. St. Nicholas [serial]. SOMETHING GOES WRONG WITH SOMETHING GOES WRONG WITH ROB. of dewy slumbers. Later on, that baby beateverything in the way of contrariness the nurse ever saw. He was so large of his age that it madehim delicate ; he kicked when they rocked himto sleep, and collapsed when they tried to stand himon his legs;finally, he wasso plump andpuffy that hehad the croupevery seventhnight, — notreally seriouscroup, but justcroup enoughto set the fam-ily on edge. But baby wassugared moon-beams com-pared with hislittle brotherRob,-or rath-er his bigbrother, for Isuppose a boy of
. St. Nicholas [serial]. SOMETHING GOES WRONG WITH SOMETHING GOES WRONG WITH ROB. of dewy slumbers. Later on, that baby beateverything in the way of contrariness the nurse ever saw. He was so large of his age that it madehim delicate ; he kicked when they rocked himto sleep, and collapsed when they tried to stand himon his legs;finally, he wasso plump andpuffy that hehad the croupevery seventhnight, — notreally seriouscroup, but justcroup enoughto set the fam-ily on edge. But baby wassugared moon-beams com-pared with hislittle brotherRob,-or rath-er his bigbrother, for Isuppose a boy of four years is a big brother froma younger point of view. That boy was alwaysgoing where he was not wanted, though whenneeded he was invariably out of sound andreach. If you were talking secrets, he wouldsuddenly pop up from behind a sofa. If youwished to steal out by the side door, you d besure to find him on the sill, and he wouldcatch at your ankle and coax until you said,Oh yes, you can come, too. And then, ifyou did say it, he would nt keep hold
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