Numskull does not understand about baby's skull. Sticks needle through it

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Numskull does not understand about baby's skull. Sticks needle through it.

The wise and the foolish. · Fools (and other unwise persons). · Absurd disregard of facts. · Fatal disregard of anatomy. · view the constellation · filed as J1911.1

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Scholars’ trail — 3references

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SpanishEspinosa III 147
West IndiesFlowers 486.
general *Wesselski Hodscha Nasreddin II 215 No. 445

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Filed under Nature of a baby misunderstood.

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Foolish mother does not understand how babies cry. Wrings the child's neck

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