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The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth

CHAPTER THE FOURTH
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Even nowadays, he says, the cost, of feeding and clothing children is more than many of their parents can contrive, and if this sort of thing is to be permitted--! Eh?
"You see he makes my mere passing suggestion into a positive proposal.
And then he calculates how much a pair of breeches for a growing lad of twenty feet high or so will cost.

Just as though he really believed--Ten pounds, he reckons, for the merest decency.

Curious this Caterham! So concrete! The honest, and struggling ratepayer will have to contribute to that, he says.

He says we have to consider the Rights of the Parent.
It's all here.

Two columns.


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