The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1894-03-25

puckered up his mouth just like a woman
ana said in "a squeulty voice, Dear little
angel and made b'lieve pat 1t. Tie must
! have polled u instead, for 1t set up yell
ng Ike bloody murder.
Then Swpes got awful mad, and he
knocked Ned down nat. with one hand,
and strStted ON ter the office, with the
rest OF ms following him,
WHEN he got there, he dropped the
Kid Inter a chair, and told the boss how
they wouldn't take the child, and didn't
seem Ter know nothing about 1t,
Take IT back TO the woman then
~ Don't Know Where she lives an.
swered Swipes, She had black veil
on, so / didn't see her face and she did
not give any name'-and here's the Kid
and what shall | do with it|
Take care Of st somehow can't be
bothered, and he began 70 write; leaving
Swipes with the baby on his hands
"Well we tended her all that day, and
kept a-hoping the woman would come ter
take her back. when she found II want
where she sent 1t. but she didn't come.
So long as we trotted IT, and kept II
a-moving, IL didn't cry none, and once II
laughed right out. SO between as all we
"Swipes was a-golng ter give It baked
beans for dinner, but the woman at the
bakery said babies had ter have warm
milk, so Swipes bought a quart. and We
had ter get a spoon ter feed IL with. Ana
Ned--he was real meek after that knock.
ing dOwn-he held the pan while Swipes
did the feeding. and MORN half o. that
milk got spilled. He got ~ all over the
kids dress. and once, when he want
noticing, the kid gave a jump. and hit
the pan and spilled the milk all down
Swpes leg and onto the floor.
1T was heaps o fun only twas kind
er tough on Swipes, though the rest of us
tried 20 help him the best we could.
when night come, the boss said we'd
better take the baby ter some sylum. but
we kind er greed between ourselves we'd
better keep II another dey. fore packing
It off. so Swipes toted 1t home. with
newspaper around 81 as folks wouldn't
guess what he'd got.
Him and me bunk together. and we
didn't exactly know what we was ago
ing ter do with that baby cause II we
put II in the bed, 'twould roll out and get
hurt. and there want nothing at all that
would do for a cradle. such as Swipes
said she ought ter have. So Swipes he
went down stairs and borrowed a great,
big wash boiler Of Mrs. Murphy, but he
cause he didn't want ter git laughed at
too much.
Wen, sir, we damned a piller inter the
bottom of th-t boiler, and then We laid
the Kid In. and she was snug as could be.
And we covered her up with a couple o.
towels and a piller case The towels was
pretty dirty, but the baby was dirty. too,
80 IL din't matter much
Then we took a rome and strung Il
through the handles and nailed the ends
into the walls. so the boiler swung 6ne as
could be; and we took turns hitting IT,
til the kid dropped on ter sleep
we slept good. but woke up by the
KIDS yelling. We gave II some more
milk. ana then Swipes said he guessed
we'd better wash It's face Didn't neither
Of us want ter. 50 we tossed coppers. and
he had ter. Oh Jimmy! twas iarles
''Swipes took his handkerchief and
kinder made dab at the Kids face. but
the dirt stuck on, so Nially he lust had
ter scrub OF course the kid yelled, and