Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 November 1891 — She Had Heard So. [ARTICLE]

She Had Heard So.

The application of general principles to particular cases is so nice a matter that the wisest of people never attain to perfection in it. Lucy, 3 years old, was playing with a neighbor of her own age. All went smoothly until some childish dispute arose, when Lucy, regarding her little friend as the agggressor, slapped her soundly. Lucy’s grandmother reproved her for her rudeness and display of temper, but the child clinched the argument by saying: “Why, dan’mudder, dan’mudder, don’t you know it does little dirls dood to whip ’em?”—New York Tribune.