Quote#Wisdom
And this was your Cradle? Why, surely, my Jenny
Quote byFrederick Locker-Lampson · 1821–1895
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The old Cradle; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)..
English (original)
And this was your Cradle? Why, surely, my Jenny, Such cozy dimensions go clearly to show You were an exceedingly small pickaninny, Some nineteen or twenty short summers ago.
— Frederick Locker-Lampson
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