XI. Improper Words.

Who was it that I lately heard,

Repeating an improper word 7

I do not like to tell his name,

Because he is so much to blame.

Go, naughty child! and hide your face,

I grieve to see you in disgrace;

Go, you have forfeited to-day,

All right at trap and ball to play.

At dinner time there is no place

For boys who merit deep disgrace;

Such naughty boys I can't permit,

With children who are good to sit.

And when at night you go to bed,

The third commandment shall be read;

For there we find how very wrong

It is to have a faulty tongue.