GOOD COUNSEL

New Zealand Tablet, 17 July 1913, Page 61

GOOD COUNSEL

Little children, always be Kind to everything you see. Do not kick the table’s legs, Don’t beat unoffending eggs. Do not mischievously try To poke things in a needle’s eye, Nor guilty be of such a fault As to pinch the table salt. Do not pull a teapot’s nose. Don’t ask bread what time it rose. Little pitchers’ ears don’t tweak, Nor smack the apple’s rosy cheek. But, remember it is right To all things to be polite. Let the hay scales have their weigh; Wish the calendar good-day. Kiss the clock upon its face, Return the armchair’s fond embrace. Greet the sieve in merry strain; Ask the window how’s its pane. If you learn to show such traits To your dumb inani-mates, Toward your playmates then you’ll find You’ve an amiable mind.