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OUR YEAR-OLD Kingsley had heard at Sunday-school the story of the creation. The head of a favorite doll having come off, he found he could make it stay, at least for a time, by planting it firmly on the shoulders. From this he drew his own theological deductions, and hastening to his mother with his discovery, he exhibited his trick, with the comment, "See, mamma, I'm God."