AN UNWILLING NURSE.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 437, 20 February 1909, Page 11

AN UNWILLING NURSE.

A: girl friend of -mine-h'ad : :V rather '.funny experience:-:Tvhile:.travelling express 'to ; Melborirne\lMt':,woek)'., says ,a 'Sydney '..Writer. Having as a . fellow-passenger a',:lady: ;- and baby, : she proffered, her' help in amusing the infant, who took vory kindly to her. At Moss Valo, a. few hours' journey from Sydney, the mother left: tho carriago to procure some ! warm: 'water, .and-asked -hor ..'travelling companion':!tb an J ,ey^''otf 'the-,baby; ; who failed:to. return, before the'.'tfiiin s&rte.d;iand .she was left with the, sleeping infant, alone in:'thesearriage;.' Thinking' that the parent :'might-:haVe ..entfe^dCone..' -i' carriages •along'vtbe; . £h6* child, ■'arid' 'hastily .'.inspected VeacE/.V'caimage/.vViii'; 'searchOf ;'the : ..missing:.'inother.'. Her story _soon- became- known,-and .the, Carriage .filled, j.with--woiildybesympathisers;" ~,-.'lt!s'" a'.:'pure- : case - of;* abandonment; / anfl -you'll: be'- sorry you over set eyes on that kid," -said one old Woman, and others' shook their • beads : with:"sympathetic; looks',; towards' my' friend, I who. was "beginning; to/feel a -trifletnervdus I herself/ :at ' the - responsibility j'so /'/' suddenly I ;thrust.-, her. To her;-great;- relief,: ; the' baby slept'on; and .when.the train stopped at -the., next" station,'- nearly van hour later, ■the '.'sta,tionmaster: t<»k ;pbssekio'n' : .of : .the' : in- : faht;,and ..its./ telongingß,;.having'-had ;a'; wire' from :tho anxious: parent, ..who was following • by the .second division of the'express, and who' begged; them 'to look affer her. baby at tho refreshment-rooms till her arrival. ". ;y. V'