A Modest Proposal
Paragraph 10: What should the mother do to make sure her baby is plump and fat?
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A mother should nurse her child often in the last month before sale.
That the remaining hundred thousand may at a year old be offered in sale to the persons of quality and fortune through the kingdom, always advising the mother to let them suck plentifully in the last month, so as to render them plump and fat for a good table.