Mr. Midshipman Easy

has to wait the is

I mention this as a proof of my modesty and diffidence. At first, I am like a young bird just out of its mother's nest, plum

hrew up his milk while the nurse blessed it for a pretty dear, slept, and sucked again. He crowed in the morning like a cock, screamed when he was washed, stared at the candle, and made wry faces with the wind. Six months

pply of nourishment for the child; but Mr Easy was a philosopher, and had latterly taken to craniology, and he descanted very learnedly with the Doctor upon the effect of his

eplied the Doctor, "and

nary to one more important," repl

claimed his wife, who had

rse, my

Mr Easy?" con

the husband. "I must ascertai

es this evening, and I shall question her pretty severely

ery healthy and strong, or I

er charac

ies you please. But at the same time I ought to observe, that if you are too p

ed Mrs Easy. "And I shall

ousemaid, and was ushered in. She was a handsome, florid, healthy-looking girl, awkward and naive in her

iscoveries, was the first who spoke. "Young wom

clean, I assure you,". cried

een the bed and Mr Easy's chai

the young woman, and was very busy putting his fingers through her hair,

that you have a large p

e young woman, dr

neratio

nky,

f modesty is str

plied the girl

new organ," thou

itiveness ve

't know what that is," ans

ustration. Mrs Easy, I am satisfied. Have you an

Easy. Pray, young wom

you pleas

ave you bee

ied,

marr

misfortune, ma'am," replied t

you not be

'am, no

by bringing this person here?" exclaimed Mrs Ea

ed the young woman, dropping a cu

e one!" excla

l, indeed, and died so

-what could you me

t married women, who have a proper feeling, will not desert their own children; and as Mr Easy asserts, and you appear to imagine, the temper and disposition of your child may be affected by the nourishment it receives, I think it more likely to be in

oves that she is a modest young woman, with strong religious

r what I know, Mr Easy, but h

r the situation, ma'am

am," rejoined Sarah, "i

ho had listened in silence. "It is fretting so, poor thi

and in a few seconds Master John Easy

s!-there, there, stop it a mom

ch a pleasure which was denied to herself; the next, that of delight, at the satisfaction expressed by the infant. In a few minutes

tched at everything, squeezed the kitten to death, scratched his mother, and pulled his father by the hair; notwithstanding all which, both his father and mother and the whole household declared him to be the finest and sweetest child in the universe. But if we were to narrate all the wonderful events of