WHOM THE BABY WAS LIKE.
It was a Boston baby, and the proud mother and father were listening delightedly to the praises of their old friend. ‘Now, who does he look like?’ remarked the visitor, meditatively; ‘it’s strange, but the resemblance is singularly striking, anil yet I cannot place it distinctly.’ Both the parents began to be visibly uneasy. ‘ Yes, certainly,’ exclaimed the judge, with enthusiasm, after a pause, ‘ I knew it, my dears. Why, the child is an exact picture of the bust of Socrates in the (Jreek Library.’ And the smile on ‘.the two anxious faces was so bright that the roosters for half a mile round thought it was daylight and began to crow.
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume VI, Issue 36, 6 September 1890, Page 20
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117WHOM THE BABY WAS LIKE. New Zealand Graphic, Volume VI, Issue 36, 6 September 1890, Page 20
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