`` Is your mug empty , Slightly darling ? '' `` Not quite empty , mummy , '' Slightly said , after looking into an imaginary mug . `` He has n't even begun to drink his milk , '' Nibs interposed . This was telling , and Slightly seized his chance . `` I complain of Nibs , '' he cried promptly . John , however , had held up his hand first . `` Well , John ? '' `` May I sit in Peter 's chair , as he is not here ? '' `` Sit in father 's chair , John ! '' Wendy was scandalised . `` Certainly not . '' `` He is not really our father , '' John answered . `` He did n't even know how a father does till I showed him . '' This was grumbling . `` We complain of John , '' cried the twins . Tootles held up his hand . He was so much the humblest of them , indeed he was the only humble one , that Wendy was specially gentle with him . `` I do n't suppose , '' Tootles said diffidently -LSB- bashfully or timidly -RSB- , `` that I could be father . '' `` No , Tootles . '' Once Tootles began , which was not very often , he had a silly way of going on .
`` As I ca n't be father , '' he XXXXX heavily , `` I do n't suppose , Michael , you would let me be baby ? ''
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