`` It 's slang ; and it 's wrong for little boys to use slang . '' `` There 's an awful lot of things it 's wrong to do , '' said Davy with a sigh . `` I never s ` posed there was so many . I 'm sorry it 's wrong to tell whop ... falsehoods , 'cause it 's awful handy , but since it is I 'm never going to tell any more . What are you going to do to me for telling them this time ? I want to know . '' Anne looked beseechingly at Marilla . `` I do n't want to be too hard on the child , '' said Marilla . `` I daresay nobody ever did tell him it was wrong to tell lies , and those Sprott children were no fit companions for him . Poor Mary was too sick to train him properly and I presume you could n't expect a six-year-old child to know things like that by instinct . I suppose we 'll just have to assume he does n't know ANYTHING right and begin at the beginning . But he 'll have to be punished for shutting Dora up , and I ca n't think of any way except to send him to bed without his supper and we 've done that so often . Ca n't you suggest something else , Anne ? I should think you ought to be able to , with that imagination you 're always talking of . '' `` But punishments are so horrid and I like to imagine only pleasant things , '' said Anne , cuddling Davy . `` There are so many unpleasant things in the world already that there is no use in imagining any more . '' In the end Davy was sent to bed , as usual , there to remain until noon next day . He evidently did some thinking , for when Anne went up to her room a little later she heard him calling her name softly . Going in , she found him sitting up in bed , with his elbows on his knees and his chin propped on his hands . `` Anne , '' he said solemnly , `` is it wrong for everybody to tell whop ... falsehoods ?
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