BABIES-BY ONE OF THE DADDIES.

Marlborough Express, Volume XVI, Issue 176, 30 July 1881, Page 2

BABIES- BY ONE OF THE DADDIES.

If there is one lnunan being more important than another, it is a baby— at least that it is m our family. When there's a baby on hand, I am nowhere. Moralists may talk of heads of families and lords ot creation, and all sorts of folks, but Maria Jane can take the snarls out of all their philosophy, ton whole families bottom side up, and put their heads where the tail ought to be. You, six 1 , maybe a young man, and not pestered on the way of babies. But when you roll up 20 years of sleepiug on the outside bedroll, because the baby must have room ; when you've

got up 1,000 nights and broken your shins an equal number of tunes, over rocking chairs and other chairs, and when the lamp was lighted, have carried the baby until he got over a fit of \ colic, and that m the cold (for a right sharp backneverhascolic except on cold nights) ; until you can rise m the dead of night and pour out 8| drops of paregoric and keep dreaming all the time ; when you can make a dose of catnip tea on a cold stove and a w&rm cloth on your shivering body ; when yon can humbly submit to have everybody <*ay of the crossest baby you ever saw : " Ain't he just like his daddy ?" When you have bought flannels and '• domestics " enough to stock a young store, just for one little mortal ; when by practice, you can beat a quarter horse running for the doctor ; when you can give up all the soft words and soft pillows to the baby, and can make a meal out of stale bread and cold coffee — then after all this, and more, you may begin to realize the importance of a— baby.