He smiled -- for the very first time . He is four months old and he has never smiled once before . Not even mother or Susan have been able to coax that thing to smile , try as they would . And here he was smiling because Irene Howard bounced him ! Talk of gratitude ! `` I admit that smile made a big difference in him . Two of the dearest dimples came out in his cheeks and his big brown eyes seemed full of laughter . The way Irene raved over those dimples was silly , I consider . You would have supposed she thought she had really brought them into existence . But I sewed steadily and did not enthuse , and soon Irene got tired of bouncing Jims and put him back in his cradle . He did not like that after being played with , and he began to cry and was fussy the rest of the afternoon , whereas if Irene had only left him alone he would not have been a bit of trouble . `` Irene looked at him and said , ` Does he often cry like that ? ' as if she had never heard a baby crying before . `` I explained patiently that children have to cry so many minutes per day in order to expand their lungs . Morgan says so . '' ` If Jims did n't cry at all I 'd have to make him cry for at least twenty minutes , ' I said . '' ` Oh , indeed ! ' said Irene , laughing as if she did n't believe me . ` Morgan on the Care of Infants ' was upstairs or I would soon have convinced her . Then she said Jims did n't have much hair -- she had never seen a four months ' old baby so bald .
`` Of course , I knew Jims had n't much hair -- yet ; but Irene said it in a tone XXXXX seemed to imply it was my fault that he had n't any hair .
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