BABY SEASON.
The Mnnawatu Times says : During a visit which Mr Foulis, school inspector, paid to Karere, he called upon the wife of a settler, and found her seated on the doorstep with a child on each knee, and another in her arms. Following her into the house he was about to take a seat on the sofa, when he was startled by the warning cry to “Look out for the baby.” Giving it a wide berth, he retreated to the other end of the sofa, and was again about to make himself comfortable, when the watchful mother forestalled him, with “ Not there, sir; Willy is there.” Casting a look round, he discovered a bundle coiled up in a rocking chair, and assuming that it was another atom of humanity, he exclaimed in despair, “Surely, Madam, there must be a season here for babies as well as mosquitoes; and upon ray word 1 think the former could give the latter long odds in point of numbers.”
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Patea Mail, 22 March 1882, Page 3
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