Laws Concerning Food and Drink; Household Principles; Lamentations of the Father

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O my children, you are disobedient. For when I tell you what you must do, you argue and dispute hotly even to the littlest detail; and when I do not accede, you cry out, and hit and kick. Yes, and even sometimes do you spit, and shout "stupid-head" and other blasphemies, and hit and kick the wall and the molding thereof when you are sent to the corner.

At Laws Concerning Food and Drink; Household Principles; Lamentations of the Father - The Atlantic (February 1997)