Having rules
I suppose I must like rules because I wrote some in 1959 when I was about eleven.
- Get up at half-past seven.
- Start breakfast as soon as you get down.
- Come back from friends at half-past twelve.
- No friends before three o'clock.
- Tea time at half-past four.
- Tidy up at 6.15 pm.
- Afterwards wash unless you have been washed before.
- Lights out at eight o'clock.
- Feed Bubbles and Philip.
- Always have something on your feet.
- If come down in pygamas after bath have a dressing gown.
- Tidy up after Country Dancing.
- Do not go into other peoples bedrooms when they are not there.
- Do not go out of the garden without permishon.
- Keep your sandals at school.
- Do your homework as soon as you get home.
- After football put your things on the washing masheen.
- Do not go out with your school things.
- Do not let any friends in without asking Mummy or Daddy.
- Do not talk in bed at night.
- Eat properly at the table.
- Do not take the sand out of the sand pit.
- Do not put sand in the pool.
- Do not put water in the sand.
- Do not put sand out of the garden.
- Do not put sand all over the garden.
- Do not go on the front lawn.
- Do not go on the back lawn when it is wet.
- Do not climb on the fence.
- Do not throw the ball in other peoples gardens.
- Do not walk on the garden.
- Do not break the hut.
- Put your bikes in at night.
- Switch the light out when leaving a room.
- Do not play with the taps.
- Be polite to the rest of the family.
- Do not interupt Daddy when he is talking.
- Do not pinch things out of the larder.
- Do not get washed without you undressing and do not use the bath wrongly.
- Leave your boots in the porch.
- Do not go into Daddy['s] tool shed.
- Do not leave the table during meals.
- Do not play with DV[?] dangerous.
- These rules must be obeyed.
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