THE ADVENTURES OF A SURPLUS BABY.

Dunstan Times, Issue 616, 6 February 1874, Page 3

THE ADVENTURES OF A SURPLUS BABY.

A London correspondent gives an ■ amu | sing history of a v i.jciqyji madventure, lady toqk her youngest; to a 1 doct.-r’/fo vaccination, and sat down in the int’ room. Presently there entered arutli lady with a baby, and a friendly converse; tion ensued. At length the now coin asked the first to hold her baby for a m> meut while she .went into .the air, as th idea of having hj t baby vaccinated madi her feel faint. The lady took the strait ger’s baby. But the stranger returned not. and at length the lady was reminded by the Doctors so vaut that the must go. In vain she protested that she had a baby too many, she was told that she could no; stay there, and was o'dijed at length to take her second little charge with her. It now became uecessaiy to think of how best to dispose of the unwelcome little s'ringer. The workhouse was tried, but the authorities refused to take it in. until inquiries c mld be made. At length chance and a silly student relieved the good p-ople of their trouble. The child w-is sent cut ,n care of a servant, who, walking iu the vicinity of Gray’s t in Gardens, was accosted by two law students. Would she let them hold the baby J—they jokingly 'aked. The cn imiug servant girl coyly refused. But they woull hold the baby,-.uni at last she consented. Then the student who had obtained tho precious charge demanded a kiss before he would surrender it. “Then you may keep it, ” laughingly shouted the girl, as with a quick run she rushed round a corner, and was lost to the view, of tho asloniihed student, while she ran home with the joyful intelligence that she bad got rid ot ihe “ extra baby.” What the student has done with his charge is not Slated ; but the Lets of the case app. ar to be well known to all the barriateia of the Inn, as wed'as to those of the Middle Temple.