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

Her husband had died three weeks be
fore in Minnesota. and as soon as she
could settle up her small affairs she had
started for the East. At the time when
papa made bis atrocious descent upon her
possessions she had been travelling for
several days and nights without rest,
aud having laid her baby down on the
seat opposite her for its nap had, as ia.
iher surmised, cried herself TO sleep.
Unluekily she slept on after reaching
the junction, where she ought to have
taken the same train with ourselves aud
the abducted baby.
She bad wakened later to 6ud that
she was on the wrong route, and-horror
of horrors that her baby had myster'
iously disappeared.
The conductor was Que Of the humane
species. and as soon as he could collect
her story from her agonized confusion he
had put her in the way Of speedy return
to the junction, and telegraphcd a state
ment of her case before her. And so il
came to pass, after the lapse of two oil
three hours Of resultless search aud in
quiry, in which she was aided by kindly
officials, that the news of her baby's ap
proach reached her.
I An aggravation of her case lay in th'
fact that she had not only lost her bab!
and her bag, but her purse, containing
her ticket aud about three dollars, ever.
| penny she had in the world, had beel
filched from her pocket while she slept
r or during the frenzy Of her search for he
G baby. So it is well she had papa to car
| for her during the remainder Of the jour
5 ney.
Now of course it would be vain for
- man VINO steals bags and babies to reser
5 being suspected Of picking pockets, an
$ to this very day, mamma can alway
= bring papa to terms whenever he rebe
d again nst her gentle and wise guidance, b
c the simple inquiry, "My dear, are yo
= sure that you haven't Mrs. Simms's pocb
r et-book somewhere about you?'
; We had noticed that the baby's cloth
o though simple, were made with exquisi
+ nicety, AMI mamma as delighted to r
y tain Mrs. Simms, baby and here the graf
/ ful little soul has remained ever sine
d Papa obviously p)umes himself on th
l. acquisition to our household, and oft
goes into the sewing room to beam COZ
ID placenty upon Mrs. Simms and litt
re Moses, as | named her. At first, as '
l observed, whenever papa appeared on Il
1e scene Mrs. Simms watched him and b
es baby with vigilantly suspicious eyes, fe'
e. ing probacly second attack Of his 81
W gular klepIomania. This apprehension "
justified, it must be confessed, by the fl
~ that when any visitors came to us W
I'll had heard the baby story, and it went
ed and wide wherever the chief actor "
ld known, papa felt called upon to dem'
of strate before their iucredulous eyes b
ng inevitably-thc haste of changing c.
ne amid the maddening noises Of Y. jul
OF tion being understood-a thorough
In wrapped up infant mast be mistaken
cd bundle of wraps, and unsuspiciou
he tucked under the arm and made off wi
lg- For time, Moses lent herselfgracio
M ly to the exhibition, and saved pap
reputation for sanity again and aga
ful She long ago outgrew her role howev
yht but we still boldly champion her agai
in the iufantile world as the soundest
nd slcepe rs when sleep is in order, and
ion sweetest und merriest of wide-awak
ex- And whatever else poor papa's mind n
let slip, he never forgcts the claims
ner our Borrowed Baby.