TAKING BABY TO SEE GRANDMA.
"John, are you sure you have the extra bottles?"' .■■'■'.- '.' ■' ' ■ • . • ; :.
" Yes, my dear. ' You have the can of milk all right? '•'-.' " Oh, yes. You didn't forget the extra wraps, did you?,". " No,' here -they are." "Nor the extra linen?"
"No, indeed. .You...have the bag with the toilet things, haven't you? " "Yes, dear. Oh! John, won't mother be pleased? You are "positive you have the bottles?" . , ," . .. , ■ "Yes, yes,1 my dear.* Also the wraps and linen." * ' v ' "And I: have the in ilk and toilet things.'
"Well, I guess we're.all here, then. And here's our train. Hasn't the little darling been good? She hasn't given you a bit of trouble, has she? " ' . "What! , Me?.- John, haven't you got her?" .-• :-a:,- ..'-.-
''Why, no. ' I thought " -'. - "Oh! Oh! Oh! How could you forget her? Oh! wy poor little baby. You unnatural father! 'And she's all alone in the house,'and I'm sure it's burned up by .this time! 'Oh! my baby, my baby, my baby!" "Here, Mary, get in here, quick. Cabby, drive like the devil home again."— Alex. Ricketts, in Harper's Bazar.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 11397, 14 April 1899, Page 8
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