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For a moment coyness overtook the tiny man. Then he faintly replied, "Nu-thans." "Nuisance?" repeated the miner, and again he saw the timid little nod. "But that ain't a name," said Jim. "Is 'Nuisance' all the name the baby's got?" His bit of a guest seemed to think very hard, but at last he nodded as before.
Philip Verrill Mighels - Bruvver Jim's Baby

And when they were gone, and sleep was coming to hover him softly in her wings, he held out both his little arms in a gesture of longing that seemed to embrace the three red caps and all this happier world he began to understand. "Somebody wants 'ittle Nu-thans," he sighed, and his tiny mouth was smiling when his eyes had closed.
Philip Verrill Mighels - Bruvver Jim's Baby
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