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"Junior!"

"Huh?"

"Didn't you hear the gentleman?"

"Ah-huh."

"Well, then, answer him."

"Enswer him w-h-a-t?"

"I said how do you do, sir?"

"I got the pink eye."

"So I see. Well, well, that's too bad! Now I wonder if I have anything here that's good for pink eye. Well! Now I wonder what this can be?"

"Lemme see!"

"Junior!"

"It's chawclut!"

"Junior!"

"W-h-a-t?"

"What what? What mamma. Say thank you to the gentleman."

"That's a great little fellow you have there!"

"I'll show you upstairs now."

"Really, Mr. Harrison—there's no use wasting any more time——"

"No trouble at all, Mrs. Green. A great little fellow! I always enjoy being with the kiddies. My mother—she has a delicious sense of humor—bathroom—always says with a twinkle in her eye that it's because I'm nothing but a kid myself. You know we're never grown up to our mothers. And mother and I have always been great pals——"