The Fable of the Escape of Arthur and the Salvation of Herbert (1915)

Once there was a lonely man who married, thinking to find a home, but instead running into an experiment station. The other end of the team was an original recipe shark and family doctor. She loved the private clinics, and every time Arthur showed up with a cold she would light on him like a bee on a flower with some of her home remedies. She gave him vinegar tea and lumps of sugar soaked in kerosene until he was driven to drink. Arthur didn't enjoy a real let-up until little Herbert arrived. Then she worked on him. When Herbie was 6 years old he joined a gang and shied bricks at a teamster's child. The experimental mother threw a back twister and wondered why her system failed. Moral: As the father is bent the child is inclined.

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