paun-box

Updated: May 21, 2025

With something akin to a mother's feelings, she takes the infant in her arms, which seems incontinent to become a part of herself, lying all day on her knees, and sleeping all night in her bosom; and from that moment the nurse, the child, and the paun-box are always together.

Various - Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 433: Volume 17, New Series, April 17, 1852