An Observant Girl's Composition

A little school girl in the rural districts of Georgia was assigned a coaipositlon uu "Teinperanee," and the following is the result: "Temperance is more better than whisky. Whisky is 10 cents a drink, and lots of it. My pa drinks whisky. He has been Lull 113 times. One night he carne home late and my ma went out and cut some hickories and walioped him goo. Then sue ducked hís heád Ín a tub of soapsuds and locked him up in the barn. And the next morning my pa said he reckoned lse'd swear off."