790. Sticks and stones
© Bruce Goodman 9 December 2015






Mummy! Mummy! At school they called me Farty-Pants. Johnny called me Farty-Pants and then everyone started calling me Farty-Pants! Farty-Pants! I don’t want to go to school tomorrow.

Listen, Tommy. All you have to do is say Sticks and stones will break my bones but names will never hurt me! You say it now!

Sticks and stones will break my bones but names will never hurt me!

There! So if at school tomorrow they call you names, all you have to do is say:

Sticks and stones will break my bones but names will never hurt me!

The next day Tommy went off to school. Mummy knew she’d told him a load of crap.





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