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An Ignorant Boy

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Parent Issue
Day
29
Month
October
Year
1875
Copyright
Public Domain
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Mr. Porter, of Baker street, has so many irons in the fire that he never has time to eit down and talk with his children and explain things. His son John traded a dog for a steel trap the other day, BupposiDg it to be a rat trap. Then he set the trap on the front steps, supposing that to be the best place. If his father had been a different man the boy wouid have had more perception, butMr. Porter never sat down, took the lad on his kuee and pointed out the straight and narrow road which the successfnl rat-catcher mitst pursue. John was in bed and asleep, and his mother was sewing a three-cornered pateh on his pants, when Mr. Porter came home and stepped into the trap as he unlocked the hall door. He yelleci " git out !" and " mmder!" for three straight minutes, and when the neighbors gathered and pried open the trap he went in and lioked John until liia arm was tired. The boy was yesterday packing up a collar box, a kite and a pair of stilts, intending to run away. He can't be blamed. Fathers should sit down and explain to their sons all about rat traps and all about the

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Subjects
Old News
Michigan Argus