Selling a Parent
Anon
Genre: | News-Commentary, Drollery |
Subjects: | Breeding, Invention, Technology, Cruelty, Steam-power |
Reports the sale of one of Mr Cantelo's 'Artificial Mothers', a move which it regards as so immoral as to be 'a step beyond Smithfield'. Surmises that the invention 'is a hot-water tray, which, if properly regulated, produced chickens, but if over-heated, omelettes'. | |
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