A DOMESTIC UPROAR.

Golden Bay Argus, Volume XIII, Issue 1, 2 June 1910, Page 3

A DOMESTIC UPROAR.

There is a young man in the city who has a baby of which he is very fond. The other morning he begged it from the nurse, a,nd took the youngster into his room. : Sitting before his big desk, which is one of the kind in which you pull down a revolving wooden shutter when you want to close it, lie rattled the pens and paperweights for the baby’s amusement until there came a sharp ring at the front door beLl. Hastily laying the baby on the desk he slammed down the shutter and rushed to the door. It was a friend woo wanted to see him on business, and he put on hi? hat and walked out with him, forgetting all about the baby in the desk. When the nurse came to fetch it she could not find it. The young man’s hat arid eo.it were gone, and she feared he had taken the baby out into the cold with him. The house was in a tumult. When he returned half an hour later without the baby, he was mot by the nurse, who demanded its whereabouts. The young man scratched his head for a moment, then he turned pale, rfished to the desk, hastily unlocked it, and threw up the shutter. There Iky the baby, slumbering peacefully among the ink bottles, pens, and paper-weights. But the young man doesn’t get tlie baby any more unless they tie i 8 with a string round his finger,