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The Brussels Post, 1890-11-7, Page 3t 4 NOY, 7, 1890, Baby Ash le s Th ank 8 %Ving . Oh, you should have seen the Dobbine family at the depot 1 They were all going to grandpa's for Thanksgiving—su(3h a lot of them. There was Aire. Dobbins) and her seven children and Mr. Dobbins, who was there to see them off, but oould not go until the next mom ing on account of business. The children were so afraid of being left, that they were all at the depot an hour beforehand. They scrambled over Beate, tumbled over satchels and watched for the train. They lived at Jackson, about forty miles from Cherry Creek, the home of Mrs, Dobbins' father, At last they heard tho train. And such a rushing for the door you never eaw. There was Johnny, aged fourteen ; Maudie, ten ; Harry and Don, and worse than all, the twins, aged three years ; and the baby aged one. He was Ashley, "grandpa's darling." It Seemed ti miracle how Mrs. Dobbins ever got her fvmily seated quietly in the oars, but she did ; and the train with a snort started off towards grandpa's. The little ones kept climbing to the windows, and runuiug to the done, while Johnny and Maudie brought them back and set them down every five minutes. The twins were the worst of all. How they did act 1 They were bound to Stay in the aisle, and the brakeman rushing through the car, stumbled over them and made some remarks not very complimentary to "brats." Harry and Don chased the conduc- tor through the cars to ask him if they were not pretty near to grand• pa's. He told them be 'hoped so.' Every other mrnuto one of them would ask mamma, "Ain't we most there ?" Tho baby was the only well behaved one among them. He went to sleep and Mrs. Dobbins laid him on a sent behind her and devoted her attention to the rest of them. Calling them all around her she said : "Now children, we are almost to grandpa's and as papa is not here to help us, I will tell you what we must do. I must take Jet and Jenny, aa they cannot get off the train alone. Johnny will take the baby and carry him, and lIaudie mut mind the others." Then the whistle blew for Cherry Creek, and Mrs. Dobbins got her children in a line, and with a twiu on Snob side of her, started for the door, saying, "Now, childrou, fol low me." Throngh the window Johnny had seen his Uncle "Will holding the horses, and, forgetting the baby, he rushed out the other door and was on the seat with Uncle Will in an instant. While Airs. Dobbiuswaa greeting her father and friends, the train pulled out of the station and out of sight with little baby Ashley fast asleep on the seat As grandpa's carriage could not hold them all, Mrs. Dobbins took the twins With her and the little boys and Bent Maudie to Hurtle Will's team with Johnny. Maudio Wile so excited at ening Uncle Will and hearing Johnny's tongue run about the apples and nuts and other things they had, that she never once thought of the baby. It was dark when they left the train and all wero anxious for grandma's supper. A short drive brought them to the gate and grandma's light was in eight. She was watching for them and such hugging and kissing as wont on when the children gathered around grandma and the uncles and aunts 1 They laughed and talked and loosed each other until grandpa suddenly asked : "Where to little Ashley, grand- pa's darting ?" Mrs. Dobbins opened her mou h and epos and eeroamod : "Why, Johnny, Lahore's tho baby ?" mud she grasped him by the nook of his jacket and shook him. "ilalrfux l Baby ? Itain't seen him." "Oh, my goodness ? Johnny, didn't 1 toll you to bring him off the cars ? Johnny suatehed his hat and started for the station, while Mrs. Dobbine sat clown on a chair and began to ory. Johnny ran with all f hie might to the station and, goiog I to the ticket agent, said : "Ole 1 stop the train quick for our baby's on it l" But the agent replied : "Why, my bey, the train hn.a been gono nearly an hour." 'Wall, stop her anyway 1' Johnny cried. HIo thou started for home er'ying at every stop. The ticket agent telegraphed to have the train stop and bink for the baby. Meauw•htle, shortly after they loft the ear, the littlo follow awoke and sat up. Not a fitco did ho know. He stared around a moment and then began to cry. "Bless me," said an old woman just behind, "If they didn't forget the baby somehow ; but no wonder them, t o is i w s and —such n lot of all. She took the little one in her lap and quieted him and sent fur the conductor. The ear full of people grew excited as the little fellow cried for mamma. At the next station a drummer, with mere heart than usual offered to take the next train back with him, to where the family had got off ; but it was a through express which did not atop at Cherry Creek, but sped on to Jaokeon House, where Ise met Mr. Dobbine. "Well," said Dobbins, "what have you got there ?" "Oh, I am In a nice scrape. Somebody left a confounded baby in the cars and I promised to take him home, and now I don't know what to do with the little squirming thing. Something about the clothes struck Mr. Dobbins as familiar. "Why, bless yon Jack, that's my baby 1" "Well, then, talcs the animal quick, for I was never so molt of anything in my life," and ho hauded over the crying infant. Mr. Dobbins had just closed his store for the night, and he walked rapidly Home, wondering how he could keep the baby alive till morn- ing. Ile warmed some milk for it over the lamp and rocked it to sleep, and then sat down to wait for the morning train, which left at three o'clock. "I guess I'll have to have my children checked, if my wife takes them all off with her again," he said to himself. "I expect those twins made a rumpus as usual. I ought to have gone with her." All night long grandpa watched the telegraph office, but nothing came. Mrs. Dobbins cried and then [molded Johnny and then cried and the house was in confusion, until grandpa started on the two - thirty train to find the baby. When he reached Jackson, he found Mr. Dobbins had gone on the train which he had passed Doming up. Nothing was heard of the baby. It was so early rn the morning that no one had noticed Mr. Dobbins take the train. Grandpa telegraphed and inquired but could hear noth ing, and sick at heart and discourag- ed, he took the nine o'clock train for Cherry Creek again. His jolly face was oxtreme]y long and ho kept asking himself what had become of "grandpa's darling." He walked from the station to his house, thinking what a sacs Thanksgiving dinnor it would be , society to look at your watch fre- IRE BRUSSELS POST with all that trouble on their hearta. quently during the eervioe. After As he opened the front door ho looking at your watch always turn heard them all langhiug and talk, your head and gaze longingly and lug, whsle a small of roast turkey earnestly toward the door. floated out on the pool air. There, -- —►— in the middle of the sitting room, IIO1;161101,1) BESTS. Stood Mr. Dobbins tossing baby to the Detlingwhile the whole party To stop hiccough, take a lump of lmuglied as, they watched him. A sugar Saturated with vinegar. happier family never sat down to a Put bila of camphor gum in draw. Thanksgiving dinner, and as grand. ore or trunks to prevent the mica pa said grace they all returned From doing any injury. thanits that baby Ashley lead been to brighten carpets, wipe Warnfound all sato again, and ovary two with warm water in which has been nia minutes the twins shorted : "Papa port is not generally s f aizmoown tba,t tin bringed drandpa'e darling back cleaned with newspaper will shine mile, didn't be, mamma?' better than when gleaned with flan. teuttnew rrrrtur:TTM. nel. A. clothes wringer can be easily Some one aslted "Bob" Burdette cleansed from the lint that collects for "a few points on church eti. on the rollers by saturating a cloth quette." He suggested the follow• in kerosene and rubbrus it over. ing, among others, as tacitly in Butter or Dade of milk may bo vogue in the Clinroh of St. Iudol• kept perfectly cold by being wrap. encs, New Chioorkadalphia : pod in a cloth and set in a deep Fa'? or elide into the end of the paw unmet the Milo. 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