The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1854-04-11
BABY LITERATURE

The knickerb ecker publishes in every number
chapter OF baby sayings in which every body in
the country that has smart baby has something to
tell of the precocity Of Tommy, or Bobby, or Natty,
or Sammy, until we are inclined to ask, not with
Mrs.. Seba Smith, where the smart babies 20 to- but
where the deuce they come FROM The success of
Kuickerbockers stories, although we detest imita-
tons moren pisen, induces us to publish chapter
OF our own, in which we shall eudeavor to run a
muck of smartness with those OF Knix.
Our friend Skittle writes us-'I have a boy seven
years old who is remarkable for proclivity for
iron pots and bis face often bears evidence Of hs
the kitchen from back scullery, with his face ter.
ribly besmutted, his mother chided him for his un-
clean propensity, when, putting his arms akimbo
ner to excite the risibles of all within hearing"
Job Twattle, Esq, OF Huckleberry Hill, saws in 3
note" My little girl Betsey, five years DID, called
" Sis In petting way, has remarkable liking
for frogs. No Frenchman could be more devoted
to that class OF reptile than Sis She will watcI,
them by the brooks in the frog season for hours.
and bring crumbs for them to eat. Her mother
had great antipathy to them, and one day her
horror was complete as Sis entered the room and
poured upon the hoor an apron full of her queer
iavores, with the extremely sagacious remark
Look, ma wouldn't these be pretty brides if thew
only had wings"
MY little Steve" says correspondent from
spoon Hollow, when about four years old, one
day was missing. He was sought the whole neigh
borhood over without success, the mill.creek. on
the bank OF which | reside was searched but as
there was water there twas certain that he had
not been drowned The utmost CONSERVATION pre.
vailed, the neighbors-the deaf shoemaker and his
wle-turned out en- masse to search for him when
after undergoing as much fifteen minutes ankle
ty, Steve was found coolly seated at the bottom of
new well about ten feet deep, that was being due
employed with big spoon that accompanied him
when ne tell, scraplng up the loose dirt. immedi
ately, with as much GOODNESS as could command
tor thought suppose that well had been full -
asked him what he was doing there Looking IN at
me from the bottom-the bottom of the we'll 7
mean-he replied with infinite simplicity, Doing
WELL Lycurgus nor DR.. Franklin could HAY
sald no more. Some thought it was an incipient
pun"
ut is wise disposition of Providence" writes
clerical friend from Scarborough, ''that children
regard their parents superior to all of creation
1t renders parental control more easy, and does
away much OF the necessity for the birchen JUNCTION
essentiai-ylde Solomon-in Fastening obedience
Looking from my study window a few DAYS since
observed two young immortals, of perhaps six
summers. engaged IN alteration, which found to
proceed from superiority claimed by each of his
father over the others. Look here Jim Brown
said No. l, my fathers better man than your fa
taer' cause he's got as much as a hundred dollars
, ana wears a watch vat Yes replied No but my
iather wears The biggest bootsF How idle it is /
tnougnt, Tor any OF us to claim superiority over
fellow-man. We may, after all. find thai tho,,nh
we have wealth and learning. somebody else will
be found to have bigger boots, or some sunerior,,
Ia some way, to themselves"
Mr. Nozzle, from Humtown Four Corners savs
ina letter to Us that he induced to abstain ia
tipple by rebuke received from little son of his
about .nf re-. years old. Coming home one night
usual, in my course towards which | had roaa
through every street and lane in the village. fand
my family all waiting my arrival. My wife yerv
tcelingly remarked that it a great .marsv'tbay
| hadn't broken my neck, and the children m1nifest
ed their affectionate regard in many sinister wavs
My little Tine, who was sitting in high chair nv
the table, masicating his bread aid butter looked
OF infantile sweetness, Tight again, old copper
nosef' literally staggered to seat, was so over
come. The next day signed the pledge, and have
pretty generally kept it ever since"
These few instances must suffice for the present
but we have seven pigeon holes filled with matters
equally authentic, relating to babies and their lite.
terature.-Boston Post.
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