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The Children Get The Gravy

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Parent Issue
Day
9
Month
April
Year
1895
Copyright
Public Domain
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"Yotiknow," Baid tiie fatber of a ly, "it maltes mo laush wbenever I tbiuk of tho children's absolute about the gravy. What I mean i when we have a stonk, or roast beef, or anytbing that has gravy vith it, the it all, down to tbo last drop, witl 13 a speek for tbeiz fatber au: And th 'io perfectIj' sound I . cbikiren, ■■nything they comld' leirparenti ahout som èth inga tbat appears to be pi latmral to obildreu, and that ; ís bred in indtilgence. They ba've iil thair Iives bi tomed ti.i bnving everytbing tbat tbojr jive th( cc, aurt so tbáy coiiio to expoct it. "Dut I saiile agr.ia as I recali tbi that ■when í "va3 a boy I got all the gra7y. Timo and again I have soen my father tip the dish so that he miglit get for me the Jast drop, wbile he had uono for himsèlf. He was very fond of gravy, too, but he never said so. With gravo courtesy he gave it all to me, as though I were entitled to it. When I grew a littlo oidor, I reproached myself sometimes for baviug taken it all. Wheu I grew older still aud camo to know how gentle and affectionate and forbeariug and generous he was, I came to know that ho wouldn't for the world have marred my pleasuro by so much as a word - that the simple fact was that it was a far greator pleasure to him to give me the gi'avy than it would have been to eat it bimself. "And now when the childron pafte their plates I gravely dish out the gravy down to the last drop, and I saynothing for fear that they will rob mo of the selfish pleasura of giving it all to them. But I smile to myself once more as I think of what will happou when they come to have ohildren of their own. I kuow what thcy'll do theh. They'll give it all to the ohildren, down to the last, last drop. -

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Ann Arbor Argus
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