The Cairo evening bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1868-1870, 1869-03-03
AB.uY.s RIGHTS.
BAnYs sroRY-nY BABY.

ARNBY'S sToRY---BY A BABY.
amt very old 20 Nr,r--Im only one
1t was my birthday yesterday. and don't
have milk out ofu bottle uay myr,--l have
bread and milk out of bowl. Bridget ties
my bib under my chin and feed, me very
! iast-.hc doesn't understand that ] ought 20
have time TO swallow. When | shut my
lips and sputtcr, she says, There, now take
your supper good like a. darliul | can't
swallow II whole bowl Mt time; and | cry,
and she gives me shake. After that have
the stomach-achc.
Lying awake with It ono night, began 10
think that ] hadn't my rights; and | want
en-. How TO get EN- | don't know. cry
all ] can--but that's no use. | kick, too
nut what good comes of Il? They only give
me drops TO make me sleep; then ! feel hot
and sick and stupid all the next day. One
fmy rights is not to have drops; but there
now, how am not to have en-? There it
comes again
The most comfortable thing | ever had was
an India-ruhber bottle. What are mothers
made for III baby isn't TO have one? Who
invented nursing bottles? / hate him who
ever he was.
have mother, you know-a lady who
SAYS she is--comcs in sometimes and tells 9TH
or ladic, that she Is mot contentel with
Bridget" Neither am /. for that matter;
hut YOU see my mother j. not thinking ofmy
rights, but Of hor,. She wants to vote, and
oven wanting 20 do 1t takes "a great deal OF
time. She writes, too, for the newspapers.
When ! want too find out whether she is
really my mother aud begin To- talk 10 her,
she says, bridget You must really take that
darlin' child away-he disturbs ma dread
fully"
Bridge, s. big and coarse; her great knobs
of kuucklo. hurt me. She ties strings too
tight and Jog. me too hard.
Ny own mother :, .uft and fair, and her
skin {. Ike .ilk. and Ike tu touch her IN
lady. baby, and ono OF mg rights j. that "a
lady should handle and durd,c ME. No one
sec. H. I'm pat OF ou Bridget
Mamma don't like TO At at the table with
Bridget, bat she lots her feed me- Perhaps
have ari,tocratic notions, too; who cares
for them
one day Bridge, had big pewter breast
pin with u yellow stone in IL, on her collar,
and it kept scratching my head nobody knew
t. One day she took nae out IN my wagon
and upset INC; no ono kUrw that, either
She takes me out 10 her cousins shanty,
where little Pat la. the mcasel, or the small
poy, and If don't catch EN- both, it., because
There, sweet little chcrub that Ill, up
aloft 70 keep watch for poor, mothcrless
babies.
Sometimes she leaves me alone In the room
with great fire. always put my fingers
into H. and they always burn. Oucs mamma
found il ont and had different Bridget
The are all alike; they come from the intel
lcouce Office and are rough and coarse
aud smell of smoss and tsag care Of me iur
money and not for love, The new one +,
sleepy and mods over md drops mo some
times. One got tipscy and lay on me som,
day one will tumble down stairs with her bic
feet slip-hod SHOES, and break my neck, dar,
say.
4 father, To. have right 10 father
Mine /. WHil--rr''i uIsu; hc zoe. out early
and come. home 10 DINNER. / should think
hc might hc very nice 90 know, but I'm not
acquainted with h.w; Ae has nice black wills
kcr, uud ll,-l- uul Gays. Halo. old follow
when wr meet, and / ry 90 tell him about
Bridget and nay ire...-s empowered ne
and cry, and he say,, Take the little rascal
away, Bddy
One dreadful thing | DO have: its family
doctor he says I'm very fine child and
doe. dreadful thing, TO me. After that | had
a sore arm and Bridgets blue mcrno hurt il.
In summer there used 10 be some comfort
IN going ont in my Qeramhulator, and seeing
that uit.r all ] was not worse of than other
babies, all given over 20 Brdgets. whom
met; but now II winter and have TO stay
in my nursery in Il flannel shawl and do
nothing but think; and We decided that
must have my rights. \ whole mother ought
10 belong 10 every baby; and Bridget is an
imposition. \ lady : baby ought to lie some
times In a lady's arms and be talked to by a
lady, When | am able to speak | shall say
what Bridget say. and with her accent and
thcnsI shall be ,coded, ~ if it were my fault.
That's the way with my brother Tom.
Here lie now, while Bridget talk, to the
milkman in the area. I'm hungry, and damp,
and wretchcd m tired of being in the era
die, and | shall hurt myself ii ] roll out.
want the big orange on the nontelpiece, and
to sit in somebody's lap and have my feet
toasted. and hear 'lttle pig goes to market !;
hut mamma is at political meeting, and papa
in Wall street, and Bridget in the area, and
who cares for what ! want Rights? won
der whore my rights are? Nobody talks
about them. No matter, III yell until get
EN-
+. 81 have yelled and Budget has given
me drops No matter, when I'm man III
90 in for the rights OF babies. I'm going 10
sleep. Good-by.