There was no longer any doubt in anybody 's mind that Jims was getting positively pretty . His little cheeks were round and firm and faintly pink , his eyes were big and bright , his tiny paws had dimples at the root of every finger . He had even begun to grow hair , much to Rilla 's unspoken relief . There was a pale golden fuzz all over his head that was distinctly visible in some lights . He was a good infant , generally sleeping and digesting as Morgan decreed . Occasionally he smiled but he had never laughed , in spite of all efforts to make him . This worried Rilla also , because Morgan said that babies usually laughed aloud from the third to the fifth month . Jims was five months and had no notion of laughing . Why had n't he ? Was n't he normal ? One night Rilla came home late from a recruiting meeting at the Glen where she had been giving patriotic recitations . Rilla had never been willing to recite in public before . She was afraid of her tendency to lisp , which had a habit of reviving if she were doing anything that made her nervous . When she had first been asked to recite at the Upper Glen meeting she had refused . Then she began to worry over her refusal . Was it cowardly ? What would Jem think if he knew ? After two days of worry Rilla phoned to the president of the Patriotic Society that she would recite . She did , and lisped several times , and lay awake most of the night in an agony of wounded vanity . Then two nights after she recited again at Harbour Head .
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