Come up here, O dusty feet!
Here is fairy bread to eat.
Here in my retiring room,
Children, you may dine
On the golden smell of broom
And the shade of pine;
And when you have eaten well,
Fairy stories hear and tell.

�Fairy Bread�

Can I just say immediately, that there is no such phrase as �Fairy Bread�!

�If there had been such a phrase, I would have heard about it.  I haven�t heard the phrase used, therefore, obviously, it doesn�t exist�.

In offering this quotation, may I thank the �School of Claptrap�, for the use of their text-books, �Mixing with the Right People�, by Jocelyn Sholders; and, �A Futile Argument�, by Xavier Breth.

I suspect that the phrase under discussion is actually, �Fairly Bred�, the title of the book about British aristocratic families, by Hans Doolittle.

It may even be, �Dairy Bed�, the definitive pamphlet about milk production, sub-titled, �Cow Buyers and Cow Byers�, by Anita Bath.

This leaflet on milk, which was originally in 5 volumes, has now been condensed.  It contains numerous milk recipes, including one for memory loss, Milk of Amnesia.

It also includes the first recorded joke about Cleopatra bathing in the milk of an ass.  She ordered her bath to be filled with milk, and was asked by a servant:

�Pasteurise?�

�No, just up to my neck!�

However, Apodo, if you wish to introduce Psychology into �Phrase of the Day�, I respectfully suggest that you first read, �The Reason for Existence�, by Ray Zondette.

Les