Franklin Hyde

Who caroused in the Dirt and was corrected by His Uncle
[Illustration]

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 Oose and Slime

And every form of Nastiness—
But, on the other Hand,
Children in ordinary Dress
May always play with Sand.