Punishment Due

A little boy works on a farm. In the early hours his mother tells him to do all his chores before sitting down to his breakfast which upsets him. On the way out to the barn he shoves the cow out the way, then seeing the rooster he gives that a kick and finally pulls the old sows ear in his temper.

When he returned starving his mother said “I saw you push old Marybell and just for that you’ll get no milk; and fancy kicking the rooster there’ll be no eggs for you and for treating the poor sow like that you’ll get no bacon either!!”

Just then his father came through the door nearly falling over the cat which he booted out of the way. The cat ran yowling up the stairs.

The little boy looked up at his ma and said “Will you tell him or shall I?”