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grinning like an ape; he would smile, then get red, then grin a grin or two - like a youngster who had just been spanked upon the board conveniently concealed beneath the seat of his pants. He threw his hat down, sat down, got nervous, grinned and then burst out: It's a boy!! Well, of course, the ellipsis was easily understood and I didn't ask him "what was a boy" but congratulated him upon his recent entrance into fatherhood. Then he got serious, "I tell you he said, you never know what home is until you become a father": I told him that I had never had ecstasy, and confessed that he had me there. He look surprised and grinned again. He told me what prospects the little stranger had,