A BOY TO HIS MOTHER.
"Nothing would matter'if it weren't for you; but : everything does matter just because of you—every bally little thing. Not knowing my work, and being caned; wasn't anything—at least it wouldn't have been, only there was telling you afterwards, iou've got to be told everything; or at any rate, I tell you; and it's tnat makes everything so rotten. I'm 'fraid to stir; 1 daren't do anything. Whatever I do, you get in tho way and say I'm disgracing you. You're always shoving »n and making mc feel wicked and miserablo when 1 haven't done anything that I could help. Course one can't stop things going wrong at times, and 1 should know that, if it wasn't for you.- But you always make mc feel that I could have stopped it. There was nothing I minded in the caning—except—except you. You make my bally life a burden. I'm sure I should enjoy myself ever so much more if 1 hadn't got a mother. I don't care a bit about things for myself, but because there's you, I do. 1 call it a rotten shame. You oughtn't to make mc so unhappy. It's beastly of you; you ought to love mc better than to do it. It isn't as if you weren't nice; you are nice; only you do it. Why do you do itP" From "His Young Importance," by Ralph Harold Bretherton.
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Press, Volume LXII, Issue 12129, 27 February 1905, Page 8
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236A BOY TO HIS MOTHER. Press, Volume LXII, Issue 12129, 27 February 1905, Page 8
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