The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1891-07-15
THE NEW BABY.

One day last week Babe was a-setten
in my lap, and | was tellin' her story
had jest got to tlfa thrillin part of it,
when the good little boy, who always
minded his ma, had hull pail Of red
apples gin TO him. And Babe was a.
lookin' up into my face with her big
blue gray eyes a-shinin and her golden
yellow hair a-fallin' back from her little
eager, happy, u2turned face.
When all Of sudden the kitchen door
opened and Miss Pixley came in, and
before she had been there some time she
says to Babe, a-winl1in' to Inc at the
same fine:
"Your nose is broke now, young ladyr
Babe pnt her litJle fingers up to her
nose and IelG Of it, aad | WINGED to Miss
Pi4ley to not say no more, for knew
what she naant knew she meant that
Thomas .jefarson's little new baby
would crowd Babe, our Tiizah Ana's
little daughter, ont Of cur hearts.
But Miss PiXley went right on She is
an old maiden, and has had five disap-
pointnents, and some say seven, and
they have embittered her, and says she
to Babe:
Little Snow. the new baby will take
your place now in Grandmas s heart"
Babe looked troubled; on her smooth
little brow could see fall the first faint
shadow of that great black shape that
we call jealousy. Her big, sweet eyes
looked as if they was cloudin' up nicely
for tears.
And wunk severer and more vigelent
winks than | had wunk before at Miss
Pixley to stop! II ever wink spoke
them did, to stop inmegidly.
But she kept right on. crpeter,
| spoze them disappointments WAS the
cause ont. She KEEP right on, and ses
she:
you won't be grandma's baby any
more now; she has got somebody else to
love now"
And then the cloud did break into a
rainfall Of tears. Babe jest bust out
a-cryin' and snuggled down into my
arms, and laid her wet cheeks on my
bosom through the force of old custom,
and, anon! thow much like older human
creeters accordin to her size) she drew
her head away as If sayin':
II can't lay my head there any more;
if the love has gone out Of the heart it
won't rest me nor comfort me no more
to lay there"
And pride woke up in her; she was too
proud to make Il fuss, or beg for love.
How much, how much like big children!
So she sot up kinder straight in my lap,
with her pretty lips a quiverin', and the
tears a-runpin' down her cheeks.
And riz right up with Babe in my
arms and went ont of the room pretty
quick, but not vigelent.
Josiah WAS there. | wouldn't misuse
Miss PiSley OWN to the six or seven
things mentioned by me prior and be-
fore this. But | felt that must make it
right with Babe that very minute.
knew how she felt--wounded love
and pride and jealousy, etc, ETC., etc.
knew that few syllables of about
the hardest lessons of life had come to
Babe, and | must help her spell 'em;
must help her with her lesson.
So took her right into the parlor and
set down with her in the big chair, and
never said word for minute or two,
only held her clost to me and kissed
the shinin' hair that lay up against my
cheek.
She a-strugglin' at first; jealousy and
pride a-1aggin her; and she at first a-not
bein' able to hear any voices, only jest
them Of jealousy and pride--jest like
older children exactly.
But after awhile, held her SO warm
and stlddy, with my cheek a-layin' on
the pretty head, the stiddy, firm clasp
and contact sort O calmed her, and then.
anon, she drew one little arm up round
my neck, and anon the other one, and
looked down deep into her eyes, right
into the little true soul, and that little
true soul saw the truth in mine.
Words couldn't have convinced Babe
SO well as that look that she had learnt
to depend on.
Love has language that though
maybe it can't be exactly parsed and
Analysed yet it can be understood ex-
actly, entirely understood. and Babe see
that loved her
And then was the time that that
sweet little creeter put up her arms and
kissed me, and | says sort o low like,
but very tender:
Sweetheart, you know jest how much
love you, don't you?"
And then kissed her several times in
various places on her face, every one on
EN- sweet places. And then l went on
and talked dretful good to Babe about
the new baby | conided in her, told
her all about how the little new soul
had come, unknown to itself, here into
a great, 81 world, how helpless it
waz, how weak, and how we must all
help it, al - to make it feel itself at
at home Il us.
And | tired to explain it to her-how
that as ST. hal come first she owed
courtesy to tic Hewcomer, and that she
must be ralr nd willin' to neighbor
with her. . { use jest those words,
but them s.. idees.
| told her how blind the little creeter
was. and Babe, if only out Of politeness,
must try to see for her, lead her straight
over ways she knew nothin' about and
keep her from harmin' herself
low Baby snow couldn't talk for her
ST at all now. and Babe musi talk for
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