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• ‟ My mother would thump me sharply on the head with a thimble or a spoon if I became too noisy with the whistle when I was playing I was a steamboat captain. She had no sense of the dignity of command.

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• ‟ My father made with me one serious mistake which I see parents about me making. He got himself somehow into the awkward position of an authority; I thought he knew and was right on everything - for a while.

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• ‟ My father would invite me sweetly to come and sit on a stool at his feet, and, as I let myself trustingly down, he would gently kick the seat from under me - and laugh.

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• ‟ My father, the practical joker, did not care for practical jokes on himself; he did not encourage the practice in me.

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• ‟ I let my boy go and do and say pretty much as he likes, as, and perhaps because, my father kept no string on me.

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• ‟ My father required me to honor my father and my mother too much to put up games on them. I did on occasion.

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