My father required me to honor my father and my mother too much to put up games on them. I did on occasion.
My father was slower, but he was severer than my mother, who was quick but light and irregular in discipline.
My mother would thump me sharply on the head with a thimble or a spoon if I became too noisy with the whistle when I was playing I was a steamboat captain. She had no sense of the dignity of command.
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