Coram Boy: Part 2

By JAMILA GAVIN

'So the midwife took the basket of six babies down to the river. But on the way she met the husband, a fine gentleman.

He heard little squealings and noises.

"Pray, what have you in that basket?" he asked."

'Oh it's nothing but six little kittens I am going to drown in the river," quoth she."

'I'm going that way myself," said he. "Give them to me. I shall deal with them."

Whereupon, he took the basket and rode down to the river.

'When the husband got to the riverbank and opened the basket, what did he see, but six little newborn girls.

He frowned a dark, dreadful frown, then closing the basket took it away to a secret place.

'Seven years passed. The gentleman and his fine lady prepared to celebrate their daughter's birthday and to give thanks to God for preserving her through infancy.

First they would go to church for a special service, then afterwards throw a party to which the whole village was invited.'

Publisher: Mammoth

Price: $16.95

Age group: 12 plus years

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