“Instead of not being interested in it, Kay [her husband] liked it very much. ‘Isn’t it a game little thing?’ he asked admiringly. ‘If you really want a baby so young, I hope you’ll have this one.’”

”That settled it. We told the creature it was coming to us, and it grinned with the tears from coughing still in its eyes, as if it understood every word we were saying.”

Malachi Whitaker And So Did I (1939) p27