The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1898-08-20

do you really consider tho girl prctty1'i
"Wkere's baby'" was the ready inter.
rogatory.
"She is here, mamma, creeping about"
Take her up then. I won't have her
second frock dirted to-day. Take her up,
and walk about with her. Letting the
child make herself in a mess like that,
just for laziness to take her up In your
arms
"She was crying so, mamma, when I
carried her about, and she is quite quiet
now"
II don't care whether she is quiet or
not. You take tho child up. and walk
about with her aud amuse her."
All this was screamed-in that soothing
ly-delightful, shrill, rasping voice which
SO many British matrons affect when In
the shelter of their household-from an
upper window in the Coastguard officers
house, for the benefit of Winnie Cacrlyon,
as she leant over the little whitewashed
wall that enclosed the gravelled space in
front, and for the benefit of any chance
lo;terer who might be at hand.
There was non apparently-nothing to
listen to Mrs. Caerlyon's hfgh-pitched,
tuneless voice, as she screamed forth her
AAuAuhOSos 5sDAO FIG LNAlLC bCu-So1AoS w
whom perhaps she unconsciously impaired
lessons in vocal music. as they ceaselessly
swooped, and dived, and scared, and
shrieked around the craggy cliffs.
Winnie, aroused from her lounge by the
low white breast-work that hemmed In
the little yard or terrace before the house,
ing the sca-birds' flight, the tossing of the
f,,,&1, x,~o~kDl x nv IVA To- TIM oo1l
March Sunlight. and the fitting lights
and cloud shadows out on the great rip
ping expanse OF ocean before her-Win-
mics only relaxation, amusement or pleas.
ure in this world, but one-that one her
tri-weekly visit to Roseworthy-took up
the baby o%bediently. who resisted, as she
did SO, with loud peevlsh cries; but perse.
verance in kisses and carcsses, and show.
ing the gulls, and the ''prettkspretty sea-"
and the beautiful little Ships stilled
baby's lamentations at length. and she
sat up in her sisters arms, in her little
blue hood and cloak, like "a beautiful lit
tie dearie,n as Winnie said.
This child-the youngest. and frailest
and sickliest of the seventh had almost
entirely fallen to Winnic's lot to nurse and
care for by day and night, from her step.
mothers prolonged in%disposition at her
birth and other causes. Winnie Ind '.got
the way of managing, feeding, and sootn.
ing the little one better than any one else;
hence washing. dressing, nursing and put,
ting to sleep were all left entirely to the
patient loving hands that never shook or
slapped the wailing fretful little creature
las its mother did In q At Of temper some.
~times-that were always ready by day or
night to take baby"
The young girls rest, leisure, amuse-
ments, were all curtailed or cut of on ac-
count Of .baby"-poor little fifteen
,nonths-old L1ouie-who turned her piteous
little face and outstretched arms away
from every one to "Eenie.Dn Sister .sEenie''
sacrificed herself ceaselessly and patient
~, because of the love, the strong, tender,
incipient mother-loye, that rose above all
self-consideration in her true womanly
nature, for the helpless babe dependent on
her.
"Winifred! Winifred, I say!n
She hastened back from her wearisoms
parade, with the baby in her arms, to thu
upper window and Its screamed mandates
q second time.
'.Take the baby down on the rocks with
the rest. You shouldn't leave those child
rem down there so long by themselves!
And mind you don't let them wet their
feet.',
Yes. mammal
HAS Sarah Matilda got her brown jacket
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