
I believe no house can be properly furnished with out at least adozenchildren in it.
I believe little children to be all that is left us of Paradise; and that any housekeeper harboring a person who "don't like them," had bettercount up her silver, without loss of time!
The End
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