BABY AMONG LEFT LUGGAGE,

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 2478, 14 August 1903, Page 6

BABY AMONG LEFT LUGGAGE,

They had an amusing experience recently at a Glasgow railway station. Aeonntrywoman wheeled a perambulator containing a promising atom of humanity into the cloakroom. " Ken 'er leave this 'ere ?" she asked, and thinking she referred to the vehicle alone, the clerk answered in the affirmative. "Aw mooch ?" " Fourpence," fie replied, and gave her the ticket. The clerk's attention was then distracted for a moment, bat a furious yell from the perambulator recalled him to the fact that baby and he were Ihe sole occupants of the cloak-room. With hair erect he darted out of the door, not wailing even to lock it, bat the crowded state of the platforms made it impossible for him to find the neglectful parent, and he was forced to return in terror to his post You should just have heard that baby er?; its lung capacity most hare been tremendous. The clerk was not of a prepossessing appearance at the bent of times, but he fairly eclipsed all previous reputation for ugliness as he distorted his visage in futile attempts to smile and make the baby laugh. Bat the baby was perverse, aod die more the clerk tried to am pee it the more terrified it became and the loader it screamed. What fine, healthy, well-developed screams they were, too! The shriek of a steam whistle was sweet music to it. A crowd of porters soon oatne in, attracted by the unusual noise, and proceeded to comfort the man (the baby refused to be comforted) by remarking that it was a well-devised scheme to get rid of it,and that the mother would never return. The clerk's blood ran cold as they informed him that henceforth and for evermore he would be a proud father (he was a bachelor). The mother at last returned to claim her offspring. Finding the child almost in convulsions, she roundly abused the man for what she called his " higgerance " in frightening her darling " popsy-wopsy " to death, and threatened to report him for " himperance " when he informed her that the company did not supply their stations with nursemaids!