Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1872-05-08

ihlncFs tut NEaNluE-fuuh tat NeH1ANf'i'
that papa must get to telegraph Cfhee
as soon as possible aud send back mes.
sage to the junction for the arrest aud
consolation Of the bereayed mother, aud
which message he was 10 follow in person
by the night train. When he meek!y
remarked that he supposed he had better
take the baby With him, the proposal was
received with shouts Of laughter which
greatly relieved our overcharged spirits.
But poor papa could not laugh. He had
always before him the sorrow-worn face
of the baby's mother. Sill, ho looked
:. relieved when he found that his peBauce
was not to include Juggling back the baby
bodily. 1t was ordered by the council
that should take the baby home with
me, as best could, to be kept under
mammals care till papa should bring its
own mother there to claim it. The little
creature, now that it was no longer cold
and frightened aud hungry, lay on my
arms smiling and coong in the most be-
witching manner. Indeed, it proved to
be a perfect beauty, and | had contrived
to love it so already that | am afraid if
q its mother had appeared that night /
should almos. have hated her.
Papa gazed at it with mingled emotion
O and finally whispered to me with ritiiul
attempt at Il smile,
!. "Pussie, don't you think your mother
a will-wil be rather pleased? 81 {
a has always wanted to adopt baby!' /
d, couldn't in conscience think that mamma's s
4 emotions would be altogether pleasurable
when she saw me return from my "trcat
! minus my father, and plus somebody's
baby, but | believed that after all, things
would come out right. and said so to pa
pa as he kissed me goodbye, for we had
p, reached the station where he was 70 be
" left. even restrained my lips from say
" ing what was in my heart: Don't fo
PHYS sake BRING home the wrong woman.
For it was forlorn enough for him to g
back in the dark, cold night with his bur
den of remorse, in search Of probabl.
half.crazed mother, instead of being wei
;. coined home in an hour or two, as he hat
hoped, by his own loving little wife, with
-. out any ugly thrusts from me.
" We others reached A. speedily, an
" as mamma had sent the close carriag
, with abundant robes and wraps for us,
resisted Col. Phillips'S entreaties to b
Il" allowed to 90 home with me, two mile
W ont into the suburbs, and drove off glee
~ fllly alone, with my precious baby no.
fast asleep in my arms.
How sweet mamma and Aunt Fam
>, looked. as they stood in the shining ha
81 to receive us How unutterably amaze
" they looked when no papa appeared, an
49, John handed in, not my hat-box, for
" course papa had gone off without givin
To- me my check, or anything that was mir
us :, but an old black bag while |, instead
'"' flying through the door to hug them
NV my usual tempestuous manner, stepp'
'n'- gingerly out of the caraiagc and up II
~'e steps, an old black and white shawl hu
III III ged in my arms, and with unnatural cali
'"o ness remarked: -
Mamma, l have had q beautil
cry time in New York, and | have broug
ist you home baby" and then went off
on to an irdefnite series of gIggcs al
Tne shrieks "a not very surprising renctl
hre from my enforced matrOnhood and e
'uS citement Of the last few hours,
alt spare you explanations and furth
q. particulars, only assuring you that neN
tier was baby, "borrowed" or otherwise,
brooded and made much of as mil
'on The little monkey seemed not at all
lied miss his mother, and indeed it had
else many mothers as it could attend to
was mamma, and Aunt Fanny and me. /
lor- | must wind mp luy story. Before DIM
that next day, as we we're having gra
US froic with Miss Baby, papa marched
ber- triumphantly, with the air of conque
ard and philanthropist rather thao tine
de- prit he wrs, and accompanying him v
its not only the sweet.faced little woman
airs black land the right woman, fora wond
year but my own wraps and beloved Rus
ble) leather bag!
iuc- Mamma says that papa's absent'ml'
1t ed bunders have a way of ending SO {
be- sfactorily as to fail of making any 81
re- tary impression on his delinquent mi
lis and Of driving him to mend his ways
And so it proved in this case, if
'ped will believe it. Mrs. Simms THAT
lllk, the little womaus name) was really IN
rain ding to come to c., only five nj
neil, from us, where some connections Ii,
9 to who she thought might give her she
r a till she could find work to support
1t an self and child.