That moment you have to tell your friend that their baby is cute, but all you see is this.

That moment you have to tell your friend that their baby is cute, but all you see is this.
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Source: The internet is a place of theft. And I was a notorious thief here. Shame on me, but I will make amends if I ever have EEBO access again. But life out here is hard for the unaffiliated academic.

First posted on Twitter for #WoodcutWednesday on 18 March 2015: the original tweet.

Here endeth this leaf of the Commonplace Book, which ſheweth That moment you have to tell your friend that their baby is cute, but…, the work of its first makers and not of this preſs; only the caption is the Senſeſhaper’s. Copied into this book the eighteenth day of March, 2015. Finis.

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