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cious charge to her arms, and dartlng hasty
glance at his pants, he walks in silence from
the room. Nor do we bachelors always
escape with impunity. Anxious to win "a
smile from some fond mother, more than one
of US may have. dared to approach with a
kiss, the halowed lips OF her darling. But


mark the quick wing of vengeance Darling
from its lurking place in the mouth, out flies
the little fist, and slams a well besabbered
biscuit into the face of the intruder. He
rccoils, with his ''reeking honors fresh upon
hun, and the little squad COOS in triumph
at his failure


This habit of using its fingers, whether it
arise from 'combatlveness, as the phrc-
noogists would call it, or from outdacious
Ihmpldcnce," as Old Aunt Rachael would
say, has always made me very cautious IN
my approaches to infants. Beside, | have no
Iticcd that the little wretchcs are not without


a sense of the humorous They can always
tell when they have put any of their friends


IN an awkward situation; and no one en- loys
the joke SO much as themselves. Often have


watched the movements ofa youthful sage,


who has made the discovery that he has "A
big toe. With what Il sagaclous air does he
eve it round and round; how serious sober


his looks; how he handles, and tugs at the
newly discovered member, until at last, by
too hard a pull he finds that it is bora tidc a
part of himself; and his investigations, like
those of older philosophers, ends only IN


tears. Some people love to plague babies; ;
they tease them, and veX them, and take Il
the streets, with a waggi5ll acquaina ance OF


t,iI l,,, l,, Hail.,