Show 4 y ABOUT BABY DAYS M elly could coll id remember a good man many months lb back in filet she could remember two whole years back biu lt and yet she was now only three years rears old but she was a 0 child now site she was was no longer loneer a baby some seine foolish pen lien pie le still called tier her n baby Itea lh they knew Y very ery little th iliev y know tint that a baat bab v was a little til bit of a la helpless creature cren ture very lovnel very sweet but very helpless they khow that a baby ca u walk or talk or even een think at least if a baby could think a ahli tell what she was ans think il about and a baby remember well at all in fact a baby hall had a very bud bad A she loved to put her head close to his head memory melly knew that of course slie site knew it she had dad been it baby her heiselt herselt and she simply remember what site she had thought about when she wits a baby she often tried to think hard by thinking hard she felt slie site might remember something but atut no mattai how bow hard site she thought slie site re member further burk bat k than wiled when sli sit was one whole benr old her fler mother said that most people remember when they were a year old hut hill melly could do that not much of course slie she could remember only a few things about that flint time site she had find tit strange dim remembrance of tile lie she ehe had been carried in h her e r it daddes daddys a d d s arms it was was a iery very very dark night slie bile had been told since that they hurt haid arrived arrive in the town tonn where thet were going to make their hoine borne and thai tha I 1 the place they had gone to stay sany to for the night wits was nver overcrowded crowded and that there had been no room for them she knew they illey had arrived on a train as she had been told tint but slie she m Ille ulber anything about the train nor did site she remember it i sin ii thin thins unit that imil had im pinned in all of that hist first year nr of nf tier bior lire life site was mas a 11 letle over if 11 your year of af uge tige when fier daddy hod find ann cnn binl il tier lier from one hotel to ft another slip she remembered how da larl rk and everything tind dented wen et ted and site she that her mother and doldy find talked to each 0 other ow r fill aind to tier lier vital clivy alie k had said site she had find not kin bri der deist stool nod but she mie had not felt fright enid ened in ili tier her fathers fitt liers arms arins from the lie site she was a year old unell ill slip site wits was eighteen months old site remembered avry little only she re nickit nic nit tiered kindly old walters waiters she could see tapin now as she thought about them ang and slie she remembered the breut greut excitement of creeping oh how fast she alio could creep rut but just as aa soon us its slit she lind imd a 11 good start und and was really rushing delightedly her mother had come hurrying afler her hep and bad caught tier lier up and curried carew tier her back bach to her room tier her mother had a 0 way of hurrying so very fast molly melly could not keep of tier her mother mot lier once her mother find started after tier her tier daddy would come find c lop stop her when she waa creeping sometimes ethues tile the very oldest and the very ery nicest walter waiter in the hotel chased after tier her it seemed such a pity they were afraid she bile would tall fall downstairs and site she was not afraid of anything N not at a singla thing but iset host best of all during those months wits was the great hig newfoundland dog with the file long soft beautiful hair and tile the roost most handsome face sicily had ever seen her mothers face was nice and so was tier her dad daddes daddys dys and there were cross fues too fores faces that looked at her and tier feel in the way and not loved fares faces that belonged to people win who fin aind a cross choss way vay of speaking fi melly lelly know just what was the mutter with those people then when I 1 lien site she was three though and thought ab about 0 tit them site she knew that I 1 they hoy were merely fussy people who were annd e nervous by children but the lie log flog find the most handsome I 1 ance nee of all slie she loved to put her head close to his head bend and he seemed to love it ton and lie gave her rides nil all the rides she wanted on his big beautiful back oh site she would never aget fo aget that dog not ns as long ns as she bile lived tie lie tind halt made her have so many happy times dines when she was little yes ves she was little then but even ahen she was pot poi a hiby still perr per halls slit could cull call those tier her baby lays days now though she was three years old und and she was most certainly n baby no na lonker longer only foolish people called her a baby now I 1 C copyright |