Alan Alexander Milne

“ Phil thought that if he was put in a pond and made to swim, he would be much stronger. And perfecter.
So Jessica brushed and brushed and brushed his hair every day; and every day Phil tried to get hold of him so as to strengthen him. But Mrs. Banks kept him on the chest of drawers, so that Jessica could brush his hair and Phil couldn't quite reach him, and she thought to herself, "I believe he will win the prize after all." And every day when Mr. Banks came home from golf, she looked at him to see if he had won a silver cup ”

“ So the baby was called Phil for short. And then, later on, there was a third child, and as Mr. Banks couldn't very well call him Theophilus, too, he decided to keep as much of the name in the family as was possible. So the Baby was called Theodore, or Toddy for short.
Mr. Banks played golf. He was a very active man, and he played more golf in an afternoon than anybody else at his club. Sometimes the friends he was playing with would stop for tea after hitting the ball only seventy-five times, but Mr. Banks would never stop until he had hit it a hundred and twenty times. ”