Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-08-10
JACK.

"A morning like this, with the SUI
shinin', and the birds a singin', anc
the posies blossoming in those beds
down there seem to chirk one up might
ily," said Mrs. lib, flirting her dust rag
vigorously. cts a pity you amt able
to be up and get peak at it. It'd de
you more good than medicine 'cording tt
my notion. There's lots of folks gone by
already, the kind that has little to do
Well, if l ever" and Mrs. Zibs poke
bonnet and the edge of her sharp nose
seemed in imminent danger of going
through the shutter, she was so inquisi.
lively eager in her inspection of some
passer by.
"It's that Hoke boy" she said pres
emily, withdrawing her head and proceed
ing to set in order the walls on the stand
IL declare he is shaver to be driving
his own pony, black one with pail
face and a-what do you call it-dog
cart; don't see why there's any need Of
giving a decent wagon such an outland
ish name! He amt more than eight
years old I'm sure, and is abou as SASSY
as they make 'em, but en- some folks
are able to make all sorts of fol-de-rols
for their children, and others are put to
their wits end to git bread for theirs,
and you can't help teelin that lots is va
rious. SoHle do seem to git all the
plums in e pudding, and others can t
even Git Whit at the crust. It's queer,
but l suppose it s right.
She gave nc an interrogatlve glance as
she spoke, then spying some uneasiness
in the little week-old morsel of humanity
who was cuddIed in my arms, she took
him away and sat down with him in the
low rocker. "You folks make an awful
fuss over him." she said meditatively,
mot that he is anything out Of the ordi-
nary run either, as I can see, but some
how, you seem to think he is wonderful.
Sposing now you had felt bad about his
coming, not knowing how he could be
fed or clothed, and s'posing nobody kissed
Or cuddleA HIM, and wondered whether
he looked like you or his father OF his
grandmother or all the rest of 'em?"
"Mrs. lib, please hand me that baby
right ay. [ want to kiss him"
II amt going to do any such thing"
said nurse peremptorily. "He's just
been fooled with enough this morning
All them big girls in the family had to
have their foolishness over him before
they went to school, and l hain't count
ed how many times you've kissed him,
He'll take it easy enough on my lap
awhile. Yeller, amt he? Well, that's
the jaunder's; it makes em sleepy too.
once saw baby just as likely for his
age as this one; but laws, he was blink
in and winkin' ay IN a miserable
sort of shanty, and nobody seemed to
want him in the world very much; he
was one Of them kind that never gifts a
Whit at the pudding. He belonged to
the Briggs Dan'l and Melindy, and the
belonging to them want much of a
blessing, for they were two of the shift
less, slac,, al avs behind hand sort of
people who never seem to know how to
take care Of themselves rightly. Their
folks had been Just so too, workin' a
little on other folks land, doing an odd
job now and then, keepln' in vittels and
shabby clothes somehow, the women get
tin cold vlttles when they washed for
the farmers wives and some of the old
clothes it want no use to make over.
Dan'l however, was the very cream of the
hull, so far as slackhanaedness and down