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POOR LITTLE FREDDY. 379
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be kissed and caressed for a few minutes before going to bed , . sufficed that he to was satisf a very y the , very mot precious her ' s affec who gift tion would , . solemnl She ask y never from intrus thoug her ted ht to
_accoun her care t , of by how a heavenl the ch y arge Father had , been fulfilled . She never an paused by the infant ' s cradle to seek a blessing bent the from knee above to ask on
for herself streng and th on to li ttle her Fredd duty y . her She child never . _Not that Mrs . Watson worse than her neihbours in reliious matters . She
was gg rag attended ing the church laws laid regularl down y , and in Scri never pture offended ; and yet socie , oh ty I how by ou far t-
was her heart from being right ! that Bu mother t in spi - t care e of which mamma intrusts ' s neglec the t— entire for what management else can we of call the The
gen he child was tle to spring dancing servants expanded in ? —little nurse into ' s warm Fredd lap , , y beau grew crowing tiful and summer wi thrived th , deli and . gh t t all
day saw pleasure long her . so so With seldom grea the t as strange and nestling she instinct was in his very of proud a t child her ' s of , arms Fredd her , brave y thoug knew h bi he g
boy When , and liked the winter to exhibit ; came him to her was admirin lisping g visitors funny . words , of
voice his own seemed —so . swee Then t and as angel the , spring -like the cam prattlin e round g of again the silver little
patter Freddy of began the tiny to _^ toddle fee , t across alone the ; and floor I overhead wonder the did not uncertain , bring
the mo M ther t up Fredd from ' s her drawing advance -room from to infancy share in to nurse childhood _' joy .
duller over I wonder as si , ht too , t that he y the t remel parent y -eye precociou did not s intellect discern , w of hat the esca boy ped
a t ei the hteen alarmin g months , g progress looked like a th child mind of two body ; for and Freddy a half . , years
g abou I s t his him in before tellectual me now brow , wi and th his fallin bright curl his y h fair air clus neck teri and ng
rounded shoulders . His grea , t dark eye g s flashing with life , and some articularl strange swee , never t and -told docile unknown and his genius affe . ctions His were temper stron was g
py , and boy warml as her y darling expressed , and . Nurs indeed e thoug he w ht there a rare nev child er wa ; s such t the a
rich withered , too- soon died -ripe un frui seen t o and f h untreasured is angelic charac by a parent ter bl ' s oomed heart . , MrsWatson , was , even more than ever engaged in those
Balls worldly . concerts affairs dinner which engrossed artiescon every versaziones momen made t of her the tim sum e . p
_rf her , occupations , , and p face , became almost a almost s that of a
st leted ranger his to second Freddy . When nurse the remarked little fellow that had he was slowl compyear , , y
Poor Little Freddy. 379
POOR LITTLE FREDDY . 379
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1864, page 379, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081864/page/19/
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