The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-07-29
] KENTUCKY. FRIDAY. JULY %. 1881.
Little johnnt Oh bnhfes.

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Babies amt big enuf to lick, or vott
@nd see me a pitching into 'em, L can
seh you, for L don't like 'em, but wen
you luke at one, and see 'em so little,
you say now if was to take off my cote
ana give you good thiashin' YOU
cudent help yourself, so maybe yot
van help being a nuisance, too That's q
4 sot l say wen our baby puts it's gummy
nalds INTO my face wen ime made to set
Ahu mind him, but you Jest wait till he
Egets as big as me, so it would be a fair
NE, and then see what lie do. that's
Al 1 spose | like that little feliet, like
lene tole to, but wat he puts his gtimttiy
! Inands for ia my face wen 1 kiss him ?
no ware there is a baby which is
@ts older than ouru, but no morn haf
I @ta3ig. and IL cant work asad-tok. but
], sidfdresses as that baby wears wf1de
s.ake yure head swim. It was in shop
window, and it is made of WAX
Mary, that's the house maid, when
she frs cum to live with us, one day
Uncle Ned lie was a playin' with the
baby after the luncheon, and he had the
cork of ale bottle sticken ON the cork
screw, and he was lettin' baby put it
in his mouth. Mary she cum in while
he was doin' it, and she see him pull
it ont quick, and she ran in the kitchen
as fast as she cud and brot Uncle Ned a
me, don't believe that girls got any
| thinker.
One day my father was readin' some
thing out loud which he found in the
paper about baby farmin, and old Guffer
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
| and to the farmers for seoh vile per-
pesses, cos, for his part, he didn't see
sny difference between plantin babies
Snd buryin 'em like they were dead, and
| he believed it was jes done to get rid of
| EN-, cos how cud babies come up?
There was 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 a gun, and the
woman stade at home to mind baby and
cuke the meat. On one offie dark mite
| the man badent cum home, and the
woman she knew he had got lost, and
was killed by sabbages, and ct by vile
! beest, and she was afrade. Bime by,
way in the mite, she herd something like
| alitel chile. cryiH' and a cryin' out
side in the dark, sometimes on one side
Of the house, and sometimes not, and
| she said il was a spirit wjoh had cum
for her baby, she set in the middle Of
the room and hugged her baby, and was
| frightened NOSE t0 deth. And the thing
! kept cryin' and cryin' till her blood
run cde, but baby was asleep i'll her
arms, poor thing. At las she herd a
noise It the windo, and she looked up
/ and hdlered, for she see two grate ewes
lnkin a thru the glas, like coles of fire !;
well, jts then there was a gun, for il
was panther, and the man had cum
home and shot it. But wen he went in
| tie hose, his wife dident know him,
.c&Ase. bad went mad, and she had
-ttel baby so tlte it was
- e ias.es wich is Jest alike is twins,
lHFaTdisses Jonsin she tole me an ollie
cfammer. for she said hern was twins,
wich amt SO, cos saw EN-, and one is a
girl. Maybe the other is a twin. but "A
twins no good unless its got mate its
like a pair of boots Wen one has ben
given to the poor-who wants the other?
don't kno how foxes which has twins
gits on, for there wudent be enuff things
In the house for two babies to put in
their mouths. Ny father he says babies
putin things in their mouths as a in
stinct, Coz iu a natcheral state they wud
haf to eat lots of things wich they wud
find or they wud starve, but / think
they mite olmost as well starYe to deth
as get pizened.