More Husbands' Responsibilities.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 332, 9 January 1889, Page 6

More Husbands' Responsibilities.

' Tiifui " i-ix'ul the iiiim pioudly, as t,he put the now Lub\ into t ho younu fathfnV arm-, ' she's a pei led beauty of a child. 1 ll' thai ail there is ol hoi I he asked. 1 I'm .t^ham^i at ) on. " • Well, (his is ,\II clothe* so far aa loan '-cc. Then he lonic it up and turned its head clow n. ' Oli,' m loanicd the nui.-e, 'you'll kill the bahv " ' \\ hy, what's the matter ' "N nine holdinu her upsido down.' ' Well, it doesn't make any dillerence } ct, docs it .'' ' 1 ne\oi muv a man f-o ignoiant.' 1 How do >ou hold hci, anyway?' Thou the nur^o showed him. ' I wondoc wh.it. ,i father doss under the eiieum«tanee^,' ho thought to himself. '1 biippo-e L'\o u;ol to talk to the lit.tle thinfj. And ho bewail a btrinp; of baby talk ; the baby did not show the faintest sitrn ot recognition. 'Say, I'm afiaid she's deaf, nuiec !' ' Deaf. You'io a fool.' ' Well, she doesn't hear. Shu doon't oven—' Tho baby set up a terrible yell. 4 She's tick,' bo .said. ' There's Fomclhing the matter with hei.' ' No, there ain't.' ' Oh, do babies yell like that &o toon ?' The baby kept up a, bawl. ' I don't know about vthis I suppose 1 oujjlib to play fio stein parent, and tpauk lici. ou^htn ti IV ' S[>anL lvi. id like to sec you spank the dear little tiling." ' I lei e, tal.e hei ,'iuav.' And he went oh dow n*tair-and. lit a cigar and took a walk, reasoning to hinisolt that thcie weie some things in lite only a woman seemed to gia^p thoroughly.