CARRYING THE BABY.
lam a great big fellow ; my better half is hardly half my size. Our baby took after its father m physical proportions. Attracted by the fine weather last Sunday, we thought we would take the hope of the house out, and it was agreed, after he had been carefully wrapped up m his cloak, that I should carry him. I received all proper instructions regarding his being properly held to prevent his taking cold, and everything went well enough until we heard a passer-by remark to a companion :— ' How fanny to see a big man , carrying a small baby !' After that my wife insisted that I must surrender the baby »t once to her. Now, the baby, by comparison, looks small with me, but very big with her, and we had not gone very far before we heard this remark : 'Look at that big fellow loafing along and letting his poor little wife carry that great big . baby !' * Now, what I want to know is, who should carry the baby?''
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Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 243, 15 September 1883, Page 2
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