The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1869-03-19

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have milk ont Of my bottle aay more
have bread aud milk out OF a bowl Bridge
ties my bib under my chin aud feeds me
very iast--she doesn't understand that
ought to have time to swallow, When
shut my lips aud spultor, she says, - Ha .,,,
q now take your supper good, ike dar''n
{ / cant swallow whole bowl AZ t,no hat
| cry, aud she gives me "a SHAKE A''''
have the stomach ache. 49,. bagpn
Living awake with 1t one nIE5I ,,on, o,n
D 10 think hadn't my rights, ara an I oar
4 How 10 get EN- don't knG" ~ -, -,
hut that's no use. AioN' Wv -g"' VIA
= come. ofu2 They og,Y CIV III, UPS
y NIX. me- sleep then ieo' uoI anu SICK
[ a,J .,ap.I all the next day. One OF my
Ill. - not to have drops but there, now,
t5 E@' ma not to have EN- ? There it comes
aga r5 % most agefostabIe aok 'iever had.
WI. an India raRsey. bdttlc,s WRnt. al
! mothers made foJ, e A. bd6yeisn't to,>hayr
| one Who invented nursing bO,tes?~ !
hate him, whoever be was.
have a mother, you know-a lady who
says she is, cones 10 sometimes aud tell
other ladhsthA she is not "contented with
bridget % Neither ann, for that matter /;
N6ut,you see my mother IS not thinking Of
my rights, but Of hers. She wants to vote,
aud even wanting 10 do it takes great
| deal Of time. She writes, too, for the ncws
papers. When want to find out whether
She ia really my mother, and begin to talk
to her, she says Bridget, you must really
take that darliu child away--he disturbs me
dreadullv"
Bridget is big and coarse Ter great knobs
Of kuuckles hurts me. She ties strings too
tight aud joys me too hard.
Ny own mother il soft and fair, aud her
skin is like elk, and like to touch her
! I'm "a !aiy's baby, and one Of my rights is
that "a lady should handle and daudIe me,
No one sees it. I'm put off on BRIDGET
Mamma don't ike to sit nj the table with
/ Bridget, but she lets her feed me, Perhaps
have aristocratiC notions, too who cares
for them.
One day Bridget had big p3wter breast.
| pin, with yellow stone in It, % her collar
aud it KEEP, scratching my head; nobody
/ knew il. One day she took me ont IN my
wagon and upset me- no one knew that
either.
She takes me out to her cousins shanty,
where little Pat has the measles or tho
small pox, ant if ] don'tca catch EN- both it's
because there's sweet little cherub that siti
up alyil, to keep watch for poor mothcrIe,s
babies.
Sometimes She leaves mc alone in the
room with great fire. always put my
fingers into it, aud they alwa' burn. Once
mamma found it out, aud had q different
| Bridget. They are all alike; they come
/ from the intelligence Office, and are rough
and cUarsr and smell Of smoke, and take
care of me for money, and not for love. The
new one is sleepy, and mods over and drops
me sometimes. One got upsy and lay on
me. Some day one will tumble down stairs
with big feet and slipshod shoes, and brea5
my neck, dare say.
4 father, too. have "A right TO father
Mine is Wall street man he goes ON
early and comes home 10 dinner. ! SHOULD
= think he might be- very nice to know, bI
, I'm not acquainted with him; he has me,
A black wiskers and he laughs and says "haUu
old fellow when We meet, and try to teI
=" him about Bridget; aud my feelings Owe
"a power me, aud cry, and he says, " ! ak
the little rascal away, Bddy'
IL, Oae dreadful thing DO have; It's Il fan
ly doctor; he says | IN very line ch,td, NJ
~ does dreadful things 10 me Once be lane,
SO my gums, once he yaccinated me. Aft
ed. that had a sore arm, and Brlgdets bI
,5 mrrIuo hurt IT,
Ia ammcr there used 10 be some comic
ia going out IN my perambuia,ur, and So
NJ ing lhat after oil | was not worse oft tina
iy other babies, all given over 10 Bridget
Ig whom ! met; but now ITS winter, and ha'
q % ..tur fu my uur4prv "a flannel -havt