Discipline
Jimmy found much to criticise in his small sister. He felt forced to
remonstrate with his mother.
"Don't you want Jenny to be a good wife like you when she grows up?" he
demanded. His mother nodded assent.
"Then you better get busy, ma. You make me give into her all the time
'cause I'm bigger 'en she is. You're smaller 'en pa, but when he comes
in, you bring him his slippers, and hand him the paper." Jimmie yanked
his go-cart from baby Jennie, and disregarded her wail of anger as he
continued:
"Got to dis'pline her, or she'll make an awful wife!"