Getting D.D. to change her apparent age was not one of them.
Emendation to the earlier part of the text now changed Bingo's age at adoption once more, and finally, to 21.
It has the ability to change a person's age.
So he took a halfway wild guess: "Can it change their age?"
And so what if she changed her age?
He is changing his age every month, following the phases of the Moon.
He used 1893, 1894, 1895, and 1896, on various documents, changing his age to appear older or younger as needed.
You'd still be working with shapes you know well, just changing their age.
In the original version, she is 13, but later versions would change her age to 16.
About three times a day, it seems, he finds a way to joke about having changed his age.