The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-04-20

Both silver and gold
In the stars, and they will dress her.
Good Words for the YOUNG.
Moliygrumps; 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. used to have o horrid
old nurse, with brass rings to her great
ugly spectacles, and a big hook in her
nose, and such squeaking voice, too,
and the Jumps that old thing used to
stuff down my throat with the pap! 1
only wish you could have seen them.
But ma sent her away, and I've got an
other nurse now, brand-new one, and
very jolly she is, I can tell you. She
knows the right way to put sugar III your
food, and no mistake.
I'm Just year old. Ma calls me Will
lie, and baby boy, and mothers own
pet, and lot more. Pa calls me Bill.
call that q liberty, because my name
isn't Bill. But then pas not bad fell
low; he can pitch me up to the ceiling
and catch me again, and he let's me play
with the drops on the chandelier, and he
gives me lots of goodies, and sweet stuff.
The other day when l poked my finger
in his eye by mistake, he never howled
one bit. I should have had a jolly roar
il he'd done it to me by mistake, but he
only said, "Oh, Bill, Bill! and handed
me over 10 nursie.
I stuck my thumb in my mouth, and
tried to look solemn, but something
tiokled me, and 1 set up my favOrite
song of "Gug, gug, pap'm" And pa
began to laugh, but there was lot of
water coming down his checks.
Babies can't be expected to be sorry
like other people; so long as we scream,
and cat, and drink, and sleep, 1 don't
see why we should do anything else.
Ma makes such fuss over me-she
handles me up, and calls me her king
of beauty, and her brightest dove, and
heap more but of course it's all
right. What are mothers for, If it
isn't to make fuss over us9
say, did you ever have thing
called the mollygrumps? Because if
you haven't, you ought to be baby for
one day, just to see what it is like. Oh,
it's horrid, 1 can tell you
Just listen here. and I'll tell you about
my first time of the mollygrumps.
Well, you must know that pa and ma
always have me brought down stairs
while they're having breakfast.
I'm in my night-gown, of course, and
then lie and kick about on the tiger
skin that uncle brought home from
some dreadful hot place.
Ma heaps my toys all around me, and
that stupid old lamb that I used to bt
frightened of. But amt such a goose
now. Twas only bit of baby then
L used to have rattles and rubber
rings and bells, but I'm ever so mucl
too old for that baby stuff now.
Well, while I was rolling about, ant
I'd had O good suck at the top of tin
poker Git was so nice and cold), some
thing like pins got into my stomach al
in minute, SO 1 set up yell as loud a
1 could bawl.
Ma tumbled all her coffee on TIN
cloth, and pa upset the gravy over hi
legs but that didn't matter. I screame,
till I got as black as 1 could, and nj
said "What's dc matter with tin
petsy-wets Come to mummy, d
, little darling, them"
And pa said: "Why, Billy boy
what's de mattera Come to papa
But I only kicked. The pins went o.
sticking into me, and I 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 I knew hadn't.
"Has he bumped his heddy-wedd
with the naughty old poker-wokers
said pa.
But they never thought about pins i
! my stomach. Pas and mas are SO stupid
! Ma rolled me over and over, and kep
/ ON saying:
"What is it, mammals own boy
Tell mamma all about it, them"
But how could l tell, and the pin
sticking away all the while9
, Then nursie came. The minute sh
saw me she stopped down and took m
r up; then she said to ma:
"Mollygrumpsl'
, I never knew what Mollygrumps
was before, but I suppose ma and p
: did ; they set up howl, and pa said:
Brandy brandy!" and no ran to tn
sideboard where they kept the sugar an
nice things. And ma said:
"No, mol Hadn't we better send fo
|, the doctor2"
{ But, bless you, nursie knew oil 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 tn
) pins were sticking in, and the pins wen
away.
; Then left off yelling, and pa chucke
r my chin and said:
"Hallo, Bill how's tho bread baske
now, ell, old boy2"
And ma said:
"Dere, den, de title sweetie, de pail
all don away! Bless him, sweetie-le
mamma tiss him, denp
And nursie cuddled me up warm, ant
kept still. 1 sucked away at m,
: thumb, but, If tho pins came again,
meant to make another row.
Ma stood by us, and she said:
, "Hadn't he better have something h
take, nurse2"
So 1 began to sniff, because 1 though