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selves, and Frank had told me all about his part in it. Indeed, we had just finished our talk, and Frank was in the next room waiting for the type- writer to copy a note I had dictated to ask his father not to lick the boy. Frank feared his father, and I knew that the licking would be, not to correct the boy, but to sate the anger of the parent and salve his wounded pride. Children know, and I know, and you know how many a licking is as selfish as that. Well, as the mother ended her tirade, the boy came back with the letter to be signed. His face fell when he saw his mother. ‘Now, Frank,’ I said, ‘tell your mother what you have told me.’ He did. She sank into a chair with a frightened little sigh: ‘ Well who would have believed it?’ Another mother, in an exactly similar situation, after nearly faint- ing away, suddenly arose and, with the image of Mrs. A. plainly in her mind, persuaded her little Frankie to repudiate his confession and stick to the lie. Her little Frankie didn’t turn out as well, but the one I saved from a ‘lickin’’ has been a princely little fellow ever since this, his first real lesson.”

Experiences like these would make an ordinary man feel like “licking” Frankie’s busy father and humiliating his silly mother, and Judge Lindsey has some very healthy, human feel