Bob Robinson’s Baby 175

And when the next week came, the gar-
dener had gone!

Daily Bob Robinson took the worms to
the new baby; and at times it came into
his mind that it did seem a little hard to
turn out the young people—for they most

certainly did take great care of his baby: .

but Bob’s dignity had
been ruffled by the slight
to his authority ; and
he could not per-
suade himself to give
the young pair per-
mission to stay.
Very often the
young man would
walk moodily round
the garden in the
evening with his
eyes on the ground; and very often the
young woman would appear at the window
with red eyes, as if she had been crying ; but
when the young man was.there she would
pretend to be happy, and keep telling him
that something or other would not be so