Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1872-03-06

in dusty, reckless coils, there is washing
day look about her-her skirts are care
less in their dispostiou-she hath gen
eral dusty air, and bears many traces oI
anna gamation with the Public Baby. She
married because she had chance-be.
cause man came along-because it is 4
part of life TO marry. The union has re-
suited in one, perhaps several Public Bl-
/ bies- Society shudders, without exactly
showing why, on the appearance of each.
She doesn't. She would regard without
alarm the prospect Of producing three
score aud ten. Should it be hiuted at that
Malthus didn't approve of an excess in IN
fInts, she would probably intimate that
Malthus might mind his own business,
while she would mind hers-that Of produc-
ing Pubic Babies.
In disposition the Public Baby is ug-
lier than a convention of rattlesnaxes,
more venomous than a caucus Of cent?
peles, mearer than band of coyotes. 1t
does not intend to be suited or pacj6ed-
it is madder than ever when it wakes up
TO discover that it has been trotted into a
brief sIumber, and has thereby been cheat
ed for few moments cut of making some
bo!y uncomfortable.
There was a Public Baby on the cars
the other day. Ga starting trom the de-
pot | felt q strange sense of missing pres
ence. | wondered at this Soon all was
explained. The Public Baby was not on
board But il came at the next station.
The little ieud never misses a train or pays
a cent This Public Baby at first cried
aad howled on general principles 1t had
not as yet discovered any special cause for
grievance-because of thus it cried. It's
little hands were sticky with some manner
OF saccharine sickness, its little face was
sticky with the same, especially its little,
but noisy mouth-it rubbed its little sticky
face with its lltt.e sticky hanls--the gene
raj sickness of its face was malglmated
with that of its hands. and vice versa.
When 1t had prepared this mixture, II
wanted to rub it over all who sat near. ItI
clutchel 1T a lady's bonnet ribbons, and
succeeded in transferring a spot OF mo-
Ilsses co.ored brown TO the bright blue Of
the silk. The lady turned sac noticed
the Public Baby, she lookei as if she
wished King llerod were alive and doing
lively business in that particular ear. The
parents withdrew their sticky of.pring
from the front Then it howled with re-
aewed anguish because it couldn't have
that lady 10 paw. Taey gave it more col
ored clniy and little cake With such
material the little vel spring of pleas
urc worked itself into an uneasy lump OF
.acebariHe and mucilag'nous matter. II /
studded It's countenance with cake crumb
Soon the receptacle for candy within that
baby was full. it criel because it could
hold 40 more. Il wanted to 20 to its faith
err it went, thea it cried TO % back to its |
mother. il went. then II howiel to - back !
o. tltaer a-ain lie went INTO the smok |
,nr car. men have some rights Which can !
not be invaded. The Public Baby then
demanded in its expressive way that it |
should repay the lady blue bonnet
strings its mother tossed it a.ois, It cried. /
-he held is lower, sill. il cried. s3e held il /
,ops.ie down, top-ide down IL cried 1t |
became ro4 iu the face, people around /
hoped it might burst, some moved away. |
[ nt3rtunatc Y, the mother discovered its I
langer. and the child was preserved, pre-
served to howl Tor years, until it ceased to /
1e a Public Baby. Prentice Malford IN
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