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The spaniel was a great bore, begging and doing small tricks first at one and then at the other of us. Neither of us used his name. You see we had called him Miggles, and made a sort of trio in the baby-talk of Mutney and Miggles and Ming. Then presently we resumed our monstrous, momentous dialogue. I can't now make out how long that dialogue went on.
"Oh, for shame, Bartley! To talk of baby's ever killing!" "Why, that's what they all come to. It's what you came to yourself." "Yes, I know. But it's quite another thing with baby." She began to mumble it with her lips, and to talk baby-talk to it. In their common interest in this puppet they already called each other papa and mamma.
She kept talking as if to the baby in their baby-talk. Thyrsis would listen, until he would choke up with tears. He left her, and went up to the farm, and got the horse and sleigh again, and drove to another town. It made no difference what doctor he got to Thyrsis all doctors were alike, the keepers of the keys of health. After several hours' pursuit he found that this man also was busy.
In this constrained attitude he hopped about the clear space in front of the audience with a good deal of dexterity, talking baby-talk in a shrill falsetto. "Howdy, pappa! Howdy, mamma! Itty Tudie tum adin!" A rough man and woman, between joy and grief, were half hysterical.
It was more like that sickening gibberish that nurses call “baby-talk,” than anything else in the world. She spoke with a detestable whine, and pronounced each syllable of every word separately, as if she feared a two-syllable word might choke her. Sick at the stomach as was her visitor at the whole babyish performance, he so far controlled his qualms as to note down the words hereunder written.
When it is awake it is well to talk to it quietly and soothingly, for thus the infant begins to learn its mother's tongue. Good language should be employed. Those who teach their children baby-talk are handicapping them, for they will soon have to unlearn this and learn real language.
Nearly all spoke several languages, not in her own fashion of broken French, broken German, and baby-talk Italian, but with perfect facility and correctness of grammar. Nearly all were thoroughly grounded in mathematics, history, literature, and science.
Mothers get to understand the older idiom, just as they do baby-talk, by the same heart-key. She knew that the "needn't" and the "didn't" referred to the "wanting to." "You see, I don't think it would be a good plan to let them begin with me so." "You're a very sagacious little Ruth," said Mrs. Holabird, affectionately. "And a very generous one." "No, indeed!" Ruth exclaimed at that.
Baby-talk and nonsense! By that time they might have burned the place and killed all the people in it. Let's see, now: there's a railroad bridge close along here, somewhere." They scouted till they found the bridge. But behold, its floor was of cross-ties only of sleepers to carry the rails, laid with wide breaks between, gaping down into deep, dark space whose bed was the roaring river.
When Swift was absent, how ever, the two ladies occupied his apartments; and Stella became more than ever essential to his happiness. When they were separated for any length of time Swift wrote to Stella in a sort of baby-talk, which they called "the little language." It was made up of curious abbreviations and childish words, growing more and more complicated as the years went on.
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