Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 June 1902 — His Human Petition. [ARTICLE]

His Human Petition.

Now, the 4-year-old son of a leading Baltimore lawyer had been very wicked. He had fallen athwart the family cat and attempted strangulation, but was parted from his victim and sent to the nursery with orders to prepare for bed and the promise that personal castigation was to be bis fate before retiring. His shrieks turned to sobs, and presently silence followed so suddenly that his mother was convinced that sometiling uncanny was brewing, for in that house a quiet boy meant trouble, and no man could tell where It would strike. So the mother crept silently up to the door, but the sound of a very tired, yet anxious, little voice nailed her on the threshold. Like many an older culprit, the little chap bad resorted to bis prayers when in trouble, and It was no perfunctory performance. Evidently his whole heart was In the matter. "Oh, Lord," said tiie boy, “I have been bad. 1 beat the cat and muver will beat me, for she said so, and my muver Is stronger than I am. So please, Ixird, make me like one of the little cherubs wlmt haven't anything but a head nnd two wings wive feathurs. Then muver can’t whip me, and ’’ Here the childish voice hesitated, for he was sleepy, very sleepy, and then he crawled Into the bed to await the promised whipping, which, curiously enough, never came.—Boston Herald.