You will explain that the baby comes in just the same way so far as its infant body is concerned, growing like the kitten from a tiny cell--borne by the mother till all the organs are formed which it needs for its earthly life, when it also is born and laid in its mother's arms, to be nourished and cared for by the love of both father and mother, not for a few weeks, as with animals, but through long years of helplessness.

And you mean to tell me that the sacred truth would not endear you to your child far more than the usual cock-and-bull story about the doctor and the gooseberry-bush?
A friend of mine has three boys of widely opposite character and temperament.

Owing to circumstances, the eldest lad had to be sent to school at an early age.

Young as he was, she resolved to follow Dr.
Butler's advice and tell him the facts of birth in the way I have suggested.

On realizing the truth, the boy flung his arms round her neck and burst into tears.