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

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blank amqzement at the three actors in
this pleasing little drama. until il happened
to occur to me that they had not the cue;
so | proceeded to explain that this was
only one of the frequent little entertain
ments which papa aud his besetting sin
were wont to get up for the benefit of
whomsoevor it might concern.
Help me, Phillips! Think for me-"
cried poor papa, his wits utterly demor-
allied by the horrors of the situation and
the shrieks ofthe chief victim there pres
eut. THAT poor little woman in black -
he went on; there she had cried herself
to sleep, aud l, like an internal scoundrel
mast needs make off with her baby and
the rest of her things!7
"Ai! all" walled the little Greek cho-
rus from out my unfamiliar arms in fitting
response to papa's remorseIul apostrophe,
So left the gentlemen to canvass plans
for the relief Of the poor mothers agony,
aud bent all my powers to the care of heI
vociferous offspring.
Luckily, Teazie was wiser in her gen
eration than |, thanks to an overhowing
nursery at home, and suggested that th'
child was hungry aud that perhaps, al
papa was in the habit Of stealing babies
he might have been provident enough t,
bring away proper nourishment also.
Accordinly, while trotted and 'sh-'sh
shed aud dandled papa's elephant up AM
down the whizzing car, 1eazie went on
Goragiug expedition and soon brough
back rusty old b!aSI; bag (Which looke'
even less like my Russia leather beaut
than the yellow-haircd creature like me-
and out of it she pulled sure enough,
bottle of milk.
snatched It and would have poppe
it at once into the baby's mouth, whic
mouth. was accommodaringly oper
but Tea2ie swoopcd upon it with all tn
airs of mother in Israel, exclaiming
What little goosie 1t must /
warmed Of course"
Ii was actually half frozen, md whi
we should have douo in this dilemm
; without the impertiacnt conductor | don
know.
lie was now transformed into the m o
gracious, iatherly creature imaginabI
He patted father soothingy on the back
he devised ways aud means with Coon
Phillips; he chirruped to the baby;
compimented me on my not very markt
: success as a nursery maid; and scarce
Z had Teazic proclaimed the necessity
" heating baby's supper, than he rushed
y the disused water tank at the other Ell
= of the car, and after u gallant strugg
. with the chained cup, returned trlur
. rhant. and stood polishing away its du
y and rust with his scented pocket .handkt
chief, while we looked on admiring. n
did he stop here. He himself, with
o own bediamonded fingers, poured t
milk into the cup and held it over the i
, stove to the great dotrimeat Of his co
fort and complexion, until Mother Tea
expressed herself satisfied with its tie
:, pcrature (that Of the baby's milk-not
conductors color).
in If you do not think that this was vt
much to do, then all ! have to say is, ju
examine the next drawing-room car G.
ductor you chance to meet, and ina G
his serene elegance toasting before the
;. in an uncomfortable and even ludcro
attitude, all in h owliug baby's beh;
49, and perhaps you will change your min
Moral: Men are sometimes bet
70 than they look.
~ But let US return to our little nout
he AS the baby had been too much occup
nj with its own vocal exercises to critic
m. our culinary operations, its appetite
n. good in the dust and the rust and the oc
m Gus pocket-baudkerchief, aud the way t
milk disappeared was astonishing to
M ignorant utiiders. |, indeed, relnemt
IN ing vaguely stories which | had ne
-, of the fatal results of over-feedng,
INJURED at giving the insatiate atom
j., will with the bottle, but Teazie (the
ck that child put on, for she was j
% younger than l, were almost insuffera
- laughed at me, and inform ed the conc
tor authoritatively that she might hind
he necessary to have him stop the train
=. fore we reached A, in order to
plenish nursery supplies, to which he
ro, tened meekly submissive to her will.
However, although We really stop
Mt the next station, it was not for N
,lo but to set down poor papa The +
conductor had been called into cou'
~, aud although it took him some time
q understand that father was neither
wicked kiduapper nor a madman, bu