The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-08-05
Little J0hnnY ON Babies.

q Babies amt big enuf to lick, or you
1wud see me pitching into 'en, I can
tell You, for / don't like 'en, but wen
you like at one, and see 'en SO little,
you say how if was to take off my cote
and give you good thrashin' you
cudent help yourself, SO maybe you
can'tihelp being nuisance, too. Il hats
wot ] say wen our baby puts its gummy
hands into my face Wen ime made t6-set
and mind him, but you jest wait till he
gets as big as me, so it would be a fair
tite, and then see what lie do, that's
all l., I spose I like that little Teller, like
ime tole to, but wat he puts his ,gummy
hands for In my face wen I kiss him
mo ware there is a baby which is
lots older than ourn, but no morn hat
so big, and it cant work and tok, but
sech dresses as that baby, wears wude
make yure head swim. It was in shop
window. and it is made of wax. -E9
Mary, that's the house maid, when
she frs cum to live with us, one day
Uncle Ned he was d playin' with the
baby after the luncheon, and he had the
cork of a ale bottle sticken on the cork
screw, and he was lettin' baby put it
in his mouth. Mary she cum in. while
he was dom it, and she see him pull
it out quick, and she ran in the kitchen
as fast as she cud and brot Uncle Ned a
tumbler on tray. Tween you and
me, don't believe that girls got any
! thinker. l4aa7F"/ @ h@l3@l4 4ssT
80 One day my father was readin' some
thing out loud which he found In the
paper about baby farmin, and old Cutter
Peters, wich was there, herd till father
got done, and he said he went In for "a
law to keep the squires from leasin' their
land to the farmers for sech vile per.
posses, COS, for his part, he didn't see
any difference between plantin babies
and buryin 'em like they were dead, and
he believed it was ies done to get rid Of
'em, cos how cud babies come up? I Fa0t
There was a man and his wife and
their little baby and they lived by their
selves in the woods ten hundred thou
sand miles from any house. The man
he hunted deers with q gun, and the
woman stade at home to mind baby and
euke the meat. On one ofae dark mite
the man hadent cum home, and the
woman she knew he had got lost, and
was killed by sabbages, and ct by q vile
beest, and she was afrade. Bimel by,
way in the mite, she herd something like
litel chile. q cryin' and q cryin' out
side in the dark, sometimes on one side
of the house, and sometimes not, and
she said it was a spirit wich had cum
for her baby, she set In the middle of
the room and Rugged her baby, and was
frightened nose to deth.. And the thing
kept cryin' and q cryin' till her blood
run cole, but baby was asleep in her
arms, poor thing. At las she herd a
noise at the windo, and she looked up
and hollered, for she see two CRATE eyes
lukin in thru the glas, like coles of fire /;
well, jus then there was a gun, for it
was a panther, and the man had cum
home and shotiit. But wen he went in
the house. his wife dident know him,
cos she had went mad, and she, had
Rugged the llittel baby SO title. it was
Y dead. 0lt HG4.laa438 SD fqa
1.-Two babies wich is jest alike is twins,
but Misses Jonsin she tole me an off1e
crammer, for she said hern was twins,
-Wlcn anu SO, COS Il saw en-, anu OHS - d
girl. Maybe the other is "a twin, but a
twins no good unless its got amate its
I Ikea pair of boots wen one has ben
given to the poor-who wants the other
I don't kno how foxes which has twins
gifts on, for there wudent be enqff things
in the house for two babies, to put in
their mouths. Ny father he says babies
putin thingsin their mouths as a in
stinct, cos IN .natcheral state they wud
hat to eat lots Of things Wich they wtid
+ find or they wud starye, but I think
they mite olmost as well starye to deth
as, get pizened. -Bag0f. = III .' CO. 80 bo,