Bloomington herald. [volume] (Bloomington, I. T. [Iowa]) 1840-1849, 1844-06-28
From the st. Louis Reveille.
PATERNITY.

Some one went into fits and dem
raptures.' as Mantalini would have 1t, last
month, in the Knickerbocker, about ba-
by. boy baby, fifteen pound-boy baby
being born to him /! Does he know that
he is green horn? Does he know that
he ye. knows nothing! A fifteen pound.
is whopper' to be sure, a fine child,
and 1t NAV have its fathers nose and all
that; but, we repeat it, he knows nothing.
he has never had twins twins-ye gods!
pair of 'em naked, little, rosy, bawlIng
busters! In vests cubicularls II ne
had, he might talk. If he'd ever had, at
forwards. twelve women hauling him "a
bout, and telling him he was the lucklest
man in the world, passing the swaddled
ones about from hand to hand, with KISS
es ringing like pistol shots; the hee-e-e-e
wee>e>e of tine cherubs, mama doing
WE'LL lying in lavender with frilled cap
on, smiling like soul in bliss, and in
sisting on having 'em both back, for she
knows they want her. lfhe'd ever had
big HE fists slapped on his shoulders,
wicked fingers punched into his ribs, his
! health drank with hurrah's,' while mer-
ry voices have declared that he ought to
be ashamed of himself; going home,
then, his heart dancing, his head singing,
feathers to his heels, making but two steps
from curb stone to euro stone, his latch
key ready six squares of,-inside, spring
ing up stairs, boots in his hand, story
a. time; we say, if going home so, and
opening the chamber door, as fain to glide
in through the key-hole, he had e. er been
stopped by the nurses 'hush,' and, dl-
recled by her finger to the bed, had con-
templated wha.? we gods Heaven,
peace, conten,ment, love, ecstacy-'oo big
for speech, too full not to run over /; tears!
yes, grateful heart,swelling, hope crown
ing, Joyous tears Fast asleep, all think
of saying all - calm, lovely sleep +;
rose and two buds; bosoms heaving,
harmony of signs, Eolian whispers stir
ring with melody every heaven-strung
chord in the bosom of the happiest dog
alive! Had he ever, too excited to go to
his lone bed in the next room, laid down
in his trousers, gazed towards the shad-
ing curtains, listened 10 the little nest
lngs, the fussy kickipgs the-,he -?
We again and again say it, he's green
horn, young 'un-he knows nothing
Furthermore, there is an ecstacy to come
he hasn't dreamt of ifteen-pound boy
baby is well enough, it's wheels and its
pulleys, its pumps and its valves, it's en-
gines and reservoirs, its beautiful ma
chinery,' &C., all we'll enough. but wait
till it speaks; wait till it says Cow ,
that's the phrenzy wait until convinced
by its blessed mothers incessant instruc.
tons, at the window, that COW, moo
ly cow is the most Interesting object IN
nature it dances in it's daddy, arms,
points with its little finger 10 a pig in the
gutter, and says cow-w!' whole room
full of admiring friends and neighbors
ready to devour it-not the pig, but the
little dear, so forward =
Hark band of music--louder-a
company of soldiers i'll the next street;
ma and company rise, up go the windows,
in rush the chidren--drum and trumpet
every head out-coming round corner
shadows before'-a swarm of litle boys
with paper caps and clam shells-Hoo-
ray! there's the epaulets and
feather-w walking backward-sword ex>
tended-word of command-'Left wheeIr
at same instant-heel in hole down goes
captain-scream of delight-line breaks,
and cow-cow,' cries the blessed child,
half crazy!
Blu, it has STOOD alone before this,
and had : a TOOTH BEFORE that, and been
very large for it's age before either; and
having lived through the whole, and be-
ing proud of our experience, we tell the
Knickcrbocker man again and again, that
he knows nothing, that he makes himself
ridiculous, that he's a bigger boy than
his fifteen FOUNDER to 60 on so, and ev.
cry parent who has reared "a fine child
TO cut teeth and say 'cow,' will agree
with us. At the same time, as some ex
cuse, it's first > as further excuse,
he showed some sense in getting married;
and as, perhaps, total excuse, he really
has managed to become a father; and,
we advise our young friends, in each re-
spect, TO emulate his example.
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