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Updated: May 10, 2025
"Sakes alive, Izick, look at that!" said the woman in a whisper, while the little fellow went on picking his toes, and the grey horse turned his tail into a live chowry to keep away the flies. "Well, I am!" said the fat man, wrinkling his face all over as he indulged in a silent laugh. "Why, moother, he's a perfeck picter."
The little fellow scrambled to him, and putting his tiny chubby arms about the man's coarse neck, nestled his head upon his shoulder, and turned to gaze at the farmer and his wife. "Not my bairn!" growled the man; "what d'yer say to that?" "Lor, Izick, only look," said the woman in a whisper. "My!"
"Well, what are yer starin' at?" growled the man defiantly; "didn't think he were your bairn, did you!" "Come away, missus," said the farmer; and the woman reluctantly climbed back into the gig. "It don't seem right, Izick, for him to have such a bairn as that," said the woman, who could not keep her eyes off the child. "Ah, well! it ar'n't no business of our'n. Go along!"
It was not a pleasant countenance, for it was foul without with dirt and more foul within from disease, being covered with ruddy fiery blotch and pimple, and the eyes were of that unnatural hue worn by one who has for years been debased by drink. "Yah!" roared the man, half-closing his bleared eyes. "Leave the bairn alone." "O Izick!" gasped the woman.
"The pretty, pretty little fellow," said the woman in a genuine motherly tone. "O Izick, how I should like to give him a good wash!" "Wash! He's happy enough, bless him!" said the man. "Wonder whose he be. Here, what are you going to do?" "I'm going to give un a kiss, that's what I'm a-going to do," said the woman getting very slowly out of the gig. "He must be a lost child."
Just at this point Pa came home to dinner, and the bad boy said, "Pa, I was just telling Ma what a nice time you had that first night she went away, with the pillows, and " "Hennery!" says the old gentleman severely, "you are a confounded fool." "Izick," said the wife more severely, "Why did you bring a female home with you that night. Have you got no "
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