Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1853-10-06
M Is G. E LII A N ECU S
THE FIRST CRADLE.

Going through the Park this morning
contemplating those IitlIe green triangular
lobes in the lungs Of this great Babel, we
me, young man neatly and plainly clad,
carrying beneath one arm cladle-a vic
ker Cradle; jus, such Cradle as makes
one think Of Ii'tle chicken in basket, a
! litlle jewel in cotton wood, or litlle bsby {;
or something else lille and precious.
| His sickened step, and sort Of semi-ela-
tion seml-sheepishness in his looks, told a
story for him. he wouldn't have whispered
| for twenty dollars a month ''and found.''-
| Tha, brand new cradle for brand new
tenant; he didn'. care who knew that and
ne was the father of it-nor lha, either, and
his wife was the mother of it; better than
all. Bul then ii vas his first baby s.our''
frs, baby. That he GiLn't care SO much
abou, The peoples knowing. He would
little rather they should lhink he was used
to it; that the Old cradle was worn out, or
the other babies tossed in ':babv Jumper"
or any ming but The precise truth, no mat
ter " hat.
Innoccnt soul He liule dreamed bis Sc
crel was oct, ':plan as pike-saffs," legibe
as good cid Saxon, 10 every body, that met
him and thought about it.
On he rc.zi, al.d >llls.. 81 hi:,, I.oIa-2-
in thought for the best reason in life-we
couldn't help i! !-Anh there was the baby,
sure enough, done up in dimity the hiest,
trimmed with lace edging the dainiesl; lll-
lie bits Of pink shoes on its liule bits of
pink feet; its eyes all ahoa, with the u
won,ed light, sin fine phrenzy rolling "a
Il H. oI1 4 - /,
how fat, end such head Of hair! To be
sure, its nose is the least curve in the world
pugg~h-Iell il 10 them if you are tired Of
life. 70 be sure its voice is by no means
he soilest-hin. it if you are shrived.-
But then, il'S baby, in fact the baby, and
swell spring of pleasure it is indeed.'
And there's The mother, ust pale enough
TO looked "interes,ng," aud that ask-no-
more smile would heau1ify face coIored
f'om the tents Of Kedar but. then she ism,
homely ; she's handsome; young mothers
are always handsome-they can't help it.
And then II acas To be girI-of course
i. was, and they had fixed upon name to
hail II by, the moment it made its debut in
! to bres,hdom. Many was the playful alter
! cation they had about that same name
She declared 1t should be called Polly, af-
ter lis grandmother; and he, that no name
was so beautiful as Lucy-his wie's name,
by The by-bu, she conquered of course,
and one pair of lips. a. least, was puckered
10 utter "Polly," when 10! muscular lit
tie hercules of fellow came plungng into
being like a qnarter horse, and nameless as
young buff,Io. Wha, was TO be done
The nomens and cognomens Of all the un-
cles maternal, palernal, end doubtful were
ca,alogued and canvossed; forefs.hers, and
! more too, were summoned, bu, after all. usl
as any body could have told befor ehand, she
concluded mem. coi,.-We should like to see
the man with heart TO refuse, as she lay
there, her hair.
''Brown in the shadow, golden in the sun,
flowing over he white pillow, and her soft
eyes with new look in them, turned upon
her husband d-she concluded, then, nem
con-, 10 call him-she never degraded The
! boy 10 a pal,ry ''it'-lo call him Frank.-
Wha,'iI you wager it wasn't The name of the
! father?
Well, by this time, they've got the li!le
:, fellow in his new cradle, and as the mo,hei
watches him, she weaves sweet beguIline
song, Of wha. shall be, "in The good time
coming," when Frank gets to be five; when
he gets to be ten; when he comes to be &
man, and honors his mother, and lives s!lona
in the land that the Lord" shall give him.
Life is grea. poem, and here, rendered
into the plainest of prose, is the sweetest O
! its stanzas.-N Y Tribune.
lady gwen To ta.le says she never tell:
anything only to two classes of people
, those who ask her, and those who don't.
Punch says, an astronomer being asked
:, what The use of the eclipse was, replied