THE OLD BABY

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1504, 11 March 1887, Page 3

THE OLD BABY

Poor "old baby;" he hun^ about the hall and on ihe stairway, and everybody snubbed him and said : " Oh, y <ur nose is oat of joint," and he was told to be quiet or it would disturb "new baby," end he was sent off to bed alone, and nobody coddled him or kissed him to sleep. His papa told him he had a little angel brother, but he wanted to be angel brother hlmaelf, and ho ja'at hated new baby. Bat one day when the nurse was making gruel In Another part cf the room he wra told that he might look at the bundle that lay m his own orib. All he could see was a cross red face and fisticuffs, Ha t a thought struck old baby. A crnel, w'olced thought : revenge ! ! He leans over the bundle, he watoheß the pink fingers unolonch, he pats his rosebud mouth down stealthily, he bites ! There is a great cry from new baby, the nurse drops the gruel, all tho family fly to the resoue, and the bad old baby is Bummarily bonncad. And he wanders about heartbroken, and at laßt goes and gets lost m a cave of gloom And he ia r>f some conspquenoe after ail, when they cannot find him, until someone looks under the hall table, where he is asleep with a very dirty face — " A smile on his lip and a tear In his eye." Poor "old baby! 1