I require for chivalry.

“Several,” she report. “He are pronounced Alexander Applegate Leopold Bushel.”

“Bushel baskets have been filled with less,” I say punnishly. “That name surrounds him completely.”

“For shortness we call him Goo,” she say so. “Now I shall tell you his daily programme.” She take paper from table and read me following list of deeds intended for that Babyhood: 

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CONTENTS

5:30 to 6 A. M. crying exercises enjoyed for development of lung.

A. M.

6:15 sterilised milk programme with bottle.

7:30 Hon. Baby bathed in fluid offensive to mikrobes. Hon. Father then permitted to bring out scales and weigh Hon. Baby so to show he soon will be a Physical Perfection like Family.

8:10 A. M. ½ hour baby-talk conversation by his mother for development of brain.

A. M.

8:40 slight perambulation in baby-cab continuing 2 hours. This trip must go through considerable streets and scenery, so Hon. Baby will get used to travel.

10:40 homeward arrival. More crying exercises enjoyed for benefit of lung.

11:30 continual sleep programme until entirely saturated with slumber.

Afternoon—same like morning programme, only more so.

Hon. Mrs Bushel told me this with intense accuracy peculiar to statistics.

“You speak reverently about sterilised milk,” I pronounce. “How do you make this youthful beveridge?”

“This milk are best science for all baby,” she report. “You put him in clean kettle & boil him to scalding point—”

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