DEAR MADAM:—I regret very much to have to tell you that your son, Robert, idles away his time, is disobedient, quarrelsome, and disturbs the pupils who are trying to study their lessons. He needs a good whipping and I strongly recommend that you give him one.
Yours truly,
Miss Blank.
To this Bobby's mother responded as follows:
Dear Miss Blanks—Lick him yourself. I ain't mad at him.
Yours truly,
Mrs. Dash.
A little fellow who was being subjected to a whipping pinched his father under the knee. "Willie, you bad boy! How dare you do that?" asked the parent wrathfully.
A pause. Then Willie answered between sobs: "Well, Father, who started this war, anyway?"
A little girl about three years old was sent upstairs and told to sit on a certain chair that was in the corner of her room, as a punishment for something she had done but a few minutes before.
Soon the silence was broken by the little one's question: "Mother, may I come down now?"
"No, you sit right where you are."