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    378 POOB LITTLE FREDDY.

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    your ni How hts well infant when you ' s remember smile bosom and the winning longed dreary ways days to feel , when and again first the long you the missed gentle weary

    pressure in this g the lap of could of the your Moth soft tell er baby but Earth face it . is that All for lies this the beneath you gay remember and the sod thoug , , and cradled htless all

    loss among as you our you young have , m that atrons ; I , write those who this have story not of bab suffered y Fredd such y ' a s

    little life . Nurse It was said a he sweet was a spring " lovel morning little lad wh . " en The this doctor baby called was born him . y

    a fine thriving fellow ; and papa touched the velvet cheek with his moustached lips , and voted the hel baby less a "jolly in specimen her . "

    and The young stroked m his amm small a took ink the face tiny and p hands thing and called arm him s , pretty names . And so p the fair human blossom , opened its when

    petals other flowers , in the were warm also sunshin bursting e of into so much bud and tending beauty , . just and

    in the When his hol Master y he pastor was ' s name a took month the and old little consecrated they one carried in his it him to arm to His s , the and service church blessed ; , and it

    wen had baby t done was back everything now to his called luxurious that a , Fredd was y proper , " and and the and ri parents no ght one , so th the thoug oug littl ht ht e th any pet ey

    more about his being not merel nursery y the , precious baby , but the precious something Christian to be prayed child , for a lam and b watched of the Saviour overearnestl ' s fold y , and and

    lad dutifull Littl fond e y . Freddy of amusement ' s mamma _xaleasure was , , like many and excitement another , lig . ht- She hearted had

    tenderly been " th y e , world a -cared petted " was -for dau constantl wife ghter . , She and calling was sister , tal , on ented and her was to and leave now beautiful the a petted , quiet and ,

    y duties of home and shine in the giddy circles of society ; a and centre envious of light admiration and loveliness of the —her hollow reward and , the thoug empty htless , flattering votaries ,

    exch of fashion anfor . all OJi th ! is what to a had heart one whose helpless chief infan enjoymen t to offer t lay in in

    ball-rooms ge and theatres ? I have no doubt Freddy ' s mother loved thoughtless her little selfish boy as manner dearly th as inking too many her duty mothers towards do , in him a

    nurse quieted accomp . lished A all , short her when fears and she hasty about saw , him visit baby well ' once s daily fed a day and life ; well to and the dressed Fredd nursery by to y , dressed grandland carried in state to the drawing-room

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    378 Poob Little Freddy.

    378 POOB LITTLE FREDDY .

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1864, page 378, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081864/page/18/