LET HIM HAVE IT.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2134, 13 March 1886, Page 2 (Supplement)

LET HIM HAVE IT.

(American paper) AMOSO the passengers on the St. Louu express, on the Erie railway, between Port Jervis and Jersey City, recently was a very much over-dressed woman, accompanied by a bright-looking Irish nursegirl, who had the charge of a telf-willed, tyrannical two-year-old boy, of whom the over-dressed woman was plainly the mother. The mother occupied a seat by herself. The nurse and child were in a seat immediately in front of her. The child gave such frequent exhibitions of temper, and kept the car filled with such vicious yells and shrieks, that there was a general feeling of savage indignation among the passengers. Although he time and again spat in his nurse's face, acratched her hands until the blood came, and tore at her hair and bonnet, she bore with him patiently. The indignation of the passengers was made the greater because the child's nother made no effort to correct or quiet bun, but, on the con trary, sharply eluded the nurse whenever •he manifested any firmness. Whatever the boy yelped for, the mother's cry was, uniformly— "Let him have it." By the time the train passed Turner's the feelings of the passengers had been wrought up to the boiling point. The remark was made audibly here and there that "it would be worth paying for to have the young one chucked out of the window." The hopeful's mother waa not moved by the very evident annoyance the passengers felt, and at last fixed herielf down in her seat for comfortable nap, The child had just slapped the nurse in the face for the hundredth time, and was preparing for a fresh attack, when a wasp came from somewhere in the car ■nd flew against the window at the nurse's seat. The boy at once made a dive for the wasp as it struggled upwards on the glass. The nurse quickly caught his hand, and said to him, coaxingly: " Harry musen't touch ! Bug will bite Harry !" Harry gave a savage yell, and began to kick and slap the nurse. The mother awoke from her nap. .She heard her son's screams, and, without lifting her head or opening her eyes ahe cried out sharply to the nurse : " Why will you tease that child so, Mary ? Let him have it at once. Mary let go of Harry. She settled back in her seat with an air of resignation, but there was a sparkle in her eye. The boy cluched at the wasp, and finally caught it. The yell that followed caused joy to the entire car, for every eye was on the hoy. The mother woke again. "Mary," she cried, "Let him have it! Mary turned calmly in her seat, and with a wicked twinkle in her eye said — " Sure, he's got it, mum ?" Tliis brought the car down. Every j one iv it^roarcd. The child's mother rose up in her seat with a jerk. When ahe j learned what was the matter she pulled her boy over the back of the seat and awoke some sympathy for him by warming him nicely. In ten minutes he was as quiet and meek as a lamb, and he never opened his mouth again until the train reached Jersey City.

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