The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1874-06-13
The 8alletin.
pnbiication once, RuIIesfn nufIdins
Washington Avease.
SATURDAY, JUNE 10, 1874
BASCONB,S BABY.

| she brought II over TO our house, NrI
Bascomb did. j, was their nrst-a We.
little rud-faced, rod headed, pug .nosed
bowling infant. IL was one OF no hot.
test days la July, but sbe had II wrapped
up In three shawls and u bed quilt, and
was In agony every moment for fear IT
would sneeze
"Do you SEQ his darling, darling litt,o
faceT' she said 10 me, as she unwound
him about forty times, and looked 10 SEQ
which end his feet WAS on.
locked. looked. / have been the
father Of eleven just such bowling little
wopsi $, and didn't see anything re-
msrksb!e about 3ascombs baby.
'See those eyes-that frmness Of mouth,
that temper ia his look" sho went on.
saw them.
Tho little son OF gun began TO got red
In the face and beat the air and his mother
o ol,sd:
"Hs's boing murdered by pin y
She turned him wrong end up, la d him
on his face, then on his bsck, loosoned his
bands, rubbed tho solcs OF his feet, aod
the tears stood in herseyes as she solomnly
remarked
III know he Won't live-he's too smart u
Inc cniId focUN oIed, and as be lay on
u
the ceiling, she went on:
"Such a head Why, every one who
sees him says that he is going 10 be
Beecher, q Greeley or Bismarck do you
notice tia, high forehead p
l did. thought he was all forehead,
~ his hair didn't commence 10 grow until
the back OF his neck was reached, but eli.
assured me that was mistaken.
\ ftu Haf
heftet bins.
told nor 1 never saw child of his
weight weigh go much, and che smiled
like an angel che said that ,he was AFRAID
didn't appreciate children, but | know
che knew did.
Wouldn't jus. look al hi. darling
little fest--his little red feet and cunning
toes 2"
Yes, would.
She rolled him over on HE face aud IN
wound his feot, and triumphan,ly held
them up TO my gaze. l contemplated the
hundreds of little wrinkles running
length wise and crosswise, the big toes and
tho little toes, and agreed with her that
so far 90 I could Judge from the feet and
the toes and the wrinkles, future OF I'M
exsmpled brilliancy lay before that pug.
nosed imp.
lie began to kick and howl, and she
stood him on end, set him up, laid him
down, and trotied him until she bounced
the wind collie into the middle Of Sep,em-
Der.
"Xho did no look like''
l bent over the scarlet-faced rascal,
pushed his nose one, chuckled him under
the chin, and dldnt answer without due
4 tnl har hst n
faint resem blsncs 10 George Washington
around the mouth, but the eyes reminded
me Of Daniel Webster, while the general
features had made me think OF the poet
Milton ever since che entered the house.
That wa. Just her view exactly, only
she hadn't said anything about II before.
"Did think he was too smart 10 liver
felt of his ears, rubbed his head, put
my fingers down the back Of his neck, and
/ told her that, in my humble opinion, he
wasn't though he had had narrow es-
cape. II his nose had been set little
more TO one side, or his oars bad appeared
In the place Of his eyes, Bascomo could
have purchased a weed for his hat with
out delay. No; the child would live
there wAsn't the least doubt about IT, and
any man or woman who said he wouldn't
grow up 10 make the world thunder with
bis fame, would steal the wool of lost
lamb in January.
She felt SO happy that she rolled the
imp up in his forty-nine bandsges shook
him TO straighten his legs and take the
kinks out Of his neck, and then carried
HIM home under her arm, while my wife
made me go along with an umbrella, for
fear the sun would peel his little nose.