"Now, look here, Missus," said the girl decidedly. "If I wasn’t sure, you might just jolly well know I wouldn’t have him up, even to let you see him—he’d be in bed with a hot bottle, an’ a jolly good go of med’cine.  But you’d never think he’d had a duckin’ at all.  Bless you, what’s an extra duckin’ to a boy?  Our kids is in an’ out of the lake all day long."