"A little more and he won't pay any attention to anything you tell him.

I'd carry out that sunbonnet bluff, anyway, if I were you." "Now, Daddy Chip! I 'splained to you how I lost my hat," reproached the Kid, clinging fast to the Little Doctor's hand.
"Yes--and you 'splained that you'd have gone into that deep hole and drowned--with nobody there to pull you out--if you hadn't been scared of a water snake," Chip pointed out relentlessly.
"I wasn't 'zactly scared," amended the Kid gravely.

"He was havin' such a good time, and he was swimmin' around so--comf'table--and it wasn't polite to 'sturb him.

Can't I have Silver ?" "We'll go down and ask Silver what he thinks about it," said the Little Doctor, anxious to make peace between her two idols.

"And we'll see if Daddy Chip can get the hat.