A Modest Proposal and Other Satires

Paragraph 11: How much should a child weigh at 12 months?

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I have reckoned upon a medium that a child just born will weigh twelve pounds, and a solar year if tolerably nursed increaseth to twenty-eight pounds.

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A Modest Proposal