breast-babe

Updated: May 1, 2025

And as for the child she had found again on the place she had left her own silent breast-babe seven years back; it never gave a cry or made any sound whatever, but stared with round, strange eyes only, and withered away in three days, and was hidden by her in a sand-hole at the root of a stunted thorn that grew there.

Emilie Kip Baker - Short Stories and Selections for Use in the Secondary Schools