“ Mamma, what is hereditary ?” asked Bobby, shedding a few tears and laboriooaly tripping over the syllables of the long word. “ Why, it is—is something you get from your father or me,” replied the mother. Silence for two minutes, and more tears. “ Then, ma,” he said, “is spanking here* ditary ?”
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Evening Star, Issue 10339, 12 June 1897, Page 4 (Supplement)
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49Untitled Evening Star, Issue 10339, 12 June 1897, Page 4 (Supplement)
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