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Naughty Child


Jean McMahon (Dyer, Ind.) in Reader's Digest, April 1980

Attending church in Kentucky, we watched an especially verbal and boisterous child being hurried out, slung under his irate father's arm. No one in the congregation so much as raised an eyebrow&md;until the child captured everyone's attention by crying out in a charming Southern accent, "Ya'll pray for me now!"