Woman's Sixth Sense

Waikato Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 2012, 30 May 1885, Page 6 (Supplement)

Woman's Sixth Sense

Here ia a singular instance "of the working of that subtle, fine, shah n^uss, which h apt to affect women more than men, ami which n ao mysterious in character that we often dcuiine to deny its existence at fill. A lady s.it* sewing quietly in her sitting room and in an inner ohumber tue nursa had just puttho biby to sleep and laid her in her baa3tinotte. As the nurse carae-out of the chamber she B&iil to her mistress : " The little thing will slaep for three hours, madam, I'll warrant." The nurse went down stairs, and for about i minute the mother sewed on. Suddenly a deßire seized her to gdl and take the Bleeping child from the crib. " What nomeuse ? " flhe said to liflraelf. "Baby ia sound asleep. 'Nurs9 just, put her down. I shall not go." Instantly, however, some power, strpuger oven than the last, urged the mother to go to her baby ; and, after a moment, ehe rose, half vexed with herself, and weut to her chamber. The baby was asleep in her little bel, safely tucked in with soft white and pink blankets. One small hand was thrown above the little brown head. It was half open, the exquiaito fingers slightly curved, and the palm as rosy as the depths of a lovely shell. "My baby 1 " whispered the mother, ador ing the little sleeper as mothera will. "My own little baby 1 " She bent over suddenly a third tima, impelled by that imperious force which was controlling her, and, for no apparent reason, took the sleeping baby in her arras and weut swiftly into the other room. Sha had scarcely crossed the threshold when a startling sound caused her to look back. Through a stifling cloud of thick gray du^t pho saw that the coiling above the baby's cradle had fallen, burying tho heaps of rosy blankets, and lying heaviest of all upon that spot whero, but for the mystic warning, her little ohild would oven then bo lying.