Deportmental ditties : and other verses . ep quiet,To refrain from noise and riot;Treat your elders and your betters with your boots are wet and muddy,Dont invade your fathers studyAnd arouse him from the slumbers of senility.(An incorrigible slattern Is the urchin who imprints hisDirty footprints on the pattern Of the brand-new boudoir chintzes !)14 Childhood Evry infant should endeavourTo be rather good than clever, With a charming and unselfish personality;To remember that politenessIs more popular than brightness, And intelligence less pleasing than a welcome war
Deportmental ditties : and other verses . ep quiet,To refrain from noise and riot;Treat your elders and your betters with your boots are wet and muddy,Dont invade your fathers studyAnd arouse him from the slumbers of senility.(An incorrigible slattern Is the urchin who imprints hisDirty footprints on the pattern Of the brand-new boudoir chintzes !)14 Childhood Evry infant should endeavourTo be rather good than clever, With a charming and unselfish personality;To remember that politenessIs more popular than brightness, And intelligence less pleasing than a welcome warm awaits you If you chance to be a zany,But the world distrusts and hates you If youre what is known as brainy. Ive an uncle, stout and jolly,Whos completely off his trolley— As for intellect or brains, he hasnt got any;But he yachts, and bets, and races,Goes to Monte and such places, And he drinks a bit, to vary the the smartest country-houses He obtains immediate entry,Where in comfort he carousesWith nobility and While my cousin in the City,Who is wonderfully witty—His accomplishments and parlour tricks are numerous:He can sing, and play the fiddle,Solve acrostics, ash a riddle, 15 Deportmental Ditties And do other things, if possible, more humorousHas been brutally ejected From Societys dominions,Just because he is suspectedOf polygamous opinions ! Be considerate of others, Of your sisters and your brothers;Do not balance loaded sponges on the door for them. With your playmates never grapple To secure the largest apple:If you get it, always treasure up the core for them. Keep your hands a trifle cleaner,And your finger-nails unbitten, And affect the meek demeanourOf an unassuming kitten. Never enter without knocking,Never wear a drooping stocking,Never greet your parents counsel with hilarity;Never mingle cake and butter,Never dabble in the gutter,Nor do anything that savours of vulgarity.(Tis unseemly for a bantling To make tactless observations,Wh
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