Murkey: She preferred people to think she was looking for her nightstick?

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Here is a change that annoys the hell out of me, because it was clearly deliberate & reveals that the changer did not understand the song. In "The Prodigal Son", Kipling wrote

My father glooms and advises me,
My brother sulks and despises me,
And Mother catechises me
Till I want to go out and swear.

The son (as we have heard) is only a *bit* of a swine. He will not, even in imagination, curse his mother at the dinner table -- no, he imagines excusing himself, as a well-bred person might do who needed to spit. Leslie Fish makes it

Till I want to stand up and swear

-- ruining a fine comic touch. (She also mispronounces "catechise", but that is far more forgivable.)