Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 234, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 October 1911 — Not Spoken In Jest [ARTICLE]

Not Spoken In Jest

Spank! Spank! Spank! Tommy was undergoing material chastisement at the hands of his loving mother for eating the jam. “Tommy,” she said, when she had paused for breath, "do you know this hurts me more than it does you?” And when Tommy was alone with his father he produced a square board he had concealed, and murmured; “1 thought that bit of wood would not do her band any good.”