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Tailpiece – 03rd November 1951 – Getting Up

November 1951

South Yorkshire Times, November 3rd, 1951

You know the story of the mother going in and finding her small daughter asleep at 11 o’clock in the morning (in the holidays of course) and saying to the child “Darling, in bed still! Aren’t you ashamed of yourself?” “Yes, Mother,” said the child, “but I like being ashamed of myself more than getting up.

Sir John Maud, Ministry of Education