Here’s some advice from Samuel Butler on how to raise a child (for you, Maiko, how to raise Tricky).


When asked to give a rule of life for the son of a friend he said, "Do not let him try
and find out who wrote the letters of Junius." Pressed for further counsel he added, "Nor yet who was the man in the iron mask"--and he would say no more. Don't bore people.