Did it mean so much to him? Would other children like the stories?
"Bobby," I said, "truly, I will try to write them. After Christmas I
will begin."
So after the holidays were over and the older boys had gone back to
college, the writing was commenced.
"Will they do?" said I to Bobby when he had heard the last story read.
"Do you think a publisher will like them?"
"The children will like them," he replied.
So that is how Prince and Rover happened to be written.