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Baby Is Awake, Text

From: New Book Of Two Hundred Pictures
Creator: n/a
Date: 1868
Publisher: American Sunday School Union
Source: Straight Ahead Pictures Collection


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BABY IS AWAKE

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BABIES generally seem to waken just when everybody in the house is very busy and anxious they should take a good long nap. This little boy's mother cannot leave the ruffled skirt she is ironing, and his sister had just sat down to read her library-book, when Master Frank opened his blue eyes, looked at the bright light from the window, then all around the room, and, seeing no one ready to take him from the cradle, he screamed as if very badly treated. The kind sister puts away her book, - not without a sigh, - and then hurries to soothe the little fellow.

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