KENT ROCKWELL Typed Letter Signed to EB Smith

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"DON'T LET THEM GIVE YOU MASHED POTATOES FOR ICE CREAM" KENT, ROCKWELL. Typed Letter Signed, to E.B. Smith, recounting an anecdote that contains a moral for children. 1 1/4 pages, 4to, personal stationery, written on separate sheets; horizontal folds. (MRS) Au Sable Forks, NY, 14 April 1941

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"'The Best I Know,' and that I offer you . . . . has . . . a little moral:
"We had vanilla ice-cream for dessert and Dick Kent, aged five, loved it. He loved it so much that he ate it fast. And eating it fast he got those excruciating pains that all of us . . . know well.
"'What's the matter, Dick?' I asked him, seeing the awful face he was making. 'Don't you like it?'
"'Yes, Father,' he said, 'but it's so cold.'
"'Give it to me, Dick,' I said, 'and I'll take it out to the kitchen and warm it.' So I took his plate and, in the kitchen, substituted for the ice-cream an exact equivalent of mashed potatoes. . . .
"'You like it now, Dick, don't you?' I said.
"'Yes, Father,' said Dick . . . , 'but you know it tastes a little bit like mashed potatoes.'
"And the moral is: Kids, when you get out into life, don't let them give you mashed potatoes for ice-cream."