Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-01-21
Left With the Baby.

Mrs. Graham came over the other night
AMI wanted to know If l wouldn't take
care care of her year-old baby for about
fifteen minutes, and let her and Mrs.
Quad 60 down town to get pair of
shoes for poor old woman. She added
that the little darling was sound asleep
and wouldn't even wink while they were
gone, and / consented, She brought him
in and laid him on the sofa, snugly
tucked him up, kissed him fourteen
times, and then they were gone.
sat writing, and by and by forgot
all about the child. The woman had
been gone about seven minutes and q
half, when all of sudden the baby
yelled out:
"Hi-whoo- koop boo-whoopw and he
kicked his little blanket sky -high and sat
up and looked at me.
"Well, my son, the drowsy god has
flown away, ehs" ] inquired, as ! APP
preached him.
He opened his eyes very wide, discov-
cred that wasn't his father or mother,
and he shrank away and yelled out:
"Ki-yi-whoop-whoa-hi"
went in and found the sugar-bowl
and selected fat lump, but he stuck up
his nose in disgust at the sight of II and
howled until q chrome of the Washing
ton family was Jared down. 1took down
a looking-g glass and held it so that he
could see himself. He held up for mo-
ment, amazed at the sight of such face,
and then he gave the glass kick and
started oil on a louder key. heard Pc
destrians stopping under the window to.
listen, and scrubbed around and got
hold of a basin and the stove-handle.
The pounding stopped his bowling for
about thirty seconds, but then the nov
city wore of, and he threw himself back
and screamed until he was as red as an
Indiana tanning mill. The crowd under
the window increased, and heard vii
lain say:
Some one ought to go for the policel
That old tyrant of Quad is numbering
his child ~
/ got piece of bread and butter from
the pantry, and the boy took it, held it
under his nose for an instant, and then
threw il and hit me on the knee and
howled until / expected he would burst
a blood-vessel. l got down q picture
book and tried to make him look at Will
lam Penn preaching to the Indians, I'M
der tree, on the site of Philadelphia,
but he took one glance and then kicked
me on the chin and yelled:
Boo.hoo-ooh hi-yi-ki ~
Young man." ! replied, as | bent
over him and pointed my finger at his
nose, is there anything in this house
you wants What will you take TO shut
upg How much to call 10 square,"
He seemed to feel insulted, and he
howled until could see away down his
throat attempted to pick him up, but
he wrigcled away and fell on his head
on the floor. | heard something snap,
and | secretly hoped that his vertebra
was broken, and that he was done for;
but after moment he recovered con
seriousness, and bit at the sofa like amad
dog.
at is our duty TO 60 in there and
tomahawk the old wretch" yelled one
of the crowd under the window, and
got out some sugar and q stocking
and made sugar-teat for the
young scoundrel. He took 1t, held it up
and gazed at il, and then flung il at the
stove handed him apples, fried cakes,
prune sauce, raisin cake and picked
peaches; but nothing would stop his
bowling. He kicked in the crystal Of
my watch, tore my necktie off, pulled my
hair, and finally, when the women had
been gone two hours. determined to Kill
the imp. ] brought in the butcher knife,
AK, revolver and hammer, placed them
before him and asked him TO take his
choice. He wouldn't stop his dreary
bowling, and had my coat off and the
AK raised over him when his mother
came. She doesn't know TO this day but
that got those things in there as play
things 10 amuse her young villain; but
he knows it, and $4,000 in cash wouldn't
hire him TO look into my back yard
through the alley-fence.-A. Quad, IN
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