Spanked the Boy.

Otago Witness, Issue 1765, 19 September 1885, Page 28

Spanked the Boy.

All the adult passengers in the waiting-room had their attention attracted by his antics. He wanted candy, and. he wanted tp see the river, and he wanted to go aboard the train, and he wanted more than any city the size of Detroit could possibly furnish free gratis. His mother hushed him ,up best she could, and several times he slapped her face and kicked her shins and got off without even a pinch. By-and-bye an old man who sat near her, and whose feet the boy had walked on several times, began to get nervous, and turning to his right hand neighbour, said —

" Land o' massy ! but I've either got to git outer here or spank that boy !"

'■ He just aches for it !" growled the other.

" He docs. He puts me in mind of my William, I'v6 t>eeu William when nothing on airth but a spanking would put good nature into him."

" I say I will go !" shouted the boy at this moment.

"Please, Johnny, be good," entreated the mother. " I won't !" " Oh, do ! See how they are all looking at

" I don't care if they are !" With that he walked up to the old man aud made a kick, and then the curtain went up on the play. With one twist and two motions he was seized, whirled over a pair of knees, aud before he could squawk once the spanking machino began its work. If ever a boy of seven was neatly wound up and the ugly taken out of him inside of sixty seconds, the work was .no more complete than in this case. " There !" said the spanker, as he up-ouded the child and placed him on a seat, " you'll feel better — a heap better. Hated to do it, you know, but saw that you was suffering for for it. Beg your mother's pardon for interfering in family matters, but you set right thar' till the train is ready !" The boy " set," and such a calm and solid peace stole over the crowd that the yells of the hackman outdoors gave everybody a pain. — Detroit Free Press.