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Hark at mother!" said the cousin called Annie. "Why, she's never set
eyes on him before!"
"I should 'ave known 'im anywhere," said Mrs. Larkins, "for Lizzie's
child. You've got her eyes! It's a Resemblance! And as for never
seeing 'im-- I've dandled him, Miss Imperence. I've dandled him."
"You couldn't dandle him now, Ma!" Miss Annie remarked with a shriek
of laughter.
All the sisters laughed at that. "The things you say, Annie!" said
Miriam, and for a time the room was full of mirth.
Mr. Polly felt it incumbent upon him to say something. "My dandling
days are over," he said.
The reception of this remark would have convinced a far more modest
character than Mr. Polly that it was extremely witty.
Mr. Polly followed it up by another one almost equally good. "My turn
to dandle," he said, with a sly look at his aunt, and convulsed
everyone.
"Not me," said Mrs. Larkins, taking his point, "thank you," and
achieved a climax.
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