I imagine even back then, in the good old days, the odd child was born on the wrong side of the blanket."

'Do you know what being born on the wrong side of the blanket means?'

I'm probably damned anyway, for having the poor taste to be born on the wrong side of the blankets."

I should have expected to find born on the wrong side of the blanket and fiddler's green , among others.

He was also the man who had first revealed to Michael that he had a half sister, born on the wrong side of the blanket.

So this was Ranulf's mistress, the mother of his children born on the wrong side of the blanket.

An ancestor of mine was his son, born on the wrong side of the blanket, of course."

Percy was born on the wrong side of the blanket but is in the midst of becoming legitimate at this very moment."

Children of unwed mothers may no longer suffer endless stigma: People no longer use terms like "born on the wrong side of the blanket."

It's just my grandmother says that because he was born on the wrong side of the blanket it means . . . ' he paused.

As Ben J. Wattenberg has written of those born on the wrong side of the blanket: "It was once called bastardy.

"If a man has that many babes born on the wrong side of the blanket whom he acknowledges as his and even supports, then you know that there must be many others, too.

"Besides, it seems to me that your wife might not take it too well that you have known about me for years yet never told her that you had a sister born on the wrong side of the blanket.

"Still, my lady, I do not think that there are many husbands who would wish to hear that their wives had come to visit a gaming establishment or spoken to his relatives that were born on the wrong side of the blanket."

That didn't necessarily mean that she and Son Tidwell weren't married, of course, and even if they hadn't been, the little boy who'd been caught in the trap could have been born on the wrong side of the blanket.

And I cannot think how some missing female relative could affect them, anyway, especially if it were one born on the wrong side of the blanket...and that is the only reason I can imagine any of their relatives having been placed in an orphanage.

Or, if I am not my mother's child, just one she rescued, then I could still be a niece or cousin to your son's wife, or even someone of low birth, a de Vipont by blood, but born on the wrong side of the blanket."