Who caroused in the Dirt and was corrected by His Uncle. <br /> <br />His Uncle came upon Franklin Hyde <br />Carousing in the Dirt. <br />He Shook him hard from Side to Side <br />And Hit him till it Hurt, <br /> <br />Exclaiming, with a Final Thud, <br />"Take that! Abandoned boy! <br />For Playing with Disgusting Mud <br />As though it were a Toy!" <br /> <br />Moral: <br />From Franklin Hyde's adventure, learn <br />To pass your Leisure Time <br />In Cleanly Merriment, and turn <br />From Mud and Ooze and Slime <br />And every form of Nastiness- <br />But, on the other Hand, <br />Children in ordinary Dress <br />May always play with Sand.<br /><br />Hilaire Belloc<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/franklin-hyde/
