kible

[George Thompson]

This is from a handwritten document in the files of the District Attorney of New York County, and I don't guarantee that I have read the key word correctly, though I don't think I am very far off.

        deponent asked her what the Doctor had given it to her for to which she answered because I let him feel my little Kible
        New York County District Attorney's records, folder of June 7, 1805.  a deposition against a child-molester; the speaker is a woman, quoting her 3 or 4 year old daughter

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George A. Thompson
Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern Univ. Pr., 1998, but nothing much lately.

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