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The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 6, Issue 8 (April 1, 1932.)

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Words having the same sound but differing in meaning cause children much perplexity. The earliest names they learn are those of animals (including of course the human kind), and the language of adults is best understood when it circles round dogs, pigs, and such like simple subjects. The little girl who called her Teddy “Gladly” had been happy to find a hymn sung frequently about “Gladly My Cross I'd Bear,” and she had re-arranged the eyes of her pet dolly bear so that they would be cross-eyed too. It was an altogether different child who felt certain that all women loved young bears after hearing the hymn:

“Can a mother's tender care
Cease toward the child she bare.”

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