The Adventures of Herr Baby

HE SAT WITH ONE ARM PROPPED ON THE TABLE, AND HIS ROUND HEAD LEANING ON HIS HAND, WHILE THE OTHER HELD THE PIECE OF BREAD AND BUTTER--BUTTER DOWNWARDS, OF COURSE 16

"I was four yesterday; when I'm quite old I'll have a cricket-ball made of pure gold; I'll never stand up to show that I'm grown; I'll go at liberty upstairs or down."

"It won't spoil your afternoon tea; don't say it will," said all together, for nothing would ever make them believe that when mother came up to the nursery at tea-time it could...

He was forced to tell Denny a good many things, because they slept in the same room, and, of course, everybody knows that _whatever_ mammas and nurses say, going-to-sleep-in-bed...

"She did not say to the sun good-night, As she watched him there like a ball of light, For she knew he had God's time to keep All over the world, and never could sleep."

Grandfather had fixed that it would be best to go straight through at once to the seaport, where, the next morning, they would find the 'normous boat waiting to take them over t...

Baby and Fritz went out a walk that afternoon in the town with auntie and Lisa. Celia and Denny had gone for a drive with mother and grandfather, which the big people thought wo...

There was a cat at the Villa Desiree, Baby's, and Denny's, and "all of them's house," as Baby would have called it. Where the cat came from I don't know--whether it belonged to...

It _was_ a good thing grandfather was out, for--and this was what mother was thinking of--poor grandfather, though he looked such a fine, tall, gray-haired old gentleman, was no...

By this time, of course, it was quite dark. It had been quite light when auntie and Mademoiselle Lucie set off, but at Santino the darkness comes on very quickly. Poor Baby, he...