Here are mummy and daddy. Mummy is prettier than daddy ...
Transcript of Here are mummy and daddy. Mummy is prettier than daddy ...
Here are mummy and daddy.
Mummy is prettier than
daddy, and much cleverer,
too.
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prettier cleverer mummy
Here are Peter and Jane.
Jane is teaching Peter to
read. It is slow, because
Peter is a boy.
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teaching
Pat the dog has been trained
to bow before skirts.
Good boy, Pat!
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skirts
“Mummy says training dogs is
like training men,” says Jane.
“Can I have one?” drools
Peter.
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drools training
Peter’s school has girls and
boys in the same class!
It is very hard for the boys.
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hard boys
Peter has opinions on Jane’s
dress, but he doesn’t dare
say.
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opinions
“Can I come up yet?” says
Peter.
“You’ll stay where you are,”
says Jane.
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“I told him to stand in a
bucket and try to lift himself
up,” says Jane.
“Boys are so stupid,” laughs
Helen.
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bucket stupid
“I’ll walk in the flowerbeds if I
damn well choose,” says
Jane, “I’m a girl.”
“I love you,” says Peter.
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damn flowerbeds
“When I grow up, I want to be
a train driver,” says Peter.
“You’ll be my driver,” says
Jane.
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train driver
Jane has found her skipping-
rope.
“When you have finished
here, you will do my room,”
she says.
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skipping-rope finished
“Mummy seems cross,” says
daddy. “I think I might stay
here”.
“Mummy asked me to take
her these canes,” says Jane.
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might canes
“It’s a soft c in panacetta,”
says mummy. “It’s Italian.”
“He’s such a retard,” laughs
Jane.
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Italian retard
“It’s a crab!” laughs Peter.
“It’s a carcinus maenas,” says
Jane. “Now put it in your
trunks.”
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crab laughs trunks
“Shall we let them out?” says
mummy. “Peter is shivering.”
Jane eats another biscuit.
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shivering biscuit
“Policemen are the brain-
washed bulwarks of the Gyn-
archic State,” says mummy.
“I want to be that,” says
Peter.
“You will,” says Jane.
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policemen brainwashed bulwarks
gynarchic state
On Christmas morning, dad-
dy and Peter are allowed to
sit at table.
“Don’t get too comfy,” says
Jane.
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allowed comfy
“Gynarchy is like a butterfly,”
says Jane. “It is delicate, and
we must care for it together.”
“Yes, Miss,” says Peter.
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delicate Miss