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Favourites of a nursery of seventy years ago; and some others of later date (1916)

Forbes, Edith Emerson, comp · Boston, Houghton · leaf 372

An illustration from Favourites of a nursery of seventy years ago; and some others of later date, 1916, leaf 372 — Turn not your meat, noi* view it close,Xor ever hold it to your nose.If in your food should chance to beAV^hat cant be eat conveniently.Such as small bones, or stones of fruit,AVhich will not with digestion suit,Kemove them from your mouth away.Or on your plate with silence lay.Throw not a morsel… … Set not your knife and fork up straight.Gaze not upon anothers plate.And bend a little oer your meat —Look not on others while they eat. 354 FAVOURITES OF A NURSERY

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