The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1872-1881, 1881-08-12

Babies ant big enuf 10 Yea, or you wuu
see me a-pIiching Into 'sn, can tell you.
for don't like EN-; but ven you luke q,
one and see EN- 30 little, you say nos u
! vas 10 take Of my cote and give you .
good thrashin' you cudeni help yourself.
80 maybe you cant help being q nuisance,
too. That's wot | say wen our baby puts
is gummy hands into ny face ven line
made to ss, and mind HIN. but you jet
wait I'LL be gets AZ big A. me, so II would
be a fair Ste. and then see What lie do,
that's all, spo.e like that little teller.
like line tole 10, but 90, he puts bis gum
my hands for in my face ven ! hiss hin :
no ware there 10 baby shich Il lots
older thar ourn, but no morn hat 90 BIG,
and II cant work and tok. but sech dress
e. a. that baby wears vude make yure
head swim. II vas in . shop window, and
il l. made Of var.
Mary, thst's the hodsemaid, sen she
hn cum TO live with u. one day Uacls
Ned hs va. s-plsyin' With the b-by after
the ldncheoa, snd he had the cork Of .
ale bottle s,ieken on the oorkscrs~. and he
"a. a.ls,iin' baby pa, Il in his mouth.
Mary she cum In whils he uss s-doin' Il,
and shs see him pull Il out quick. and abe
ran In the kitchen AZ i.st AZ she euds AID
bro, Uaele Ned a lunblsr on tray.
tween you aud me. don't believe that
girl. got any thinker.
One day my father vas resdin' some
thing out loud which he found 10 the paper
about baby f.rmia', and old Gufisr Peters,
wich vas there, herd till father got done,
aud he aid he vsnt In for Law 10 keep
the squires from lessin' their land 10 the
farmers for sech vile psrpessss, Cos for his
part he didn't see any difference between
plsntin babies and buryin EN- like they
were dead, and he believed II vas jss, done
TO get rid Of 'sm, COS how euds babies
come upl
There vas q man and his wife and their
lillle baby and lhsy lived BY thsirsslyss
in the woods. ten bUeJred thousand miles
from any house. The man he hunted dees
With a gun, add the woman siade at home
To mind the baby and euks the meat. Ga
one ollie dark mite the man baden, cum
home, aud the woman she knew he had got
los, and was killed BY asbagss and ct BY
a vile beest. and she Was sfrsds. Bime-by,
way in the mite. she herd soaasthing like q
liIel chile, s-eryin' and s-cryin outside in
the dark, sometimes on oss side Of the
house and sCnslins- Dot. and she aid Il
vi. q spini sieh had Gun iOr hsr baby.
She o., 10 the middle q The room and hug
ged her baby, and vas frightened nose 10
ds,h. And the ihiss hep, eryia' snd e
eryin' till her blood run cole, but baby vas
.sleeP In hsr arms, poor thing. Al las
she herd a noise Al the windo. and she
looked up and hollsrei, for she see two
CRATE eyes lukin in thru the glss. like coles
Of hp. Well, just then there vas q gun,
for !, was panther. and the man had cum
home and shot Il. Bat wen be vent In
the house his wife didat kno~ bin, Coz
abe had yea, mad. and shs had Rugged the
litsl baby 30 lite !, s4s dead
Two babies wieh 10 Jest alike IL twins;
but Misses Jonsin she tOle me an ofls
erammer, for she ssid hern was twins, wich
Amt 50, COS saw EN-, and one Is "a girl.
Mayb be the other Is = twin. but a twins no
good unless i,s got a mate. It's like . pair
Of bo'as ven one has ben given 10 the poor
who wanis the otherY | don't no how
fOkss vieh has tvin, gifts on. for there
wudent be enud things In the house for
two babies to put In their mouths. Ny
father he says babies putin things in
their mouths Is instinct, COS in . match.
eral state they wud hat to eat lots Of things
wieh they wud 6nd, or they wud s,srvs;
but ] think they mite olmost a. we'll s,srvs
to deih as get Pissned.-lBsnsI
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