"...instead of letting them pick flowers, and make mudpies, and find birds' nests, and dance round the gooseberry bush, as little children should, (they) kept them always at lessons, working, working, working, learning weekday lessons all weekdays, and Sunday lessons all Sunday, and weekly examinations every Saturday, and monthly examinations every month, and yearly examinations every year, everything seven times over, as if once was not enough, and enough as good as a feast, till their brains grew big and their bodies grew small, and they were all changed into turnips..."
The Water-Babies, Charles Kingley
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