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On the seventh night after the boy's birth, he named him Aboulhusn, and the wet-nurses suckled him and the dry-nurses dandled him and the slaves and servants carried him, till he grew up and throve and learnt the sublime Koran and the ordinances of Islam and the things of the True Faith.
Several friends of the present writer have seen this done in India and Ceylon by male "wet-nurses." As there is no tribe of men or species of ape in which the male suckles the young normally, we seem to be thrown back once more upon an earlier ancestor.
"Lady Bassett's theory is, that children derive their nature quite as much from their wet-nurses as from their parents, and she thinks the faults we deplore in Reginald are to be traced to his nurse; by-the-by, she is a dark woman too." "Well," said Rolfe, "there's a good deal of truth in that, as far as regards the disposition. But I never heard color so accounted for; yet why not?
She was the queen of wet-nurses, but alas! cruel time hath dried up her business, and she hath need of some little nursing herself. 'If I live and you should fall, I shall do what may be done for her, said I. 'Have you aught else to say? 'Only that Hacker of Paul's Yard is the best for vests, he answered.
"But I ax you, as Boss, be this here camp a camp, er a camp-meetin'? Walley Johnson kin go straight to hell; but ef you sez we 'ain't to sing nawthin' but hymns, why, o' course, it's hymns for me till I kin git away to a camp where the hands is men, an' not wet-nurses!" "That's all right, Red!" said the Boss.
In the village of Iwokina, on May 26, 1854, the wife of a peasant bore 4 children at a birth, all surviving. Bousquet speaks of a primiparous mother, aged twenty-four, giving birth to 4 living infants, 3 by the breech and 1 by the vertex, apparently all in one bag of membranes. They were nourished by the help of 3 wet-nurses.
Many thousand children are annually taken in and nursed at this institution, no restriction being imposed upon the parents, who may be either married or single, to suit their own taste or condition. The regular force of wet-nurses employed is about six hundred, besides which there are numerous dry-nurses and teachers for the older children.
Let that woman step aside into the benches of the spectators, those who have served their purpose and must become wet-nurses, child-dryers, infant-teachers, perambulator-motors, question-answerers, nose-blowers, mischief-punishers, cradleside-bards. Charity laughed derisively at the vision of Zada as a mother.
"But do you think you could get me a situation as wet-nurse?" said the other woman; "it would save me from going to the workhouse." "I really don't know what to do with you all; you all want to stop in the hospital at least a month, eating and drinking the best of everything, and then you want situations as wet-nurses at a pound a week."
The wet-nurses, whose picturesque dress is so noticeable on the streets of Berlin, all come from this Wendish colony, which has been preserved through the many wars that have swept over this part of Germany because of the refuge afforded in the swamps and forests of this district. The inhabitants of the Rhine Valley drink wine instead of beer.
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