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His mother thinks 'goo' is awful childish, and she is at him all the time to say 'Daddy-dinger, but he never lets on he hears her. Say, doctor" Pearlie's face was troubled "what do you think of his looks? Just between ourselves. Hasn't he a fine little nub of a nose? Do you see anything about him to make his mother cry?"
He wriggled off Mary's knee, and toddling uncertainly across the grass with a mighty mental conflict in his pudgy little face, held out his dimpled arms with a glad cry of "Daddy-dinger!" That evening while Mrs. Ducker and Maudie were busy fanning Mr. Ducker and putting wet towels on his head, Mr. Evans sat down to write.
The kid in the book she is readin' could say 'Daddy-dinger' before he was as old as the czar is, and it's awful hard on her. You see, he can't pat-a-cake, or this-little-pig-went-to-market, or wave a bye-bye or nothin'. I never told her what Danny could do when he was this age. But I am workin' hard to get him to say 'Daddy-dinger. She has her heart set on that. Well, I must go on now."
She was thinking of the pretty baby pictures in the magazines, and Algernon was so different! And his nose was strange, too, and she had massaged it so carefully, too, and when, oh when, would he say "Daddy-dinger!"
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