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_Who caroused in the Dirt and was corrected by His Uncle._
His Uncle came on Franklin Hyde / Carousing in the Dirt.
He Shook him hard from Side to Side / And Hit him till it Hurt,
Exclaiming, with a Final Thud, / "Take that! Abandoned Boy!
For Playing with Disgusting Mud / As though it were a Toy!"
MORAL
From Franklin Hyde's adventure, learn / To pass your Leisure Time / In Cleanly Merriment, and turn / From Mud and Ooze and Slime / And every form of Nastiness -- / But, on the other Hand, / Children in ordinary Dress / May always play with Sand.