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The Wit and Humor of America, Volume III. (of X.) by Various
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SPELL AND DEFINE:

Tact
Exasperation
Lamb
Imperturbability
Red-hot
Philosopher
Ebullition
Knout
Terrier

Which end of a rattan hurts the more?--Why does reading make a full
man?--Is an occasional whipping good for a boy?--At precisely what
age does corporal punishment cease to be effective?--And
why?--State, in exact terms, how much better are grown up people
without the rod, than little people with it.--And why?--When would
a series of good sound whippings have been of the greatest benefit
to Solomon, when he was a godly young man, or an idolatrous old
one?--In order to reform this world thoroughly, then, whom should
we thrash, the children or the grown-up people?--And why?--If,
then, the whipping post should be abolished in Delaware, why should
it be retained in the nursery and the school room?--Write on the
board, in large letters, the following sentence:

If a boy ten years old should
be whipped for breaking a window,
what should be done to a man
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