“IN THE WAY THEY SHOULD GO”
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Mrs. Hobbs was the parent of an infant terror and several half-grown terrors besides. One day at table she said, “Well, Mr. Hobbs, since you are so dissatisfied with the way I am bringing up our darling Willie, maybe you will condescend to inform me how you would bring up boys?”
“Certainly,” said Hobbs. “Every boy ought to be kept in a hogshead, and fed through the bung-hole until he is twelve years of age.”
“And when he reaches the age of twelve?”
“Stop up the bung-hole.”