For instance now, at school, in the course of his astronomy lesson, the teacher happened to ask:
"What supports the sun in the heavens?"
"Why, its beams, of course," was the prompt answer given by the flower of the family.
He was not encouraged to exercise the propensity further.
But it is not always the boys who can be depended on to furnish material for a good story.
I knew a little tot of a girl once, Helen they called her, the pride and joy of a young couple with whom I used to dine occasionally in my happy bachelor days.
I discovered, however, one night, that the little lady was very much afraid of the dark, just as some of her older sisters are prone to be, and all her mother's persuasive eloquence was required to induce the child to leave the brilliantly lighted dining room for her own dark bedroom.
A whispered colloquy between mother and child finally resulted in the little one's departure to her room without further protest.