Show diio they gave it to mo nt christmas tho pretty new autograph album and awaa varv proud of it the binding waa so gay and the white gilt edged sheets so spot pure 1 could hardly make up my mind who should have the honor of dadi that album or what verse waa grand enough to bo inscribed on its pages and before I 1 hail quite decided found it she had toddled into the bartor and taken it down from the bablo before wo missed her and waa sitting cross legged like a turk alic procious book in her lap that would not have been worth recording and I 1 should not valno my album beyond arico now if it were all but she had a pencil for 10 dearly loved to scribble on bits of paper and alio had made her mark oil tho front acif the title page of my beautiful book alic had made a mark criss crosa and zigzag zig zag and there she sat hair tossed down over her face glicr little demuro pursed up her bine byca full of mischief half half and wo three women looking at her 0 you naughty naughty baby I 1 cried ou c just my new album you bad thing plass glicr dear little heart said my mother alio make a picture whip her said abut harriet in a vindictive lone she lia lias s no children of glicr own and knows just how to bring up other peoples I 1 was angry enough to do it and had made one step forward intending to w rest alic book out of alic clasping baby fiands and aliat bent my own child I 1 wit saved that degradation by mv own good mother who her head at harriets shoulder how long counting by heartthrobs heart throbs I 1 should say years years it is only a couple of months and today to day I 1 would give oli aliat would I 1 wl give to leavo little hands doing their sweet mischief peace heart ho hi rest thu baby is gone but when I 1 look at the little lines that dedicate my lie sweetest saddest linea to me that ivar britten soon ended like glicr littau life I 1 am aglid eliat 1 took her in my anus kissed alio llio rosebud lips and put book away without one reproving glad hat I 1 caged no angry feelings in that baby or left memories for myself that would now have power to wound aliat is eliy all the leaves of m new album arc blank pure jut aa tho fair page of her little life was but you alo aluff characters on alio dedicating page unmeaning have never and the key a bothers cin tell iliev arc angels will be glad over tins record without blot or slain is no handwriting 0 o fine that I 1 would exchange it for the babas autograph as for us our os anro through fal or inn aal iii tho lil crl hycl murii the iw or alicy re fifthe boil with airl lilot tho b ail teara detroit free |