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A little girl who had visited an Episcopalian church for the first
time described the service as follows:
"When we went in they were standing up, singing, but pretty soon they
sat down and played hide-and-seek."
"Did what?" asked her mother.
"Well, of course no one went and hid, but they all covered up their
faces and counted to themselves."
_Training the Other Woman's Child_
They all sat round in friendly chat
Discussing mostly this and that,
And a hat.
Until a neighbor's wayward lad
Was seen to act in ways quite bad;
Oh, 'twas sad!
One thought she knew what must be done
With every child beneath the sun--
She had none.
And ere her yarn had been quite spun
Another's theories were begun--
She had one.
The third was not so sure she knew,
But thus and so she thought she'd do--
She had two.
The next one added, "Let me see;
These things work out so differently."
She had three.
The fifth drew on her wisdom store
And said, "I'd have to think it o'er."
She had four.
And then one sighed, "I don't contrive
Fixt rules for boys, they're too alive."
She had five.
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