Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1907-12-28
HoSc He Became
A Sfepfofber.
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as guileleSs as the baby itself. Walter
had gone to the station to bid some
friends goodby. AS the train began to
move slowly out and Walter was rails
ing his hat again and again to a party
on it, shaking hands and handkerchiefs
at him, a pretty young woman prettily
dressed touched him on the arm and,
handing him a pasteboard box, said
hurriedly:
do please see that this is delivered
/ must get on this train"
Walter took the box, and the lady,
Selling the guard rail as it passed, step
ped on the car and was carried away.
Then Walter looked at the box. 1t was
the size of a shirt probably had
been a shirt box-and without wrapper
or string. At one end he noticed a hole
half an inch in diameter. The weight
was about ten pounds. But what star
tied the young man was that there was
no address. Then he was more startled
still at a sound that came from with
In. 1t was like a child's toy lamb
bleating. Walter removed the cover,
and there, buried in flannels and lace,
was a newly born baby.
One of the station men was passing,
and Walter called to him.
Say, here's box a young woman
who has gone out ON that train handed
me, asking me to see that it was deliv-
cred. There isn't any address on it."
whats in it?"
"a baby"
1.-The dickens you sayr'
I'm going to turn it in. Just take it
to the station master, will your"
Not much | won't. You can't play
that game on me-"
The man went on Walter carried the
box to the station masters office,
where he told his story and requested
that the official take the box off his
hands. 1t had been turned over to him
fraudulently in the station and natural
ly fell to the railroad company for at
tention.
young man," said the station mas
ter, ''if you want to get rid of your
baby you'd better leave it on the steps
of founding asylum"
at isn't my baby"
"Can't receive it." And the man
turned to other duties.
Walter went into the waiting room.
The toy lamb bleating began again.
Walter took the cover off the box to
stop the noise, which was attracting
the suspicious attentions of waiting
passengers, and a couple of women
caught sight of a pair of tiny arms
fighting the air They came and
peeped into the box
la sakes," said one, "the dear little
thing! Just think of carrying a baby
that wayt'
"Y' ought to be ashamed o. your
SELF" said the other to Walter. "The
childs hungry. Where is its mother?"
"Gone in the last train" And again
Walter told the story.
HAS she deserted your asked a wo-
man who came up only in time to hear
the end of it.
That's cock and bull yarn" said |
another. Its a contemplate way Of
trying to get rid of your poor helpless
offspring"
Walter fled, called a cab and took the
baby to his own bachelor quarters.
There he called upon his landlady, who
procured a bottle, warmed some milk.
fed the child and put it to bed-in Wal |
ter's room. Leaving the door ajar so
that the landlady could hear the little
one cry, Walter went out and applied
at the founding asylum to have 1t
taken in. In the first place they were
full, and in the second they did not
propose to have man put baby upon
them that he was abundantly able to
take care of himself, under pretense
that it was not his child. Walter went
back to his room and with the help of
the landlady continued to take care
Of the founding from day to day.
month to month.
Walter said nothing to any one about
the baby. He was expecting to be-
come engaged and dreaded lest some
inkling of his having a child in his
keeping might get out and his story be
disbelieved. One day his married sis
ter, Mrs. Brown, called at his room to
see him. With hereHas Miss Charles,
to whom he was engaged Mrs. Brown
AhSAoISo Ol SOlAS up W w diler y room
and taking his fiancee with her to see
what bachelors quarters were like.
The landlady, as instructed. guarded
the way, but Mrs. Brown was a deter
mined woman and forced il. In COM
pany with Miss Charles, she entered
walters room, and there asleep on the
bed, was the baby. Miss Charles went
home and wrote to Walter for an ex-
PLANTATION. OF course his tale was not
believed, and the engagement was bro
ken
Walter had standing advertisement
in newspaper that the lady who had
left a baby in box with a gentleman
at the station could have it no proof
of property required-by addressing B.
472, Office of the paper. The day after
the breaking of his engagement, while
he was in his room fniShinxy bis toilet