NO JOKE TO BE A BABY.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1234, 28 December 1882, Page 2

NO JOKE TO BE A BABY.

Now, I suppose you think,” a baby is made to say by u lady writer who thinks differently, “ because you never see me do anything bitt feed and sleep, that I have a very nice time of it. Let me tell you that von are mistaken, and that I am tormented half to death, although I never say anything about it. How should you like every morn, ing to have your nose washed up instead of down ? How should you like to have a pin put through your dress into your skin, and have to bear it all day till your clothes were taken off at night ? How should you like to be held so near the fire that your eyes were I half scorched out of your head, while your I nurse was reading a novel? How should I you like to have a fly light on your nose, and 1 not know how to take aim at him with your ■ ■ little, fat, useless finders ? How should you i j like to be left alone in the room to take a / nap, and have a great pussy jump into your , cradle and sit staring at you with her great i green eyes till you were all of a tremble ’ I How should yon like to tire yourself out, crawling away across the carpet, to pick up a pretty button or pin, and have it snatched away as soon as you begin to enjoy it ? I tell you it is enough to ruin any baby’s temper. Oh, I can tell you it is no joke to be a baby ! Such a thinking as we keep us ; and if we J try to find out anything we are sure to get j our brains knocked out in the attempt. It I is very trying to a sensible baby who is in a [ hurry to know everything and can’t wait to • grow up.”