The boys just shouted and laughed and the smallest one
he up and kicked her while she was down. The policeman walked over
laughing too, but he told nurse that was _too rough_. Then my lady pitched
in, so he told her to tend to her business, that those kids were too tough
to live, and deserved all they got. The nurse laughed at her, and went
back to the grass with the policeman. The baby lay there on the stones,
and never made a sound. She just kind of gasped, and blinked, and lay
there, till my lady went almost wild. She went to her and stooped to lift
her up when she got awful sick. The policeman said something to the nurse,
so she came and dragged the kid away and said, 'The little pig has gone
and eaten too much again, and now I'll have to take her home and wash and
dress her all over,' then she gave her an awful shake. The policeman said
she'd better cut that out, because it _might_ have been the bumping, and
she said 'good for her if 'twas.' The driver pulled up just then and he
asked 'if the brat had been stuffin' too much again?' She said, 'yes,' and
the littlest boy he said, 'she pounded her head on the stone, good,' and
the nurse hit him 'cross the mouth till she knocked him against the car,
and she said, 'Want to try _that_ again? Open your head to say _that_
again, and I'll smash you too.
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