WHEN HE WOULD REPEAT IT.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XV, Issue II, 13 July 1895, Page 55

WHEN HE WOULD REPEAT IT.

Harry, who is five years old, when in bathing in a mountain lake with his father the other day for the first time. He didn’t seem to like it very much, but when his mother asked him if he had enjoyed it, he replied, * Ob, ever so much. Maybe some day when I’m a man I’ll go in again.’

A new method of punishing bad boys was invented by a Kentucky judge the other day. Eight negro lads from eight to fourteen years of age were caught breaking into a house, and the judge who tried them and found them guilty told the mothers of the boys that if they would whip them publicly in the court-room, the little fellows would not be sent to the penitentiary. So at an appointed time a space was cleared in front of the judge’s desk in the courtroom, and the mothers of the eight culprits, armed with rawhides, began the punishment. The blows fell thick and fast, and in more than one instance the punishment was so severe that blood was drawn. Once the judge thought it his duty to interfere and prevent the whipping from becoming too brutal. The mothers evidently were determined to do their whole duty, for the beating continued until the judge stopped the affair, and the howling little darkies were led down the street towards their homes. Whether the whipping was continued in the privacy of the negro cabins the account does not relate. A large «rowd witnessed the punishment i,n the court-room.