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The Letters of Katherine Mansfield: Volume I

December 1917

December 1917

….Mrs. N. brought me her son for tea yesterday. She left him with me. I think it is the first time I have spent an hour alone with a thoroughly modern enlightened child. I found out that the method practised on him had been to treat him exactly like a grown-up on a small scale. You can imagine the result. I sat and gaped at him. He had brought with him a dairy-farm from Heal's—exactly like a real dairy-farm on a small scale. And of course he did not play with it, because he can't play. He ran it as a little going concern, and I bet he made it pay. God forbid that any child of mine should fall into modern ways….