New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1896-01-29
he Yaller Baby.

some people 90, Nv course tney le8 ne.
cessityjust as men are. w course
if there warn't no wimmin folks there
wouldn't he no men folks leastwise
that's what the medikil books say. But
I never wuz much on discussin' humin
economy; what I hev allus thought md
SAID that wimmin folks wuz kind ny
luxury, md the best kind, too. Maybe
it's because haint he'd much to do with
'em that I'm sot on 'em. Never did gel
real we'll acquainted with more'n three
or four NV 'em in all my life; seemed
like it was meant that / shouldn't hex
'em round me as most men hev. Mother
died when WIZ little tyke, an Ant
Mary raised me till, I wuz big enuff t.
make my own llvin'. Down here in thu
Southwest, you see, most NV the girls il
boys; there amt none Nv them civilizin
influences folks talk uv'-nothin' bu
J flowers md birds md such things as poe
try tells about. So kind Nv growed VI
with the curis notion that wimmin folk
wuz too good for our part Nv the coun
try, md hewitt quite got that notio1
out'n my head yet.
One time-wall, reckon 'twuz abou
four years ago. got letter frum oil
Col. Sibley to come up to Saint Loue.
md consult with him'bout some stool
interests we he'd together. Railroad ira
vellin' wuz no new thing to me. I het
been prutty prospe1ous,-hed got pas
hevin' to ride in caboose md git out a
every stop to punch up the steers.
He'd money in the Hoost'n bank nc
use to go to Tchicargo oncet year; het
met Fill Armer md shook hands will
HIM, md oncet the city papers he'd col
ume article about my bein' millionaire
Nv course 'twarn't so, but Teller kline
Nv likes that sort Nv thing, you know.
The mornin' after I got that letter
frum Col. Sibley started for Saint Lou
ey. I took bunk in the Pullman car
like I he'd been doin' for six years past
md I reckon the other folks must hey
thought wuz heap Nv man, for eve
ry haf-hour give the niger hat dol
lar to bresh me off. The car wuz full w
people,-rich people, too, reckon, fol
they wore good cloes md criticized the
scenery. Jest across from me there WI;
lady with a big, fat baby,-the prutti
est woman he'd seen in month u,
Sundays; and the baby why, doggont
my skin, when I wuzn't payin' money tt
the niger darned if didn't set there
watchin' the big fat little cuss, like hi
wuz the only baby ever seen. I ain
much Nv hand at babies, cause hahn
seen many Nv 'em, md when it comes tt
handlin' 'em-why, that would break
me all up, md like $ not It would break
the baby all up too. But it has allu'
been my notion that mex to the wimmln
folks babies wuz jest about the nices
things on earth. So the more I looked
at that big, fat little baby settin' in it,
mothers lap 'cross the way, the more
| wanted to look; seemed like Iwuz hoo
dooed by the little tyke; md the frs
thing I knew there wuz water in my
eyes; don't know why it is, but it allus
makes me kind NV slop over to set nc
watch baby cooin' md playin' in it,
mothers Jap.
"Look a hyar, Sam,' says to the mig
ger, ''come hyar md bresh me off again
Why amt you tendin' to bizniss?"
But it didn't dc no goffd It all; per.
tendin' to be cross with the niger mis-
fool the other folks in the car, but il
didn't fool me. I wiz dead stuck or
that baby gol durn his pictur'! Anc
there the little tyKe set in its mothers
lap, doublln' up its fists md tryin' tc
swaller 'en, md talkin' like to its moth.
er in lingo couldn't understan', but
which the mother could, for she talked
back to the baby in soothin' lingo which
I couldn't understand, but which liked
to hear, md she kissed the baby nc
stroked its hair md petted it like vim.
min do.
It made me mad to hear them othel
folks in the car criticism the scenery nc
things. A mans in mighty poor biz.
ness, anyhow, to be lookin' at scenery
when there's woman IN sight, "a wo.
man and baby!
Prutty soon-oh, maybe in hour Iol
two the baby began to fret md worrit
Seemed to me like the little crltter wu7
hungry. Knowin' that there wuzn't
no eatin'-heuse this side NV Bonneville
I jest called the train boy, md says l te
him: "Hev you got any victuals thai
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