Buster Brown’s Mother’s Day
In honor of Mother’s Day today, we present Buster Brown Plays Another Little Innocent Trick on his Ma, by Richard Felton Outcault. This story comes from the 1903 collection, Buster Brown and His Resolutions. Click here to see the cover of that book, plus another episode of Buster Brown mischief!
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Doug Wheeler

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Superb…but where’s the spanking? I searched for Buster Brown on reading what Nabokov recalls about him and I quote :
“Every episode ended in a tremendous spanking for Buster, which was administered by his wasp-waisted but powerful Ma, who used a slipper, a hairbrush, a brittle umbrella, anything - even the bludgeon of a helpful policeman - and drew puffs of dust from the seat of Buster’s pants.”
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