[Ads-l] "See Spot Run"

[Laurence Horn]

> On Feb 2, 2017, at 9:52 PM, Shapiro, Fred <fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU> wrote:
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> Come again?
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> Fred Shapiro
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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.

I sort of remember this, or a variant—but is “ihads” for the I-initial word really legal?  And that second sentence, unlike the first and third, doesn’t seem particularly grammatical, but maybe that’s because I can’t figure out the “ihads”.

LH
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>      From: "Shapiro, Fred" <fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU>
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> In the Yale Book of Quotations, I have the following:
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> 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.
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> Is anyone able to supply any further information about where the "Spot run"=
> lines first appeared?
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> Fred Shapiro
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