But I don't quite understand, father: is nobody your friend but the one that does something for you ?" "No, I won't say that, my boy.

You would have to leave out baby then." "Oh no, I shouldn't.

Baby can laugh in your face, and crow in your ears, and make you feel so happy.

Call you that nothing, father ?" The father's heart was fairly touched now.

He made no answer to this last appeal, and Diamond ended off with saying: "And there's the best of mine to come yet--and that's you, daddy--except it be mother, you know.