[Samantha at the World’s Fair by Marietta Holley]@TWC D-Link bookSamantha at the World’s Fair CHAPTER XIX 12/37
That is the reason that they act so sassy when they're growed up.
Politeness ort to be learnt young, even if it has to be stomped in with spanks. The Japanese are a child-like people easily pleased, easily grieved--laughin' and cryin' jest like children. They work all day, not fast enough to hurt 'em, and at nightfall they go out and play all sorts of native games. That's a good idee.
I wish that Jonesvillians would foller it.
You'd much better be shootin' arrers from blowpipes than to blow round and jaw your household.
And you'd much better be runnin' a foot race than runnin' your neighbors. They've got a theatre where they perform their native dances and plays, and one man sets behind a curtain and duz all the conversation for all the actors.
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