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30 to enter these vile pit-falls without a word of protest. If such prudes ever generated an original idea, if there has ever been a single occasion when humanity has been improved, either individually or collectively, because of their having lived, the writer would like to hear of it.

If you are a parent, a guardian, and have one atom of truth, of honor, of love in your heart, warn your boys—and your girls, too—of the terrible evils that they must avoid.

Neglect this imperative duty, and if there is Hell in the other world, you fully deserve an important position there, for you have assisted in no small way to make a hell on this earth for your own child.

There is no crime more dastardly, that deserves more punishment, than this. Adults have some protection against crime. They are fully aware of its existence, but children look up to and depend on their parents for protection, and it would injure them far less if they were beaten on the head near unto