He is so delighted over the fact that we have given his name to our small lad . It seems he has no other namesake . '' `` Well , James Matthew is a name that will wear well and not fade in the washing , '' said Miss Cornelia . `` I 'm glad you did n't load him down with some highfalutin , romantic name that he 'd be ashamed of when he gets to be a grandfather . Mrs. William Drew at the Glen has called her baby Bertie Shakespeare . Quite a combination , is n't it ? And I 'm glad you have n't had much trouble picking on a name . Some folks have an awful time . When the Stanley Flaggs ' first boy was born there was so much rivalry as to who the child should be named for that the poor little soul had to go for two years without a name . Then a brother came along and there it was -- ` Big Baby ' and ` Little Baby . ' Finally they called Big Baby Peter and Little Baby Isaac , after the two grandfathers , and had them both christened together . And each tried to see if it could n't howl the other down . You know that Highland Scotch family of MacNabs back of the Glen ? They 've got twelve boys and the oldest and the youngest are both called Neil -- Big Neil and Little Neil in the same family . Well , I s ` pose they ran out of names . '' `` I have read somewhere , '' laughed Anne , `` that the first child is a poem but the tenth is very prosy prose . Perhaps Mrs. MacNab thought that the twelfth was merely an old tale re-told . '' `` Well , there 's something to be said for large families , '' said Miss Cornelia , with a sigh . `` I was an only child for eight years and I did long for a brother and sister . Mother told me to pray for one -- and pray I did , believe ME .
Well , one day Aunt Nellie came to me and said , ` Cornelia , there is a little brother for you upstairs XXXXX your ma 's room .
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