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I perceive that you grow impatient for those aquatic pleasures for which you have temporarily abjured the more severe delights of scholarship. Little boy, I wish you a very good swim." "Gee," muttered the small boy, "gee, ain't he the word-slinger!" He returned to the pool but something of its charm was dissipated. Vague thoughts of school inspectors and retribution troubled its waters.
"It's rather technical," I replied, smiling. "Yes," he said, in vague admiration; "it's fierce, ain't it?" After a silence I asked him if he would tell me why he had chosen Darwin as a literary pastime. "Well," he said, placidly, "I was tryin' to read about annermals, but I'm up against a word-slinger this time all right.
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