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* DueToTheDead: In accordance with Dad's last wishes, Mother arranges for his brain to be studied at Harvard and scatters his ashes at sea.
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* DueToTheDead: In accordance with Dad's last wishes, Mother "Mortuary Myrt", a family friend, arranges for his brain to be studied at Harvard Harvard, and Mother scatters his ashes at sea.in the Atlantic Ocean.
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* ThePeepingTom: The Gilbreth children deal with one of these by threatening to set his tree on fire.
* PrecisionFStrike: Dad's struggles with swearing are a running theme. Officially, he stopped swearing when he got married, but there seem to have been many exceptions.
--> "Jesus Christ," he screamed, as if he had been saving this oath since his wedding day for just such an occasion.
* PrecisionFStrike: Dad's struggles with swearing are a running theme. Officially, he stopped swearing when he got married, but there seem to have been many exceptions.
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* ThePeepingTom: The Gilbreth children deal with one of these by threatening to [[ MurderByCremation set his tree on on]] fire.
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** Dad's struggles with swearing are a running theme. Officially, he stopped swearing when he got married, but there seem to have been many exceptions.
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** Dad's struggles with swearing are a running theme. Officially, he stopped swearing when he got married, but there seem to have been many exceptions.
** This theme was understandably removed from the film adaptation due to the Hays Code, but he still calls someone a jackass in reference to a comparison that had been made to Noah's Ark.
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* TakeThisJobAndShoveIt: Dad hires a cameraman to film all of his kids and himself getting their tonsils removed. When the cameraman hesitated, Dad threatened to rip out his tonsils personally. After the operations are done, the cameraman writes a letter saying he left the lens cap on the camera, and he quits. Dad, post-surgery, rips up the letter.
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* TakeThisJobAndShoveIt: Dad hires a cameraman to film all of his kids and himself getting their tonsils removed. When the cameraman hesitated, Dad threatened to rip out his tonsils personally. After the operations are done, the cameraman writes a letter saying he left the lens cap on the camera, camera (in the film adaptation, there was instead no film in the camera), and he quits. Dad, post-surgery, rips up the letter.
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* FauxHorrific: The thought of Anne wanting silk stockings instead of standard nylons horrifies her parents. they ask what is the matter with standard nylon.
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* YankTheDogsChain: It seems that Martha is the only one who doesn't need her tonsils removed, and she goes to have a luxurious solo vacation with a CoolAunt that spoils her rotten. The doctor then reveals that it was Ernestine who didn't need her tonsils removed, and Martha has to go in for surgery after eating sweets for a few days. She understandably protests, saying that it wasn't fair, but the doctor with NoSympathy says that he's going to pretend her tonsils belong to Ernestine. The kids are sympathetic because Martha didn't ask for this and she had the hardest time with recovery.
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* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: A few episodes address the kids' being embarrassed by having famous parents, especially when they themselves are dragged into Dad's doings, such as the newsreel about burying old-fashioned pencils to make way for mechanical ones, which the children [[OnceDoneNeverForgotten never hear the end of at school]]. Other times the whole family falls victim to an inaccurate portrayal in the press.
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** A few episodes address the kids' being embarrassed by having famous parents, especially when they themselves are dragged into Dad's doings, such as the newsreel about burying old-fashioned pencils to make way for mechanical ones, which the children [[OnceDoneNeverForgotten never hear the end of at school]]. Other times the whole family falls victim to an inaccurate portrayal in the press.
** A few episodes address the kids' being embarrassed by having famous parents, especially when they themselves are dragged into Dad's doings, such as the newsreel about burying old-fashioned pencils to make way for mechanical ones, which the children [[OnceDoneNeverForgotten never hear the end of at school]]. Other times the whole family falls victim to an inaccurate portrayal in the press.
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* AngryChef: Chew Wong, the chef employed by Mother's family, is very temperamental, keeping almost everyone out of his kitchen and responding to criticism with a ForeignLanguageTirade. He decides he likes Billy Gilbreth, however, and the family elects to let Billy back in the kitchen when his removal causes Chew Wong to brood, which affects his cooking. [[BunnyEarsLawyer He seemingly keeps his position by making very tasty meals.]]
* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: The younger Gilbreths, jealous of the way their older sisters' boyfriends were affecting family dynamics, took it upon themselves to make them uncomfortable.
* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: The younger Gilbreths, jealous of the way their older sisters' boyfriends were affecting family dynamics, took it upon themselves to make them uncomfortable.
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* AngryChef: Chew Wong, the chef employed by Mother's family, is very temperamental, keeping almost everyone out of his kitchen and responding to criticism with a ForeignLanguageTirade. He decides he likes Billy Gilbreth, however, and the family elects to let Billy back in the kitchen when his removal causes Chew Wong to brood, which affects his cooking. [[BunnyEarsLawyer [[SupremeChef He seemingly keeps his position by making very tasty meals.]]
* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: The youngerGilbreths, jealous Gilbreths tend to work as a unit to torment their elder siblings. Jealous of the way their older sisters' boyfriends were affecting family dynamics, took the six little kids take it upon themselves to make them uncomfortable.
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* MotherNatureFatherScience: Mother the psychologist and father the efficiency expert. Both apply their respective fields in raising a huge family, and both know that their attitudes complement each other.
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* MotherNatureFatherScience: Mother the psychologist and father Father the efficiency expert. Both apply their respective fields in raising a huge family, and both know that their attitudes complement each other. It's reflected in the dedication: "To our Father, who only raised 12 children, and our Mother, who raised 12 only children."
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* OverprotectiveDad: Particularly as the girls get older and the suitors start arriving.
** When little Robert tells the other kids at school that his father created the most efficient way of showering[[note]]a method which, incidentally, is used in the American military to this day[[/note]], they convince him to demonstrate. Innocently mistaking their teasing for genuine interest, Robert shows them (while fully dressed) and is mercilessly bullied for days afterwards until Father finds out, shows up at school, and roars the bullies into meekness.
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* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: A few episodes address the kids' being embarrassed by having famous parents, especially when they themselves are dragged into Dad's doings, such as the newsreel about burying old-fashioned pencils to make way for mechanical ones, which the children [[NeverLiveItDown [[OnceDoneNeverForgotten never hear the end of at school]]. Other times the whole family falls victim to an inaccurate portrayal in the press.
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* DueToTheDead: In accordance with Dad's last wishes, Mother arranges for his brain to be studied at Harvard and scatters his ashes at sea.
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* HighHeelHurt: Mother Gilbreth protests her daughters' decision to wear high heels in high school using the family obsession with efficiency. She tells her oldest, Anne, that it's absurd for her and her sisters to go around in obviously tiring shoes while their father lectures around the United States on removing wasted effort.
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* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Mary (only a footnote in the sequel reveals that she was dead, although it's all too easy for the reader to guess).
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* LanguageFluencyDenial: The narrator notes that Chew Wong's English fluency abruptly deteriorated when someone tried to criticize him or order him around, when he would launch into a ForeignLanguageTirade and stalk off.
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* BigFun: DadDad weighs a good deal over two hundred pounds and is quite jovial, with a mischievous sense of humor.
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* DeathGlare: Dad gives one of these to one of his children who asks if he "got his tonsils out the way the Spartans used to get theirs out."
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* DeathGlare: Dad gives one of these to glares fiercely at one of his children who asks if he "got his tonsils out the way the Spartans used to get theirs out.""
* DeliveryStork: This gets mentioned when Mother has to have "the talk" with the children. She tells them to start out with that babies aren't brought by storks, and is surprised to learn they already know that.
* DeliveryStork: This gets mentioned when Mother has to have "the talk" with the children. She tells them to start out with that babies aren't brought by storks, and is surprised to learn they already know that.
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* DirectionlessDriver: Dad. Not that he ever admitted it.
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* DirectionlessDriver: Dad. Not Dad frequently got lost while driving, that he ever admitted it.it. In fact, he frequently blamed the person trying to give him directions for getting him lost.
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* DrivesLikeCrazy: Dad tends to drive crazily, much to the dismay of Mother.
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* DrivesLikeCrazy: Dad tends to drive crazily, much to far too fast for Mother's comfort. He also doesn't necessarily see the dismay of Mother.other vehicles with which he's sharing the roadway.
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* TheTalk: At one point, a very reluctant Mother attempts to have this with her children, but she succeeds in getting across more apiology than human biology.
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* TheTalk: At one point, the children think a new baby has arrived after Mother goes to bed early with a cold. Dad rushes out, leaving a very reluctant Mother attempts to have this with her children, but explain to the children how babies arrive. However, she succeeds in getting across more apiology than human biology.biology, and the children are simply left confused.
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* AndThatLittleGirlWasMe: During one occasion when the Gilbreths had a guest over for dinner, said guest told a sad story, which turned out to be about himself. (The children suspected it but didn't say so.) Lillian, in tears over her failure to see to a guest's happiness, hugged him, hence becoming his favorite of the children from then on.
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* HugeGirlTinyGuy: Anne's first boyfriend, Joe Scales, wasn't even as tall as her shoulder.
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* NauticalKnockout: Dad buys a catboat called the ''Rena''. During one sailing excursion, the boom swings across the deck and hits Dad in the head, knocking him overboard. He stays underwater for almost a minute, but when he comes up, he's bleeding from his nose and dazed, but otherwise fine.
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* CameraObscurer: Dad wants the removal of his children's and his own tonsils filmed. Since he wants to show the children how easy it is (and, he says, to keep an eye on the cameraman), he stays conscious during the procedure, and suffers great pain because of this. The pain turned out to be all for naught when the cameraman reveals he accidentally left the lens cap on.
* CutlassBetweenTheTeeth: Referred to in the chapter about what it was like when a baby was born into the Gilbreth household.
-->So when Anne was born, in New York, Dad was not the least bit disappointed, because he'd known all along she would be a girl. It is doubtful if any father was ever more insane about an offspring. It was just as well that Anne was a girl. If she had been a boy, Dad might have toppled completely off the deep end, and run amok with a kris in his teeth.
-->So when Anne was born, in New York, Dad was not the least bit disappointed, because he'd known all along she would be a girl. It is doubtful if any father was ever more insane about an offspring. It was just as well that Anne was a girl. If she had been a boy, Dad might have toppled completely off the deep end, and run amok with a kris in his teeth.
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* GoneHorriblyRight: Frank Gilbreth Sr. prides himself in having his family operate much like their own company, holding meetings about matters, bidding on bigger chores, etc. This backfires when his children conspire and all vote in favor of getting a dog, which of course has them outvote him twelve to one. He panics when this happens, as he realizes that they could conceivably vote in favor of all sorts of frivolous things. Fortunately, they stop with the dog.
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* RoadSignReversal: One of the reasons Dad gives for never listening to signs when he drives is that somebody has probably messed with them. The narrator suggests he was remembering pranks that were pulled when he was young.
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* TheTonsillitisEpisode: At one point, several of the older Gilbreths got their tonsils out, all at once.
* ToughLove
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* TheTonsillitisEpisode: At one point, several of the older Gilbreths got their tonsils out, all at once.
*once. However, the doctor mislabels one of the tonsil X-rays, and so one of the girls who thought she didn't have to get hers out is dragged to the doctor. In a separate, but closely related incident, Dad decides to get his taken out and have it filmed. The operation goes off smoothly, but the cameraman made a mistake and none of it recorded.
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* ForgotToMindTheirHead: Dad has recently pulled a practical joke on his children, telling them to look in the engine for a bird and then honking the horn loudly. One day when Dad is having to fix the car after a family picnic, one of the younger children sneaks into the car and presses the horn, causing him to hit his head on the hood and burn his wrist on the exhaust pipe.
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* MassiveNumberedSiblings: the Gilbreths ''did'' have 12 children.
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* MomentKiller: the Gilbreth girls had plenty of trouble with their younger siblings and their father disrupting dates once they started dating.
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* MomentKiller: the The Gilbreth girls had plenty of trouble with their younger siblings and their father disrupting dates once they started dating.
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* ThePeepingTom: the Gilbreth children deal with one of these by threatening to set his tree on fire.
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* ThePeepingTom: the The Gilbreth children deal with one of these by threatening to set his tree on fire.
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* SkipTheAnesthetic: Dad decides to have his tonsils removed with only a local anesthetic [[note]]normally that would be done under general anesthetic[[/note]] ... and regrets it.
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* TheTalk: at one point, a very reluctant Mother attempts to have this with her children, but she succeeds in getting across more apiology than human biology.
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* TheTalk: at At one point, a very reluctant Mother attempts to have this with her children, but she succeeds in getting across more apiology than human biology.
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* TheTonsillitisEpisode: at one point, several of the older Gilbreths got their tonsils out, all at once.
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* TheTonsillitisEpisode: at At one point, several of the older Gilbreths got their tonsils out, all at once.
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--> Frankly, Dad didn't drive our car well at all. But he did drive it fast. He terrified all of us, but particularly Mother. She sat next to him on the front seat--with two of the babies on her lap--and alternated between clutching Dad's arm and closing her eyes in supplication. Whenever we rounded a corner, she would try to make a shield out of her body to protect the babies from what she felt sure would be mutilation or death.\\
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--> Frankly, Dad didn't drive our car well at all. But he did drive it fast. He terrified all of us, but particularly Mother. She sat next to him on the front seat--with two of the babies on her lap--and alternated between clutching Dad's arm and closing her eyes in supplication. Whenever we rounded a corner, she would try to make a shield out of her body to protect the babies from what she felt sure would be mutilation or death.\\
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* RewindGag: One of the family's mealtimes is shown in fast-forward on a newsreel at the local theatre. Dad comments that it could have been worse; at least it didn't rewind it so it looked as though they vomited their food onto their plates.
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* RewindGag: One of the family's mealtimes is shown in fast-forward [[FastForwardGag fast-forward]] on a newsreel at the local theatre. Dad comments that it could have been worse; at least it didn't rewind it so it looked as though they vomited their food onto their plates.
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* RewindGag: One of the family's mealtimes is shown in fast-forward on a newsreel at the local theatre. Dad comments that it could have been worse; at least it didn't rewind it so it looked as though they vomited their food onto their plates.
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It was followed up by ''Belles On Their Toes'', which chronicled the adventures of the family as they are raised by widow Lillian Moller Gilbreth. The two books were adapted to film in 1950 and 1952, respectively; an InNameOnly film was [[Film/CheaperByTheDozen released in 2003]].
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It was followed up by ''Belles On Their Toes'', ''Literature/BellesOnTheirToes'', which chronicled the adventures of the family as they are raised by widow Lillian Moller Gilbreth. The two books were adapted to film in 1950 and 1952, respectively; an InNameOnly film was [[Film/CheaperByTheDozen released in 2003]].
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* ShrinkingViolet: One of Ernestine's admirers is too shy to tell her his feelings in person, so he sends her a photo of himself with a sweet message. The younger children embarrass him by doing a "three-part harmony" of the message while he and Ernestine are in the room.
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It was followed up by ''Literature/BellesOnTheirToes'', which chronicled the adventures of the family as they are raised by widow Lillian Moller Gilbreth. The two books were adapted to film in 1950 and 1952, respectively; an InNameOnly film was [[Film/CheaperByTheDozen released in 2003]].
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It was followed up by ''Literature/BellesOnTheirToes'', ''Belles On Their Toes'', which chronicled the adventures of the family as they are raised by widow Lillian Moller Gilbreth. The two books were adapted to film in 1950 and 1952, respectively; an InNameOnly film was [[Film/CheaperByTheDozen released in 2003]].
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It was followed up by ''Belles on Their Toes'', ''Literature/BellesOnTheirToes'', which chronicled the adventures of the family as they are raised by widow Lillian Moller Gilbreth. The two books were adapted to film in 1950 and 1952, respectively; an InNameOnly film was [[Film/CheaperByTheDozen released in 2003]].
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* MomentKiller: the Gilbreth girls had plenty of trouble with their younger siblings and their father being this once they started dating.
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* EveryoneKnowsMorse: The father decides his children should learn Morse code and paints messages in it on the walls. Most of them translate to {{Incredibly Lame Pun}}s (one of which, "Two maggots were fighting in dead Ernest," his wife makes him paint out because it's not appropriate for the dining room, in code or otherwise). One of the kids remarks on how they won't be satisfied now until they've figured them all out, even though they know the most they're going to get out of it is bad jokes.
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''Cheaper By the Dozen'' (1948), written by Frank Gilbreth, Jr., and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey, is the hysterical tale of the Gilbreth family - Dad, a 'motion study' engineer who always believed in bringing his work ideas home; Mother, a calm psychologist; and their dozen children: Anne, Mary, Ernestine, Martha, Frank, Bill, Lill, Fred, Dan, Jack, Bob, and Jane. The book, set in 1920s New Jersey, details the events which occurred during the childhood of the titular dozen, up until the point that their father passed away.
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''Cheaper By the Dozen'' (1948), written by Frank Gilbreth, Jr., and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey, is the hysterical tale of the Gilbreth family - -- Dad, a 'motion study' engineer who always believed in bringing his work ideas home; Mother, a calm psychologist; and their dozen children: Anne, Mary, Ernestine, Martha, Frank, Bill, Lill, Fred, Dan, Jack, Bob, and Jane. The book, set in 1920s New Jersey, details the events which occurred during the childhood of the titular dozen, up until the point that their father passed away.
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* DrivesLikeCrazy: Dad, much to the dismay of Mother.
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-->"That's nice," said the man sympathetically. "Real nice. Of course, the other boys in his class may tease him about having a girl's name, but..."
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* EyeScream: Anne comments briefly that in Lady Godiva's time, they'd probably have put peeping toms' eyes out.
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* ICantLookGesture: Anne, playing a factory superintendent in one of the skits the Gilbreth children performed (about the family), covers her eyes and says that she "can't watch" the one of the Gilbreth children who is squatting over a buzz saw. "Dad" (Frank) says to leave him alone, as kids have to learn by experience.
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-> Frankly, Dad didn't drive our car well at all. But he did drive it fast. He terrified all of us, but particularly Mother. She sat next to him on the front seat--with two of the babies on her lap--and alternated between clutching Dad's arm and closing her eyes in supplication. Whenever we rounded a corner, she would try to make a shield out of her body to protect the babies from what she felt sure would be mutilation or death.
