Household Principles for Children 
from the Old Testament  Continued-

Lamentations of the Father by Ian Frazier
 



Concerning Face and Hands 




Cast your countenance upward to the light, and lift your eyes to

the hills, that I may more easily wash you off. For the stains

are upon you; even to the very back of your head, there is rice

thereon.



And in the breast pocket of your garment, and upon the tie of your

shoe, rice and other fragments

are distributed in a manner wonderful to see.



Only hold yourself still; hold still, I say. Give each finger in

its turn for my examination

thereof, and also each thumb. Lo, how iniquitous they appear. What

I do is as it must be; and you

shall not go hence until I have done.



 
Various Other Laws, Statutes, and Ordinances 




Bite not, lest you be cast into quiet time. Neither drink of your

own bath water, nor of the bath water of any kind; nor rub your

feet on bread, even if it be in the package; nor rub yourself against

cars, nor against any building; nor eat sand.



Leave the cat alone, for what has the cat done, that you should

so afflict it with tape? And hum not the humming in your nose as

I read, nor stand between the light and the book. Indeed, you will

drive me to madness.



Nor forget what I said about the tape.