Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1884-01-08

THE BAD BOY AND A BABY

THE BAD Roy AND A BABY.
The Latest story Told the Grocer
Tiles 20 Help y Calf and Gets Kick
ed On the Lip.
Peek's Sun.
"There, now, have got YOU" said
the grocery man to the bad boy as he
came in with his lip cut, and looked In
the glass 10 nee II 1t was growing to-
gether. Now you sit down here while
! call policeman. saw you going
down an alley this morning with q tin
pail and a bundle. and believe you are
one of those fire.bugs, and that You had
q pail of kerosene and some kindling,
and that you have vet fire with slow
match that will break out pretty soon.
Oh. am on TO you. and the grocery
man looked easy.
Well, have kindled fire." said
the bad boy, as he rubbed some vase,
line on his lip, and when II breaks out,
and becomes warm, instead Of calling
out the hire department 10 will call forth
prayers from poor, heart-broken wo.
man, and make the smiles of joy light up
her face, and don't you forget 1t.
Where did you set that fire." asked
the grocery man, as he began TO relent.
Tell me about this iucendiary per.
formance.
Well you know that girl that ran
away from our ward last year, and
married that dude who thought she
was rich ? He deserted her, but she
came back here about month ago, but
she was not well enough to get work In
the store, and she has had hard time.
| used to 60 TO school with her, and
the other day met her on back street
and she asked me for two shilliDgs to
buy some bread and milk, and gave it
TO her, and then followed her to her
home. She lives in a room over a meat
market, and ali the furniture she has
got wouldn't I'll play house for your
little baby girl.
II guess half the time all the meat
she has il the smell she gets from the
meat Down stairs, but when they are
fr, ing lard In the butcher shop the
smell is real strengthening. Well, sir,
when went into the room she was
feeding lee.e bit of baby some
bread and milk, and crying
and laughing all at once. BY gosh,
| II broke me all up. She had pawned
Everything she had for something for
the baby TO eat, and she was In pretty
bad shape, The baby eat and laughed,
and went 70 sleep, and then she told
me all her troubles, how the dude had
gone back on her, aud how she had
worked making shirts at ten cents
m ,,;o t,,u - harol.1f nd hnhy
was darn glad that baby did not
look like The dude. Well, sir, that
poor, pale girl, crying there in that old
bare room, was too much for Hennery,
and went out and called our gang of
boys together, us boys that told you
had been saving wood for widders.
told them about this girl, and being
the boss Of the gang gave them fifteen
minutes to raise two collars apiece, and
before the tine was up they all came
down with the money.
Then divided it up and told one
boy TO 60 and get two dollars worth Of
| coal aud another one, he wasa com
mitteG gu biscuit and tea and sugar,
and ! WAS lightning on baby clothes
and milk, and the bundle you saw me
carry dawn the alley was flannel cloth.
es our baby has kicked herSef out of,
and il want no kind ing wood for in,
| cendiary fires, and the Kerosene you
| thought had WIS milk, regular old
COW milk, and none If your milk wagon
stuff. We'll, you'd dide to see us fel
| lows get things up stairs, and surprise
that poor little woman, My,chum built a
fire, and yon ought to have seen me
dress that baby. used to be mad when
ma made ne put clothes on the baby,
~ home. when she wanted To do up her
hair, but now | am glad Of IL, cause
can get in my work Oh little, cold, poor
babies, and make them think ! am an
old nurse from Nurseville
'"Tht tired lirrlc mother Just sat right
down on tn" floor and cried to see us
| boys take hold Of running the house,
and | was afraid she would food the
butcher shop below, 30 took the baby
when had got the warm tlannels on II,
and 1t looked surprised at being 50
warm, as though something had hap
pened to it,and Iput il in mamma'slap,
and she Rugged it till thought she
would bust II, sure. but mothers know
just how tight tc hug, don' they? We
fixed her up in good shape, and each
borrowed "A blanket off our own beds
at home and took them to her, and |
guess she is the hap piest little woman
in this town, but wish she would not
cry 80.
II breaks something inside my vest
| when | see woman cry, AMI feel as
though my gall was all running out.
Well, MS boys have took solemn oath
| to be that woman's gardeene-how do
you spell that? Anyway, we are going
to he her pertector, or boss, this winter,
until she gets able to work and earn her
living, and that woman is going 10 hav"
all she can lay her jaws to, and the baby
is going to be dressed as well as any
baby in this town, as long as mas baby
clothes hold out. tell you, baby
with four bad boys laying for it, to
watch that it don't suffer, isn't in dan
ger of freezng,and after this If you see
me going down that alley a night load.
ed with anything, from nursing bottle
TO a barrel of -four, don't give me away.
And If you hear of any babies that's
lost their cud, and don't know where
the next meal is coming from, you just
inform US boys and We will fill the baby
so full, of cut feed that it cant zip. Say,
how would some of them dried apples
do for our baby?"
ooh, get out" said the grocery man,
you ought to know that dried apples
would split a baby wide open. What
ever you do, don't ever give a baby
dried apples. Now here are some nice
prunes which would be splendid for
baby. They are a little wormy, bur
prunes opsn the pores and develop the
voice. Have a couple of pounds 90
Nav, | don't wan. any prunes.
This isn't prune baby, Mas baby is
prune baby, guess, cause its pours
are open all the time, and it has got
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