The narrator, named his little brother Doodle when he was still 3 months old. The narrator named his little brother Doodle because w<span>hen he crawled, he crawled backward and it made him look like a doodlebug. And for him (the narrator), naming his little brother Doodle was the nicest thing he did for him. Hope this answer helps.</span>
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If the underlined phrase is <em>born in New York in 1856, </em>then that would be a participial phrase, which often functions as an adjective in a sentence, like is the case here.
Gerund is always used as a noun, and infinitive has the form <em>to + verb </em>(to go, to be...)
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Figurative Language - Metaphor - when he talks about the wheelbarrow being glazed with rain, he may be talking about old things being reinvigorated and being new again.
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