Just as they did in the Used-to-be.
The warning stairs kept creaking and creaking,—
There was no time to turn and flee.
"What's all this!" (It was grandma speaking.)
"I shall take every one of you over my knee."
And I regret to say that she did,
All except Kitty, who ran and hid.
And when they went and told mamma,
She only said, with a soft "ha! ha!"
"Just what your grandmamma did to me."