non-troublesome

Updated: June 18, 2025

Simple pleasures please them a level pavement, a piece of chalk, a "pitcher," the sun overhead, dirt around, a few companions and non-troublesome babies, are their chief requirements; for few of these girls come out to play without the eternal baby. Notice first, if you will, how deftly these foster-mothers handle the babies; their very method tells of long-continued practice.

Thomas Holmes - London's Underworld