"You bet," said Jackie. And he stood on his tippy toes to look bigger.
"And I'd like Sweetclover to be a mother," says Peggs, "and have hundreds and hundreds of children so she could give them all the dolls that ever they wanted."
"That would be noble," said Jackie.
"It's terrible for children to have no father or mother isn't it?" asked Peggs looking far off at nothing in the sky.
"Yes," said Jackie.
"I would rather have a mother and father than everything else in the world," says Peggs.
"Better'n little Sweetclover?" asked Jackie.
"Yes," answered Peggs, "for I could make another doll, but you can only have one mother and one father."
"Maybe you're right," said Jackie, "but I love Kernel Cob very much, just the same."
"Of course!" says Peggs.