LIVING ON A BABY.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2343, 10 July 1886, Page 1 (Supplement)

LIVING ON A BABY.

When Mr Pickwick was informed that a poor lamily had been subsisting for days upon a gieat coat and two pairs of old boots we are told i hat he was greatly agitated, havingonly heard of such privation in extreme cases of shipwreck. What would have been that amiable gentleman's honor had he been told that a tramp and his wife in the north country have been "living on their bahy v I'or weeks. Tha confcHsion of the father is as follows :~ "We get* 'jm christf ed at all the towiiß wo passes, mid then y'ai see, parson makes us comfortable with something 10 oat and money for beds. Some days was so awful bad we had to no 'im twico." If certain theological views are correct (says the London correspondent of the Argus,) this baby ought to become the best of men,. Was ever a boy blessed with such a lot of god fathers, or promised and vowed for in such profusion, a child, indeed, of many, prayers. How valuable,' too, was this child to his parents, and how they must lament his emerging from a , state of infancy."