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Rh almost in a slump. Now, just start this crowd moving. I know a bit about Youth.”

“That’s right,” said a big, husky patrolman. “If anybody living knows kids, it’s you, sir.”

So, as things got around to normal, His Honor, now sitting flat on City Park’s smooth lawn, said, jovially:—

“Hulloa.”

A big gulping sob in a tiny bosom—didn’t gulp; and a grin ran around a small mouth, as our young lady said:—

“So many big cops! O-o-o! I got afraid!”

“I know, darling; but no big cops will shout at you now. I don’t shout at tiny girls, do I?”

“No, sir; but if folks do shout, I go all woozy.”

“Woozy? Woozy? Ha, ha! I’ll look that up in a big book. But what’s all this fuss about? Is it about a baby?”

A vigorous nodding of a bunch of brown curls.

“What? Fussing about a baby? A baby is too small to fuss about.”

“O-o-o-o! It isn’t!!”

“No?”

“No, sir. I fuss about my dolly, an’ it’s not half so big as a baby.”