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Dickey Downy

CHAPTER X
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Every mother knows there is a savage streak in her boy's nature.

No," continued Mrs.Brown, with a decisive nod of her head, "I say let the man who is without sin among them be the first to cast stones now.

Perhaps this very preacher spent all his Saturdays robbing birds' nests and clubbing birds when he was a little boy, and kept it up until he was big enough to kill them with a gun.
Of course there are some who do not; not all boys are cruel.

But this cruelty does not excuse ours.

Man's wickedness does not make us the less guilty.


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