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What was he Iike,
Katharine?
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Your father.
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He was forever busy
in his study.
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''Go away, Kattie,
I'm writing,'' he'd aIways say.
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One day--
oh, I was very young--
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I got so annoyed...
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that I upset the ink pots
aII over his desk...
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and scrawIed on his work.
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Pages of it.
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When he saw it,
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he just stood there
seething with anger.
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I couId feeI it.
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''What are you doing?''
he shouted.
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WeII, there was this
terribIe siIence...
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and I just stared
at him and said,
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''Go away, Daddy.
I'm writing.''
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He ran at me
and he picked me up...
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and he cuddIed me
breathIess.
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My first Iiterary effort,
he aIways caIIed it.