Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1878-04-04

callv.
"Just a wee, little while while"
81 will not" with increased emphs-
| sis.
John. if You don't I'll invite cousin
Mary ard her twins, and sister Lucy
! ahd her eldest bov. the one that is
named after you, to the house to stay
a week
"If YOU do, I'll burn the house over
their heads. collect the insurance, and
| fy to Europe
John, love babies as much as you
dislike them"
Its 10 use"
John. dear John. l never wanted
! to 90 any where so much, necer, two
diamond tears in her black eyes.
Five minutes, you said:"
"Dii I? | meant ten
well. ten not an instant longer,
remember" And grumbling TO him
! self What a fool am" in they
went.
A large oblong room. around which
ran raised platforms on which were TO
| be seen manv mothers and more babes.
Some Of the little ones were in baby
wagons. some in chairs. some on hob
| by-horses. some in swings, and some
in the maternal lap. There we're
/ brown babies, yellow babies, rosy bs-
/ bies, cream-colored babies, and snow
white babies blue-eyed, hazel-eyed.
/ hrown.eyed. gray eyed. black-eyed,
and gresn-eyed babies laughing, cry
i ing, pretty. ugly, bright. stupid. cross,
I jolly. serious. and mischievous babies;
/ babies Of all shapes. all sorts, all sizes,
/ and all ages-that is, from one month
I TO five years.
''Pshaw !" said Mr.. Truesx, with an
expression of disgust on his express
sive countenance. as he entered the
room and glanced hastily aDout. "fll
/ go no further, Winnie, but wait for YOU
4 here :" and he retrested into n dark
/ corner-bv-the-bye, the only obscure
corner in the hall-while his sister
tripped gayly away on tour Of in.
/ .pcction.
/ Bat rs he impatiently waited, frown-
, ing with all his might. and hoping that
Winnie would not exceed the ten min
utes he had so ungraciously accorded
fher, it suddenly dawnei on him that
somebody not entirely unconnected
with the show was in his immediate VI
cinty for not unmusical murmur, a
/ sweet-voiced mothers Groom TO her
/ baby, reached him, and turning. he saw
Young and girlish creature in wild
ow's weeds with a tiny child on her
lap.
As Mr.. Trueax turned, this Young
creature raised a pair of the most
wonderful blue eyes. frnged with the
most wonderful golden lashes, and
cast n half-shy, hnlf-appealing glance
at him.
Mr.. Trueax began 10 feel very un-
comfortable. He, the mater of women,
the despiscr of babies, shut in, as it
were. with dangerous member of
each species For 4 moment he felt
I inclined 10 dee, hut the thought Of his
pretty sister wandering disconsolatelv /
about in search OF him nipped that in
cliuation in the bud and the next /
moment the bule-eyed girl was holding
/ up the hlue-eyed baby, and saying. in
low, timid voice. shes very pretty.
Sir"
And the child was very pretty.
| Steeled as he was against the inno- /
cpnce and beauty OF chill ihood. he /
/ could not DENY that. A little angel, ,
l lacking only the wings. with bonnie /
: blue eyes like its mothers faint golden
I hair. red rosebud mouth, and chin and
cheeks like the inmost petals of pink. ,
white rose.
And just then Winnie came back.
with two cards in her hand, commence
I ing. eagerly, "Oh. John. we must vote.
( You're To vote as tell YOU. Let me
( see-"the handsomest mother, the
prettiest baby" an1 her eyes falling .
upon the wee girl being held up for
Johns approval, she pounced upon it |
at once. You loveliest Of darlings /
Why. brother John, this is the prett. |
est baby ever saw and-Good gra- |
cious ,''-droppng the baby back into
its mothers arms (from which she had 1
taken it, with a precipitancv that
must have astonished that loveliest Of !,
darlings-.'Little Red Riding-ho !"
Yes" said the girlish mother, |
Little Red Riding-hood. But, Win ,
| nie-Miss Trueax. | mean-I don't /
expect YOU to recognize me now.
Times bave 50 changed for the worse
with me Gas you have guessed, no /
doubt, seeing me here) since we wen.
TO school together, and l wore the
scarlet cloak which gained me my pet
name. and you make me your own hap
py little friend"
"Oh, indeed % said Winnie, arching
her slender neck. And then, stopping
suddenly and kissing the quivering red
lips, ALLOW me TO decide that matter
for myself. Miss Daisy Bower But of
all places in the world, to meet you at
a baby show, and with babyl Come.
tell me all about it. dear. Brother
John, you may go to the Academy
and hear your great man. and I'll stay
here and listen TO nv small woman,
and you can stop for me on your wav
back"
But Brother John never stirred
The baby had reached out her dimpled
hand and clutched his watch seal, and
wss.examining it with exceeding inter-
est telling him, m,meanwhile, in gurgling
language apparently founded on the
one word ''goo," how much she adj
mired it and he didn't want to rudely
wrest it from the little fingers, '.or
something" as Winnie would nave re-
marked; and so, as l said before, he
never stirred.
Go on, DEAR" said Winnie, seating
herself beside her new-found friend.
Don't mind John. He's regular
wolf, I'll confess, but I'll take care he
don't hurt you"
With a timid glance at the wolf,
who stepped few steps away-baby
having turned her attention tn the bird |