Little Martie Malone (Beany's nephew)

Little Martie
Elizabeth and Don had a son, Martie, named for Elizabeth's father Martie. Little Martie's birth is eventfully described in "Welcome Stranger."

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"Little Martie's hair was three shades lighter than his mother's, and curled about his face like an angel's on a Christmas card. Ever so often the Malone family would gird themselves to get those curls cut off. After all, they didn't want to make a sissy out of him! Once Johnny had even got him as far as Charlie's barber shop on the boulevard. But Johnny brought him back, his fair fluff of curls intact. 'Charlie, himself, wasn't there,' Johnny excused. 'And little Martie and I didn't vibrate to those slap-dash helpers.' "

"It was always surprising that anyone with as beatific an expression as Little Martie's could get in as much trouble as he did. It was always surprising, too, when little Martie spoke. He didn t talk a baby-talk jumble, but with a slow, feeling-his-way accuracy. 'I...like...these,' he said slowly, reproachfully, when Beany pried the demolished roses out of his fingers."