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Show THE WRO.VG BABY AN AWKWARD AWK-WARD CHANGE QS THE CARS. Conductor Tom Clark, of the Hannibal Han-nibal and St. Joseph road, relates a singular incident that occurred on his i-ain on Friday evening. At Quincy a lady got on board the cars bearing in her arms a handsome little child about four months old, tastefully dressed in white, for which she manifested the deepest affection. When the train reached Shelbina another lady got on board, holding in her arms a four-months-old child, the exact counterpart of the one first mentioned, and dressed in precisely the same way, and took her seat directly in front of the first passenger. J ust after the train was in motion both ladies had occasion to get up and pass through the car, and each one deposited her baby carefully on the seat. On returning, each mistook her seat, and, singular to relate, made a mistake in the babies. No. 1 carefully lifted in her arms the baby of No. 2; No. 2 carressed most fondly the little cherub belonging to No. 1. For twenty-two miles the two mothers rode on the train, each nursing the other's child for her own. On reaching Macon,-the Macon,-the Shelbina lady started out of the cars, and was on the point of stepping on the platform with the other lady's infant in her arms, when the conductor, who had noticed tho involuntary exchange, ex-change, called her attention to the fact. She was, of course, greatly surprised, sur-prised, and could scarcely believe it possible; but on returning to the car and comparing notes as well as babies with the other lady, the mistake was discovered and promptly rectified. Each lady pressed closer to her breast the little cherub she had come so near losing, and after a profusion of explanations explan-ations and apologies, which were only terminated by the ringing of the bell, they were separated, and each went on her way rejoicing. It is needless to say that Tom Clark enjoyed the affair hugely, and that he received the hearty thanks of the two mothers who had come so near being p'aced in an awkward awk-ward predicament. St. Joseph (Mo.) Gazette. |