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Don'ts For Kids
BY JILL
(fifth grader, 1996/97)
Don'ts For Kids
There were many "don'ts" for kids in the olden days.
There are two lakes in Virginia. Both where filled with logs for the sawmill.For fun kids would run across them. They did it even though they weren't supposed to. It was very dangerous because if you were to fall in you would not be able to get back out because they were packed so thick. There would be a one out of one hundred chance you would get out of the water. Eventually you would get out of the water. Eventually you would drown. One kid did. When kids would run across the logs sometimes the police would chase the kids, but they were afraid to go on them.
Another dangerous place were the mine pits. A kid could easily fall down into the mine, and fall to their death. Parents did not let their kids over by the mine pits.
Sometimes for fun kids would put carbon pellets from miners carbide lights in the inkwells and soon the inkwells would explode sky high!
Some kids would put frogs in the teacher's desk and the teacher would scream when she opened the door of her desk for a pencil and find frogs instead.
Those are some of the things parents did not want their kids to do, but they did them anyway!
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MARCH 1997