Axe-Proof?

What's this ad telling us?

 

Edison Home Phonograph

Color chromolithograph advertisement, 1901

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"It's telling me parental guidance is in short supply.

 

"First lesson

would be how to hold the axe correctly.

 

"Lesson two

send him outside with orders to chop firewood until the blisters on his hand give him a aversion to axes.

 

"Lesson three

send him to the Captain Bligh Sunday school to learn seamanship and discipline. And hard tack for dinner. "

 

-- Steve (below)

Done