Indiana State sentinel., 1845-04-03
INDIANA STATE SENTINEL.
Paternity.

Some one went into " fits and dem'd raptures, as
Mantani would have 1t, last month, IN the hRtcker-
booker, about baby, boy-baby, fifteen pound boy
baby being born to him! Does he know that he IS a
grecn-horn! Does he know that be yet knows no.
thing A fifteen pound - is whopPer to be
sure a :" fine child" and it may have Its I" fathers
nose" and all that but repeat 1t, he knows
thing, he has never had tlciHS twins-ye gods
pair of 'em naked, little, rosy, bawling busters
In rests cEbiculariS! If he had, he might talk. If
he'd ever had afterwards, twelve women hauling him
about aud telling him he the luckiest man IN the
world passing the swaddled about from hand to
hand, with kisses ringing like pistol shots the heee
lcee-e-e-e of the cherubs, mama, F" dong wen,
lying in lavender with fried cap on, smiling like
soul in bliss and insisting having EN- both back,
for she " knows they want her" If he'd ever had
big he fists slapped his shoulders, wicked fingers
punched into hrs ribs his health drank with hurrahs,
while merry voices have declared that he ought to
be ashamed of himself;'-gong home, then, his
heart dancing, his head singing feathers to has heels
make bat two steps from curbsone to curbstone, his
latch key ready six squares of,-insde, sprnglng up
stairs, bos IN his hand, story at time we say,
if going home So and opening the chamber door, as
fan to glide In through the keyhoe he had ever been
stopped by the nurses hush and, directed by her
finger to the bed, had contemplated-what We gods
Heaven, peace, contentment, love, ecstacy-too big
for speech too full not TO over; tears yes, CRATE
ful, heart-swelling hope-crowning, Joyous tearsl
Fast asleep all think of saying " al ~ calm, lovely
sleep, rose and two buds bosoms heavlng; har-
mony of sighs Eolian whispers stirring with melody
every heavensrung chord in the bosom of the happl
est dog alive Had he, too excited to go to his
lone bed IN the next room, lain down IN his uowsers
gazed towards the shading curtains listened to the
little nestlngs, the fussy kickings-the-l We again
and again say it, he's green-horn young un'-he
knows nothing. Furthermore, there is an ecstacy to
he has mt dreamt of, fifteen Dound boy-baby Is
well enough. lis . wheels and i, puleys, Its pumps
and its Valves its engines and reservoirs Its beaut
ful machinery, &C., all well enough, but wait till it
speaks wait till it says cow - that's the phrenzy
wait till convinced by its blessed mothers incesSant
instructions at the window, that COW, g moody
cow, is the most interesting object In nature; it
dances in its daddy arms points with its little finger
to pig In the gutter, and says Cow W =" whole
room full of admring friends and neghbors ready to
devour it-not the pig, but the little DEAR g so for
ward
Hark band of music-lOuder - a company of
soldiers in the street, and company rise, up
90 the windows, In rush the children-drum and
trumpet-every head out-c0ming round the corner
shadows before - of little boys with paper
caps and clam shell-H0Oray O.! there's the captain
epaulets and feather-walking backward-sword ex-
tended-word of command Left wheel - at same
instant-leel in hOle-down goes caPtain-scream of
delight--line breaks, and cOw-c0w," cries the
blessed child half crazyl
But it has ''stood alone before this, had s'tooth'
before that and been very large for It's age" before
either, and having lived through the whole and being
proud OF our experience, tell the Knickerbocker
man again and again. that he knows nothing that he
makes himself ridiculous, that he's bigger boy than
his fifteen FOUNDER" go So and every parent
who has reared Z" fine child to cut teeth and say
''cow, willagree with u.s. At the same time, as some
excuse it's first - a farther excuse, he showed
some sense in getting married and as perhaps total
excuse, he really has managed to become a father
and, advise young friends, IN each respect to
emulate his example.-St. Louis Reueiae.