BABY'S GUARDIAN.

Te Aroha News, Volume II, Issue 98, 18 April 1885, Page 7

BABY'S GUARDIAN.

"Where is the baby, grandinama ?" The sweet young mother calls, From her work in the cosy kitchen, With its dainty whitewashed walls. And grandmamma leaves her knitting, And looks for her all around, But not a I race of baby dear Can anywhere be found, No sound of its merry prattle, No gleam of its sunny hair, ,No patter of tiny footsteps, No sign of it anywhere* All through house and garden. Far oat into the field* They search each nook and corner, !>ut nothing is revealed. And the mother's face grew pallid, Grandmamma's eyes grew dim, The father's gone to the vllage, No use to look for him : And the bapy loot I "Where's Rover ?" The mother chanced to think Of the old well in the orchard Where the cattle used to drink, « Where's Rover! I know he'd find her; Rover ! ' In vain they call — They huiry away to the orchard, Ana there, by the moss-grown wall, Close to the well, lies Rover, Holding to br-by's dress { She was leaning over the well's edge, In perfect fearlessness I She stretched her little aqtis down, , I But Rover held, her fa.s,t* And! never seemed to mind the kicks The t«ny bare feet cast ' So spitefully upon- him, ; But wagged his tail instead To' greet die frightened searchers, While naughty baby said— II Deri's aMtt'e dirl in, the watef } ' . tftiff dust as, big as me, ' ,'"'.,' Mani'njV; ' I want t6 Help her out, And talu her home to tea,, j t .But Hover he won't let me, ' ■ And. I' don't love, hjm,. Go j Awuy you naughty Rover I ! Oh, why are 'you crying so ?* •■ ■ * . < , The mother kissed her, saying— > "My ddrling, understand, | Goo(|' ? 'Rover» saved- ybiir life, my deaf-4 And see, he lic.ka, youif jhuud I { [ Eihk Koverl" B\il)y struck him, I . Ariel Grtindina underatddd' }' J J Kz-Tt ] Sho jsajd,v u It's haiji ti) tlmpk ,the<frien.d Who 1 thwart^ us for our^ood." '" ' ;

TlbphiMn/jr'-a rnilVotid town'v nnd la I* out oy/tKo com p</ny,',all>- buyers of lois W 7 efeY ftypljf' tytayd v not j-.<^ sell. l; quor oiMl^M^ojy^W/heirnjnil'fiij^l to be used "for swo »', .purposes. 4 "Borne sons of tp^ \"fiTJ? p p T s l p f cwcjotledt jtn "squat" in tlio 'outskirts of the town', close besMoKthei .rnilroad track, nnd* deal in the.'^oo'U emther.V The railroad uoncl'udeil/that the Irishman arid his; bummers wH'#'nbt necessary to the welfare of the town. .They were told to m >ye on, Not heeding the warning, a blacksmith ,wns called on and' a couple of'heaiy grappling irons were made.' One evening, as the shanty was filled with foul birds' in drunken revelry, the hooks, attached W strong ropes, were firmly affibbsd jto the corners, and fastened to i a : /re,iglit ( train, an«l prohibitory law was most rigidly enforced.