The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-03-17

Eheieavens hold
Boz silver and gold
In the star, and they will dress her.
Good Words for ne fAung.
MoIIygrumps or, The King of the Nurs-
cry.
I'm the king of the nursery. Every
body says so, so know it's true. The
other two are girls, and, of course, they
can't be king l used to have a horrid
old nurse, with brass rings to her great
ugly spectachs, and a big hook in her
nose, and such squeaking voice, too,
and the Jumps that old thing used to
stuff down ny throat with the pap /
only wish Du could have seen them.
But ma sent her away, and I've got an
other nurse now, a brand-new one, and
very jolly she is, L can tell you. She
knows the right way to put sugar i'll your
food, and ID mistake.
Tn Just year old. Ma calls mo Will
lie, and bby boy, and mothers own
pet, and lot more. Pa calls me Bill.
/ call that liberty, because my name
isn't Bill. But then pas not bad fell
low; he cap pitch me up to the ceiling
and catch ne again, and he lets me play
with the ltops on the chandelier, and he
gives mebts of goodies, and sweet stuff
The othsr day when poked my finger
in his eve by mistake, he never howled
one bit. should have had jolly roar
if he'd dne it to me by mistake, but he
only said ooh, Bill, Bill" and handed
me over 0 nursie.
/ stucl my thumb in my mouth, and
tried to look solemn, but something
tickled lie, and / set up my favorite
song of 'Gug, gug, pap'm" And pa
began t, laugh, but there was lot of
water cming down his cheeks.
Babis can't be expected to be sorry
like otter people; so long as we scream,
and eat and drink, and sleep, don't
see VIII we should DO anything else.
Ma makes such fuss over me-she
dandle me up, and calls me her king
of beatty, and her brightest dove, and
a heal more but of course it's all
right What are mothers for, if it
isn't |, make fuss over usY
l sly, did you ever have a thing
called the mollygrumps2 Because if
you Invent, you ought to be baby for
one dy, just to see what it is like. Oh,
it's Drrld, L can tell you
Jut listen here. and I'll tell you about
my irst time of the mollygrumps.
Well You must knew that pa and me-
alwa7s have me brought down stairs
Will they're having breakfast.
Tn in my night-gown, of course, and
then I lie and kick about on the tiger.
Skin that uncle brought home from
som dreadful hot place.
Ma heaps my toys all around me, and
thai stupid old lamb that [ used to be
friehtened OF. But 1 amt such a goose
nov. was only bit of a baby then.
] used to have rattles and rubber
rings and bells, but I'm ever so much
toe old for that baby stuff now.
Well, while 1 was rolling about, an6
P6 had a good suck at the top of the
poser Ct was so nice and cold), some
thing like pins got into my stomach al
ina minute, so set up yell as loud as
/ ,ould bawl.
Ma tumbled all her coffee on the
cbth, and pa upset the gravy over his
legs but that didn't matter. screamed
til 1 got as black as / could, and m'
sid What's de matter with The
Ietsy- wetsy Come to mummy, d.
tile darling, then"
And pa said "Why, Billy boy
what's de natter Come to papa
But / only kicked. The pins went OF
sticking into me, and howled away.
Pa rang the bell for nursie, and trie(
to hold me on his lap till she came
Then MA said
"He's hurt his little darling heddy
weddy-I know he has.
But / knew hadn't.
"Has he bumped his heddy-wedd,
with the naughty old poker-woker9
sad, pa.
But they never thought about pins il
nv stomach. Pas and mas are so stupid
Ma rolled ne over and over, and KEEP
on saying
"What is it, mammals own boy
Tell mamma all about it, then"
But how could / tell, and the pin
sticking away all the while3
Then nursie came. The minute sh
say me she stopped down and took m
ur; then she said to ma:
Mollygrumps !"
4 never knew what Mollygrumps
was before, but / suppose ma and p
did they set up howl, and pa said:
"Brandy- brandy" and he ran to tn
sideboard where they kept the sugar an
nice things. And ma said.
"No, no! Hadn't we better send fo
the doctor."
But, bless you, nursie knew all abou
it, and she said:
"No, no; we'll soon cure the littl
beauty-boy."
Then she turned me over, and m
made her sit down on the rocking chai
by the fire, with me in her lap, and sh
rubbed some stuff all over where til
pins were sticking in, and the pins wei
away.
Then left off yelling, and pa chucke
my chin and said:
"Hallo, Bill how's the bread bask,
now, eh, old boy2"
And ma said:
"Dere, den, DE- little sweetie, de pai
all don away Bless him, sweetie-l,