Once a Week

Publisher Marketing: "In less refined circles than ours," I said to Myra, "your behaviour would be described as swank. Really, to judge from the airs you put on, you might be the child's mother." "He's jealous because he's not an aunt himself. Isn't he, ducksey darling?" "I do wish you wouldn't keep dragging the baby into the conversation; we can make it go quite well as a duologue. As to being jealous-why, it's absurd. True, I'm not an aunt, but in a very short time I shall be an uncle by marriage, which sounds to me much superior. That is," I added, "if you're still equal to it." Myra blew me a kiss over the cradle. "Another thing you've forgotten," I went on, "is that I'm down for a place as a godfather. Archie tells me that it isn't settled yet, but that there's a good deal of talk about it in the clubs. Who's the other going to be? Not Thomas, I suppose? That would be making the thing rather a farce." "Hasn't Dahlia broken it to you?" said Myra anxiously. "Simpson?" I asked, in an awed whisper. Myra nodded. "And, of course, Thomas," she said. "Heavens! Not three of us? What a jolly crowd we shall be. Thomas can play our best ball. We might--" "But of course there are only going to be two godfathers," she said, and leant over the cradle again. Contributor Bio:  Milne, A A A. A. Milne was an English novelist and playwright born in 1882. A student of H. G. Wells during public school, Milne went on to study mathematics in Cambridge. During his time there, Milne frequently contributed to the college's student magazine, Granta, and was so successful that he was offered a job at the British humour magazine Punch. Milne's son, Christopher Robin, was born in 1920. After writing a poem for him entitled "Teddy Bear," Milne began publishing children's stories about Christopher Robin and his stuffed animals, including his bear, Winnie-the-Pooh. Milne's children's books, Winnie-the-Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner, have since become beloved classics that have been adapted into the famous Disney franchise. Milne died in 1956 at the age of 74.