Who caroused in the Dirt and was corrected by His
His uncle came on Franklin
Carousing in the Dirt.
He shook him hard from Side to
And Hit him till it Hurt,
Exclaiming, with a Final Thud,“Takethat!
Abandoned Boy!
For Playing with Disgusting
As though it were a
From Franklin Hyde’s adventure,
To pass your Leisure
In Cleanly Merriment, and
From Mud and Ooze and
And every form of Nastiness-But, on the other Hand,
Children in ordinary
May always play with Sand.
