The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1884-04-26
A CHILDKILLEDBY FRIGHT.
a Sad Scene at the Death Bed of a
Little Girl.

a Sad Scene at the Death Bed Of a
Little Girl.
Few people seem to properly est
mate the wrong Of frightening children.
Nearly every household has it's ''ugly
man" or its "great old bear" This
terrible old man and this great old
bear are powerful factors in nursery
discipline. "Come along here, now"
q mother or nurss will .ny to n child.
land let me put you to bed" II don't
want to 8" now" the child replies.
"You'd better come on here now. or
I'll tell the nely man TO come and take
you away. There he comes now"
This has the intended effect. and tho
child trembling in fear submits at once
and goes to bed. probably to zoe in
Imagination all kinds Of horrible
faces.
Tho sad death Of a little girl, which
occurred recently, shows what a strong
impression these ''boosers" make on
the minds of children. The little girl
was a beautiful child, aud every one ut
the fashionable boarding house where
parents were spending tho summer
months loved her with that purity of
affection which a child SO gently, yet
80 strongly inspires. She would stand
at the gate and clap her hands with
g!ee when her father came todinner, and
when he would take heron his sh ,nld-
er she would sllont and call to every
one to look how high shewas. One day a
LANCE shaggy dog came into the yard,
and when she ran to him ard held q,
flower to his nose. he growled and turn
cd away. She was terribly frightened.
and the black nurse. who stood near.
was not slow in making mental note of
the impression the dog had made. Sew
eral nights afterward, when bedtime
came, the child was unusually wakeful.
"Yer'd better come heah an git in
die bed" the nurse commanded.
* don't want to-
All right, den. Use gwine out and
call dat ole dog what growled At yer.
When he comes an in's yer ousen de
bed he'll bite yer head off,
Tho little girl grew dsathly pale.
'Nuthin' would suit dat dog better
dan ter git q chance at yer. 'Tother
night he cotch a little girl across de
road and eat her all up
The child screamed. !
Some on heah. den AN I wont let
him ketch YER !
The poor little thing obeyed. Her
father and mother were at an entertain
ment, and there was 10 appeal from
the negro woman's decision. When
morning came the little girl did not
awake with her usual Good mornin'
papa and mama.' She had tossed AL
night. and a hot fever had settled upon
her. She grew rapidly worse. aud the
nest day the pbysicisn declared that
there was NO hope for her. She be-
came delirious aud struggling would
exclaim
Dog shan't have mama's little girl y
1t was a sorrowing circle that sur
rounded her death-bed. The parents
were plunged into a grief which none
but the hearts Of fathers and mothers
can feel. Her last moments were a Sc.
ries of struggles. How hard the beau
tifdl car die: She wildly threw up her
little hands and shrieked
go away. dog
A gentle hand wiped the death froth
from her lips.
Again she struggled and shrieked :
Dog shan't %have.'-bot she died ere
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Gazette. *~ |.
by Is
New ORLEANS, March "a, 1884.
of the SENTINEL.
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tie State of Louisiana, located at New
Orleans, has been organized for the
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