TO PUT IT PROPERLY.
A little boy wrote in his diary: "Got up at.seven, went to bed at eight." His governess suggested that "rose at seven" was a more elegant way of putting it..
So the ohild erased the entry and briefly chronicled: "Rose at seven; set at eight."
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Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 124, 26 May 1923, Page 19
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49TO PUT IT PROPERLY. Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 124, 26 May 1923, Page 19
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