A Modest Proposal and Other Satires
Why does Swift reject the idea of using fourteen yr. olds for food?
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Swift dismisses his friend's idea because he says the flesh of fourteen-year-old boys is too lean, and fourteen-year-old girls might soon become breeders of infants themselves.
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A Modest Proposal
