Punch,  42 (1862), 78.

How to Train Up a Child

Anon

Genre:

Notes, Drollery

Subjects:

Human Development, Railways, Mental Illness


    Argues that the best way to train a child is to make it behave in a disorderly fashion on a railway train (a reference to the trial of William F Windham) which 'may lead him to a commission of lunacy' and allow him to 'run through his property' faster than a railway.



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