Old Trius thinks: To spank a boy Is really very kind, And all he cannot hit in front At least he hits behind.

To spank a child, or flout a fool, hurts without harming.

But she keeps mah house all spick and span; She has good vittles fo' her ol' man; She spanks the chillun, but she loves 'em, too; She sho' am sharp, but she's good and true 'Deed she am! '

In connection with this story he told us he had often seen she-bears spank their cubs.

"I spanked Dr. Parker, when he wore little frocks, for running his tin wheelbarrow against me so that I nearly fell over it.

Schoolboys remember with gratitude that he forbade teachers to "spank their pupils overmuch and without judgment, as was their wont.

"Old as I am," said she, "I'm strong enough to spank such a white-livered, broken-down puppy as you are.

Bensington, glancing from the window, would see the faultless equipage come spanking up Sloane Street and after an incredibly brief interval Winkles would enter the room with a light, strong motion, and pervade it, and protrude some newspaper and supply information and make remarks.

Grim played his usual game, which is to spank down his ace of trumps face upward on the table.

Up the way of Love and athwart the oddest tangle of streets in New Orleans,Frenchmen and Casacalvo, Greatmen, History, Victory, Peace, Arts, Poet, Music, Bagatelle, Craps, and Mysteriousacross Elysian Fields not too Elysian, past the green, high-fenced gardens of Esplanade and Rampart flecked red-white-and-red with the oleander, the magnolia, and the rose, spun the wheels, spanked the high-trotters.