Almost every nursery has its particular Black sheep. "A doll, a gollswog, or an animal of some kind is chosen for the part, and once given its bad name it is forever hanged! Naughtiness of all kind is ascribed to it. Te is greedy, disobedient, faithless, bullying, and absurd; its moments of grace are few dnd far between, The old notion of giving Virtue and Vice a concrete personality. seems to survive in_nurserydom, fand bit by bit the force of as ciation becomes so strong that the jowner of "Naughty Tommy" ca not separate him, even in imagination, from Ais wrongdoings.
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