Teach Your Children Well

Safety lessons for young people, from The Book of Accidents (1831):

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“Horses are very dangerous, but most useful animals. To be kicked by them is almost certain death.”

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“Careless children, in spite of warning, often run across the street when carts and carriages are near, and are knocked down and run over.”

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“Many children delight in teazing dogs, and without caution go too near them, by which they get miserably torn and mangled.”

(More to come.)