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He was one overwhelming and incessant outcry for adventure. He would toddle all day about the place, getting his "mungies" into all sorts of messes. He was hard to fit into so small a place, and there were times when his parents were tempted to wish that some phenomenon a trifle less portentous had fallen to their lot.
And then there had to be more spankings of "mungies", to teach the infant that this mysterious mosquito-bar must not be walked through, nor pulled at, nor poked with sticks, nor even eaten. They prayed for fair days, and a little sunshine; and it seemed as if the weather-demons had discovered this, and were playing with them.
After long experience he came to realize that at such times Papa would not pay any attention to him, and that crossing the chalk-line involved getting one's "mungies" spanked. There were other troubles that fell upon them. At first, it being April, it was cold at night; and they had no stove, and no room for a stove.
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