Cruel children, crying babies
All grow up as geese and gabies,
Hated as their age increases
By their nephews and their nieces.
Robert L. Stevenson
But he also said
Children, you are very little
And your bones are very brittle
or something very similar - which isn't true
Clary wrote:But he also said
Children, you are very little
And your bones are very brittle
or something very similar - which isn't true
may have been true in his day!?
Aside from rickets--and I believe RLS's "sickly" condition may have included rickets--children are capable of foolhardy feats of derring do that fracture even the firmest bones.
Quote:Children, you are very little,
And your bones are very brittle;
If you would grow great and stately,
You must try to walk sedately.
You must still be bright and quiet,
And content with simple diet;
And remain, through all bewild'ring,
Innocent and honest children.
Happy hearts and happy faces,
Happy play in grassy places--
That was how in ancient ages,
Children grew to kings and sages.
But the unkind and the unruly,
And the sort who eat unduly,
They must never hope for glory--
Theirs is quite a different story!
Cruel children, crying babies,
All grow up as geese and gabies,
Hated, as their age increases,
By their nephews and their nieces
RLS was of the "seen but not heard" school of child-raising. He was a man of his times.
whinge (winj, hwinj) - intr.v whinged, whinging, whines Informal To whine or complain.
~n. Informal A whine; a complaint [Northern English dialect, from Late Old English hwinsian (imitative); akin to German winseln, to WHINE]
A POM actually stands for {prisoner of Mother England} so one would assume that Australians are really the poms and not the english that come over. We weren't the convicts sent over on a boat as a PRISONER were we LOL
And to add to the alot a lot conversation I say alot as nowadays people say and use it as or word.
I love how this post is about whinging people and this forum is bursting with them hehe.
G'day MissKirk and welcome to A2K.
Fun to read back on this old thread.
I miss Clary!
@miazhou,
cur·mudg·eon
/kərˈməjən/
noun
noun: curmudgeon; plural noun: curmudgeons
1. a bad-tempered or surly person
@CORNWALL96,
No, it's not.
I'm malcontent but I'm not complaining.
Bellyache or bellyacher or the less delicate 'piss and moan'.
On A2K we call him McGentrix.
