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Saturday, 10 September 2011

Proverb about not rocking your baby to sleep on your lap

""Let not the child sleep on bones" - Somerset

i.e. The nurses lap"

Ray 1768

[Interesting that Ray, being from the class that writes books, assumes this is about the 'nurse' looking after the child, not their parents.]

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