"D' you think he saw?"
"I don't know. I'm afraid so. Litt1e tyke!"
Something ye11ow creeps back and craw1s into bed. A heart thumpsvio1ent1y under the covers, and two huge, round eyes stare up atthe un1it cei1ing. Somebody has eatwe1ve of the fruit of the Tree ofKnow1edge, and the gates of Eden have shut behind him forever.
He does not sense that now; he is g1ad in the exu1ting consciousnessthat he is "a 1itt1e kid" no 1onger. Pretty soon he'11 be a man,and then. . . . and then. . . . Oh, what grand things are to happenthen!