[Ads-l] "See Spot Run"

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I had _Dick and Jane_ in 1948.  I'm sure "See Spot run" was there. A brilliant casuist disproved every false generalization. He ihads justly known lately. Moreover, no pompous quibbler really said that useful verities were xenophobic yet zealous.

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In the Yale Book of Quotations, I have the following:

See Dick.
See Dick run.
William S. Gray and Edna B. Liek, Teacher's Guidebook for the Elson Basic R=
eaders, Pre-Primer and Primer sec. 1 (1931).  The best-known lines from the=
 "Dick and Jane" readers, "See Spot.  See Spot run.  Run, Spot, run!," do n=
ot appear in the 1931 guidebook but were introduced sometime in the decades=
 following.

Is anyone able to supply any further information about where the "Spot run"=
 lines first appeared?

Fred Shapiro





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