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Podcast: The Personal History, Adventures, Experiences & Observations of Peter Leroy
Episode: 🎧 106: The fox-and-clam episode ...
Description: 4THE FOX-AND-CLAM EPISODE cost the Leightons several pupils. I was one of them. My mother spent much of that afternoon on the telephone. Most of the time, she just listened to the mothers of children who had been upset by the story—children who were lying on their beds, wringing their little hands, staring at the walls—but by the time she had listened to the fourth anxious mother, she had herself become anxious. Over dinner, she told my father what she had learned. “I think it isn’t the right atmosphere for Peter,” she said when she had finishe...