Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1903-02-06
TOMMY'S SOLILOQUY.
HE DON'T LIKE THE APPEARANCE
OF A BROTHER BABY.

'hAS FdehdyS, tO VdiOGn Lacy VINO
Lived Next Door-he Checks the Cyclon,
Of Grief by Returning the Baby to Its Par
ents-Hopes That He May Be Some Fun
When he Grows Older.
My name is Tommy; that is, it..
Tommy when it amt Thomas; some.
times it's Tom for short. I've got
another name Dad calls me when
get into mischief. 1t is Iu.in-corg.
incorg'Dle. 1 don't like that name
it's too hard to say and it sounds like
it meant l was bad. 1 asked pap
what he called me that funny name
for and he laughed and said it was the
only name he could think OF at times
l should think Tom would be easier
to say, or Tommy, or even Thomas.
Mamma never calls me In-in; she
calls me her little man and darl.
ing; but my sister Kate calls me
the awfullest names you ever heard,
such as little torment, plague, imp
and lots more. She thinks she's
smart cause she is eighteen and got q
beau. It makes me 80 mad the way
she pokes me out of the room every
times he comes. / like Jack aud he
brings me candies sometimes, but
Kate won't give me time to ask for
them before she hustles me out OF the
room. / hid behind the sofa the other
night and pinched her leg, and she
yelled like there was wild Indians after
her. She pulled me out and boxed
my ears and put me out OF the room.
l am going to put toad in her bed
some day, when l find great, big
warty one.
We have got baby, that is mamma
and the nurse has; me and papa don't
take no stock in him. He is smaller
than Frisky, my dog, and he's red and
amt got no hair or teeth and cries
awful. Nurse says ought to love
my little brother; but l don't. only
wish he was big enough to fight. He
shook his fist at me the other day
when was looking at him. He
makes my mamma sick and l can't
jump in bed mornings any more and
the nurse boxed my ears the other day
because stuck her false curls on the
baby's head with mucilage.
The other day tried my best to
get rid of my brother.
There is real nice lady lives next
door to us, her name is Miss Morris.
She amt got no baby, only a kitten
and she amt got that now, cause 1
dropped it down the we'll to see if it
could swim. l asked her would she
be glad If she had little baby brother,
and she said she would be 90 happy.
So 1 thought il I took our baby over
there and laid it on her bed, she'd
think God had put it there, and she'd
be so happy and keep it. Then
mamma would get we'll and have
time to play with me. So when
the nurse went down in the man,
kitchen to get cup of tea and
ma was asleep. l took the baby
out OF the cradle; he was asleep too,
and carried him out the back door
and crawled through the back fence |;
there is . picket off. only dropped
him once, that was when l was getting
through the fence. l had to poke him
through first and I lost my balance
and we both fell. The baby rolled a
little way and cried some, but l
wrapped his blanket around him and
he began to suck his fist. l went in
the back door for I didn't want Miss
Morris to see me. l took him up
stairs and laid him on her bed, and
then run home. Mamma was still
asleep and nurse was just coming up
stairs. / wandered what she would
say when she found the baby was gone /;
so l sat down on the doorstep and
listened. Pretty soon I heard her
shrek like the house was afire and
she came running out into the hall
crying.
1.-THE baby has been stolen! Send
for the police! Send for Mr.. Murry.
send for the doctor, Oh, Oh, Oil"
She made more fuss than Miss
Morris did when I drowned her kitty.
It was lots of fun to see every body
running around and crying and look.
ing everywhere for that baby. Pretty
soon papa came home and / kinder
got frightened when saw how white
he looked, and he never noticed me
at all but went right up to mamma's
room. / followed him and when l
saw mamma crying like everything, I
cried too and wished ! hadn't touched
the old baby, but was afraid to tell
where it was for fear papa would whip
me. It made me feel dreadful. /
didn't think mamma would care so
much about little no-account baby.
1 slipped away and ran over to Miss
Morris to tell her guessed I'd have
to take the baby back, they was feel
ing 80 bad over to my house, and 1
would give her Frisky if she'd let me
have him back. I went all over the
house but she won't to home. 1 guess
she had gone down town. The baby
was crying just awful. wrapped him