November 9, 2001 - Friday
Jeremy had the hiccups this morning, and that's nothing at all uncommon. Harry, though, was sitting right there and acknowledged his mother's assessment of Jeremy's condition. But, more than just agreeing that his brother was having these common spasms, Harry made a literary reference that expanded on the mere fact of hiccups. He cited Leonard the Lion, of the book How to Scare a Lion (a story of a lion with the hiccups and how his lion tamer ties to scare them out of him), and, I believe, made a fleeting reference to scaring Jeremy to get rid of the hiccups. Harry's such a well read boy!


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