A TREASURY OF STORIES, JINGLES AND RHYMES.

Wise babies! When there is nothing else to do it is
best to go to sleep. That will save your shoes and your
nerves, and keep the spectacle man far off.

You know some one who loves a pug?

You ask what babies are good for?

Good for earth and good for heaven; good to frolic, to
learn, to love, to grow up to be good boys and girls.

Pugs and puppies are amusing; but don’t put one in the
scales against a dewy-lipped, starry-eyed baby! Pug would
be ashamed of himself, and wriggle away, and run to the
kennel or the stable.

But you have no baby at your house?

Well, you can find places where there is a baby for
every brick in the sidewalk. To give one of them a nice
home, with a bed and a bath and something to eat would be
jolly; bye-and-bye it would be better than a dog when it
could talk to you and sing.

You know a cat that is loved like a baby ?

Don’t bother to tell us about that, either.

Why, babies are even better than flowers, for they bloom
all the year round!

In some countries, people do not think very much of
baby-girl ; but here she is worth her weight in gold ; worth
just as much as her brother.

Hush! The babies are sleeping yet !

Perhaps this is all the show there is to be!

Let us tiptoe home, and leave them dreaming among the
flowers.

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