Baa, Baa, Black Sheep

"When I come back to Bombay," said Punch on his recovery, "I will come by the road--in a broom-gharri. This is a very naughty ship."

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Punch and Judy's story reminds me of so many things that happened to me in childhood, although the families I lived with were not physically cruel to me, of course. I might have turned out better if I had received an offhand blow upside the head every now and then. But then, I might have turned out worse.