Demi felt his back, as if expecting to find it... 515 [Feb. 11th, 2010|03:55 am] Demi felt his back, as if expecting to find it like that of the watch, and then gravely remarked, "I dess Dod does it when I's asleep A careful explanation followed, to which he listened so attentively that his anxious grandmother said, "My dear, do you think it wise to talk about such things to that baby? He's getting great bumps over his eyes, and learning to ask the most unanswerable questions "If he is old enough to ask the question he is old enough to receive true answersI am not putting the thoughts into his head, but helping him unfold those already thereThese children are wiser than we are, and I have no doubt the boy understands every word I have said to himNow, Demi, tell me where you keep your mind If the boy had replied like Alcibiades, "By the gods, Socrates, I cannot tell," his grandfather would not have been surprised, but when, after standing a moment on one leg, like a meditative youngstork, he answered, in a tone of calm conviction, "In my little belly," the old gentleman could only join in Grandma's laugh, and dismiss the class in metaphysics There might have been cause for maternal anxiety, if Demi had not given convincing proofs that he was a true boy, as well as a budding philosopher, for often, after a discussion which caused Hannah to prophesy, with ominous nods, "That child link post comment

Demi felt his back, as if expecting to find it... 515 [Feb. 11th, 2010|03:55 am] Demi felt his back, as if expecting to find it like that of the watch, and then gravely remarked, "I dess Dod does it when I's asleep A careful explanation followed, to which he listened so attentively that his anxious grandmother said, "My dear, do you think it wise to talk about such things to that baby? He's getting great bumps over his eyes, and learning to ask the most unanswerable questions "If he is old enough to ask the question he is old enough to receive true answersI am not putting the thoughts into his head, but helping him unfold those already thereThese children are wiser than we are, and I have no doubt the boy understands every word I have said to himNow, Demi, tell me where you keep your mind If the boy had replied like Alcibiades, "By the gods, Socrates, I cannot tell," his grandfather would not have been surprised, but when, after standing a moment on one leg, like a meditative youngstork, he answered, in a tone of calm conviction, "In my little belly," the old gentleman could only join in Grandma's laugh, and dismiss the class in metaphysics There might have been cause for maternal anxiety, if Demi had not given convincing proofs that he was a true boy, as well as a budding philosopher, for often, after a discussion which caused Hannah to prophesy, with ominous nods, "That child link post comment