...After breakfast, he immediately demanded the jack-knife, and proceeded to manufacture the tooth-picks...
...Afterwards he betook himself to playing bat and ball with huge racket and uproar about the room, felicitating himself continually on the license of making what noise he pleased in the absence of the baby. He enjoys this freedom so greatly, that I do not mean to restrain him, wahtever noise he makes...
...After dinner...we walked down to the lake...Immediately after our return he called for the jack-knife, and now keeps pestering me to look at the feats he performs with it. Blessed be the man who invented jack-knives...
