When Daddy Phoned!

Master John was the idol of his daddy's heart. Everything that Master John did was perfectly all right to Daddy.
Mamma would sometimes tell Daddy at nighttime about some of the mischief Master John had been up to during the day. But Daddy would say, without the least sympathy for Mamma, "poor little dear, he had to amuse himself somehow, didn't he?"
Even when Master John had wiped his coal-black fingers over Mamma's newly washed clothes, all that Daddy said was, "Ah, but he's a bright boy; he mush have known those clothes were clean, or he wouldn't have done it."  But one day Daddy had a little experience with Master John himself.
He was in the city and in a terrible hurry to get an important document which he thought he had left at home. In a frenzy of anxiety lest he might have lost it on the train, he rushed to the nearest telephone and tried to call Mamma. And this is what happened next:

"Is that Henford 4242?"
"Yaaaaaaaa."
"I say, is that Henford 4242?"
"Heeeeeeee."
"There's something wrong with the phone. Is that you Jennie?
"Dad-dad-dad-dad-dad."
"What is the matter? I want that document I left on the hall table this morning."
"Goo-goo-goo-goo-goo."
"Can't you understand what I say? I've lost that document. At least I heaven't got it. Is it at home? Can't you hear me? Is that Henford 4242?"
"Dad-dad-dad-dad-dad."

Daddy hung up with a scowl of impatience. When he reached home that night he asked for an explanation. He could not afford to waste good money on telephone calls, he said. And when he did call, why did not someone answer him in an intelligent way! Whoever dared to say all that gibberish when he was anxiously awaiting news of an important document? And so on.
Mamma waited until it was all over. Then she burst in to peals or laughter.
"I came in just as you hung up," she said at least, "and what did i find but Master John trying to talk into the phone with the earpiece held up as if he used it for years."
"Well!" exclaimed Daddy. "So to it was Master John, was it?  A remarkable bot, my dear. I always did say he was a most intelligent child. I must go up and kiss him for that right now, even if he is asleep."
"Well, of all things! said Mamma, as Daddy bounded eagerly upstairs.  ;)