The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-03-16

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The cherry tree
Is a merry tree.
And win find the pink to dress her,
The lily bright
Will find the white
The beautiful white to dress her.
The leaves in the wood
Are sweet and good,
And will find the green to dress her.
The honey-suckle,
With buds for buckle,
VIII make girdle to dress her.
The heavens hold
Both silver and gold
In the stars, and they VIII dress her.
Good Words for the Young.
MolIygrumps; or, The King of the Nurs-
cry.
TIM 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. I used to have horrid
old nurse, with brass rings to her great
ugly spectacles, and 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 /
only wish you 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, I can tell you. She
knows the right way to put sugar III your
food, and no mistake.
I'm just a year old. Ma calls me Will
lie, and baby boy, and mothers own
pet, and q lot more. Pa calls me Bill.
/ call that a 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 | poked my finger
in his eye by mistake, he never howled
one bit. I should have had jolly roar
if he'd done it to me by mistake, but he
only said, ooh, Bill, Bill" and handed
me over to nursie.
I stuck my thumb in my mouth, and
tried to look solemn, but something
tickled me, and I set up my favorite
song of ''Gug, gug, pap'm!" And pa
began to laugh, but there was lot of
water coming down his cheeks.
Babies can't be expected to be sorry
like other people; so long as we scream,
and eat, and drink, and sleep, don't
Ma makes such a fuss over me-she
handles me up, and calls me her king
of beauty, and her brightest dove, and
a heap more but of course it's all
right. What are mothers for, ii it
isn't to make fuss over us?
say, did you ever have thing
called the lnollygrumps? Because if
you haven't, you ought to be baby for
one day, just to see what it is like. Oh,
it's horrid, can tell you
Just listen here. and I'll tell you about
my first time of the mollygrumps.
Well, you must knew 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 / used to be
frightened OF. But amt such a goose
now. was only bit of baby then.
I used to have rattles and rubber
rings and bells, but I'm ever SO much
too old for that baby stuff now.
Well. while I was rolling about, and
I'd had a good suck at the top of the
poker Git was so nice and cold), some
thing like pins got into my stomach all
in a minute, so set up yell as loud as
could bawl.
Ma tumbled all her coffee on the
cloth, and pa upset the gravy over his
legs but that didn't matter. / screamed
tall / got as black as / could, and ma
said g What's de matter with the
petsy-wetsy Come to mummy, de
little darling, then"
And pa said: "Why, Billy boy,
what's de matter? Come to papa s"
But / only kicked. The pins went on
sticking into me, and I howled away.
Pa rang the bell for nursie, and tried
to hold me on his lap till she came.
Then ma said
"He's hurt his little darling heddy
weddy-T know he has"
But / knew I hadn't.
elias he bumped his heddy-weddy
with the naughty old poker-woker !"
said pa.
But they never thought about pins in
my stomach. Pas and mas are SO stupid
Ma rolled me over and over, and kept
on saying
."What is it, mammals own boy I
Tell mamma all about it, then"
But how could / tell, and the pins
sticking away all the while?
Then nursie came. The minute she
saw me she stopped down and took me
up; then she said to ma:
I" Mollygrumps!"
I never knew what Mollygrumps
was before, but I suppose ma and pa
did; they set mp a howl, and pa said:
Brandy brandyl" and he ran to the
sideboard where they kept the sugar and
nice things. And ma said:
emo, no! Hadn't we better send for
the doctorg'
But, bless you, nursie knew all about
If. and she said