Franklin Hyde

Who caroused in the Dirt and was corrected by His Uncle

His uncle came on Franklin Hyde

Carousing in the Dirt.

He shook him hard from Side to Side

And Hit him till it Hurt,

Exclaiming, with a Final Thud,

“Take

that! Abandoned Boy!

For Playing with Disgusting Mud

As though it were a Toy!”

MORAL

From Franklin Hyde’s adventure, learn

To pass your Leisure Time

In Cleanly Merriment, and turn

From Mud and Ooze and Slime

And every form of Nastiness-

But, on the other Hand,

Children in ordinary Dress

May always play with Sand.