“[A]lways keep a-hold of Nurse
For fear of finding something worse”

—  Hilaire Belloc, book Cautionary Tales for Children

"Jim, Who Ran Away From His Nurse, and Was Eaten by a Lion"
Cautionary Tales for Children (1907)

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