“SIX BEST BABIES.

Some people say they like six babies best when they

are fast asleep !
Six shops full of candies, six cafés full of cakes and pies.

which we cannot reach, are not so good as one box of
sweets at home, to eat with someone we love.

So, six little pets asleep in the public garden, are not
worth so much to you and me as our one baby at home,
asleep or awake.

If we could only help ourselves to one of these tired
babes, who has nodded off to sleep among the posies !
But how could we choose, while the fringed curtains are
down before the windows of baby’s face ?

Step softly! There! One has heard you and lifts her
head, rubbing her dimpled knuckles against her sleepy eye.
Now if she catches sight of us, she may cry long and loud!

Wonder if she has any teeth! Suppose she can talk?

How came these human flowers here? Did they fall, to-
gether, from some balloon passing overhead? It would.
be a pity to let one fall where it was not wanted !

Somebody loves these babies ; for see how cunning are
their little gowns and bibs. This small jacket shows how
fast this fellow has grown.

It may be a baby show, and we have come too early.

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