A Kid’s Composition.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 9, 2 March 1907, Page 42

A Kid’s Composition.

FA I'IIERS. Fathers is most always prety good fellers xeept when they is licking you when they hadent aught to ami theysaint enny sence in it which hapens most of the time. • a fellers own father is always the best whetreli enny other fellers father is beter <>b not,, it dont make enny diferenee how mutch a fellers father slams him round or dont give him enny think the feller will stand up for his father every time.

most fellers fathers was tuf when they was fellers and that is the reson why they know when a feller is lying and when he braks winders and gets into scrapes, i shood think that wood be the reson why a fellers father shood be kind of eesy on a feller beeaus they know jest how a feller feels and how tuf it is on a feller when he has to be good all (he time but perhaps their fatheis wasent eesy on them when thev rased time.

i like to have .n feller stand up for their fathers but it makes me sick to hear (hem talk as if their, fathers was better than enny' body decs father, i neiyi' brag about my father. z i dont havtt' to for' every" lu>y“ knows rhe is the smartest man in this town, when he waa.il-boy he as thebest titer in town aiiil -ixtod lick' Bill Hartnet eesy, and Benny thinks his father can lick enny body becans ho.is a poleesman. und Pewt think/s..his father can lick every body becijus he elim up on the townliall eupeylo gnd pgiited it white, i guess i know , whoso father rood lick if they Hhood Ute only they done lite?, i wonder why men dont lite inofifi. i am glad they dont beeaus i dont like to see men

lite., i like to see dogs fite and rooster; and fellers and hens and he pigons and cats but not fellers fathers. father always says it is rong to fite and he will lick me if i get fiting but when i do he asks all about it and if i get licked whiteh sumtimes hapens to the best, titers, a feller eant lick all the time, father asks me why i dident give him one iu the eye with my left and in the ribs we call them slats with my rite, he says that is the way he listed to do. step fathers is men whiteh marry a fellers mother after he is ded the fellers father i mean, step fatheis is prety hard to get along with so i hear, i have not got one and iam glad of it. a step father makes a feller split kindlins and run erands and build flies and milk the cow and drive her to pasture and stay in the yard and wirk while the other fellers is playing 2 old cat in the school yard and they lick you for nothing. and they is terrible, i always pity a feller whiteh hasent enny father but has to put up with a step father, i gnew a feller onct whiteh got so mad with his step father that he put pison in his py, and the fellers step father dident eat emiy py that nite and they had company to super and had blueberrys insted and after super the feller got scart and wached his chance and threw the py into the swil barill and 4 pigs dide the next day. it was tuf on the pigs, so the feller lie ran away to sea and never come back enny more. ; granfathers is most as good as fathers, they give us more chink and tells us more stories and is the ones that fellers goes to when they want to get out of scrapes, they is kinder like his aunts, they dont never beleeve ennything that enny body says aegnst them. Now fathers most always beleeyes it becaus they has done the ame thing when they wa boyp. i suppos grandfathers did the same things two but it was so long ago they has forgotten all about it, and so they dont beleeve ennything they hear,. about fellers." aunts is jest like them two. mothers is sumtiling like them but not as much as aunts beeaus fathers has probly told their wife what they listed to do when They was boys and so they know more about fellers rasing cane than aunts. fathers sumtimes when they is feeling prety good take fellers to niger minstrel shows l or to washburns grand sensation or to th cattle show and then they has grate fun. i have went to lots ofshows with my lather an we have pinged base balls at niggers he ids sticking out of a hole and rode on flying horses and fired clubs at old women’s heads whiteh were made of wood and clay pipes out of their mouth and when we wood hit one we wood get a segar whiteh made father spit it out after he had lited it and a cane with a ribbon on it. if fellers fathers wood trust them a little more we woodent lie half as often not one quarter as bad. -i always feel wirse when i lie to father ami fool him than i do whin he finds me out and licks me after it aint soie'or smarty enny more. if a feller knows his father wont lick him if he tells the truth he is going to tell it eveiy time, but if lip knows his father is going to lick him for what he has done and dont know what he has done then what is a feller going to do? it is piety tuf for a feller stand up before his father and think if i tell the truth i shall be snaehed baldheaded and stay in the yard a week and the Unitaria 1 piekniek comes tomorrer, and if i lie i can go out and play prizoners bass with I’ewt and Beany'and not'get enny licking, whiteh would you do!