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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 19, 23 January 1937, Page 20

JONATHAN WINS (Original, by "Billie Dove," 13, Wellington.) RMYNTRUDE CONSTANCE' ARABELLE HENRIETTA BROWN heaved a sigh as long as her name. And who wouldn't sigh with such a name? But for once Eca (as she was called, that being the initial letters of her first three names) was not sighing over her name. You see, Eca had just turned eleven, and her mother had just presented her with a baby sister, and Eca did not quite know what to do. For she had been an "only" until the arrival of Master Jonathan, and her tip-tilted nose was, metaphorically speaking, put slightly out of joint. So she sighed again, and rested her chin in her hand. "Urn." she said thoughtfully. A head appeared over the fence; a red head it was. "Coming out to play?" said a cheery voice. Eca looked up sternly. > "Sshsh!" she warned. "I'm busy." Redhead's eyes nearly popped out of her head. "Ooh!" she cried. "Eca Brown, you do tell whoppers. Why you're sitting in your back-yard doing ab-so-lute-ly nothing." Eca regarded her friend loftily. "I am busy ment-ment-mentalitily," Eca managed to get out. Redhead disappeared without uttering another word. Eca had vanquished her friend by one word. She resumed her thinking. "Now, I wonder. He seems a queer little thing. And he is awfully ugly. And he does nothing but sleep and eat and cry," she reflected. A baby's wailing startled her. Eca shuddered. "That settles it. I don't like him. And I don't think it's fair. There's Mum picking him up just because he's crying, and if I cry I'm spanked and put to bed," she scowled. As can be clearly seen, Eca was badly suffering from an attack of acui* jealousy. Redhead appeared again. "Listen to the howler!'' she jeered. Eca, though she had been thinking exactly the same thing herself, v*s immediately up in arms about it. "Jane Smith! How dare you!" she stormed. "My brother isn't a howler. He is perfectly beautiful," she hotly defended. "And it's every baby's privilege to cry. So there! And I bet you cried something frightful when you were young. And everybody says that Jonathan is a comp-comp-comparatively good baby!" And with that Eca whirled round and stormed indoors. There was 'Mrs, Brown holding the screaming baby. . "Here, Ermyntrude, you take him," and without further ado he was unceremoniously bundled into Eca's arms. He immediately ceased his crying. Eca grinned in triumph. " 1 "You see," she said proudly, "I can make him stop crying." So proud of herself she was that she walked outside again and madt friends with Jane. The world was at peace once more.

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