Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1890 — Bite Huda Flash and Blood Baby. [ARTICLE]

Bite Huda Flash and Blood Baby.

A lady walking along the street came upon a little girl' wheeling a baby carriage. “What a beautiful baby!” exclaimed the lady as she discovered a pink face done up in a cream-colored shawl. “Whose child is it?" “Mine,” the girl answered. “Oh, you mean that it is your little brother or sister. ” “No, I mean that he is not my brother, but is mine—my child.” “You are a very young mother.” “I ain’t no mother.” “Then why should you say that the baby is yours?” the lady mischievously asked. “Cause God sent It to me. My mamma asked me if I didn’t want a little baby in the house an’ I said yes, an’ she said if I prayed for one God would send it, and then I said I would pray for a little sister, ’cause I like glrli better than boys; but mamma said I Jest better pray for any kind that God was a mind to send, but I didn’t. I prayed for a little girl, but God took an’ sent a boy any way, an’ I guess it was ’cause he didn’t have any girls on hand. Then I said I would pray to send a little girl as soon as he could, an’ it made papa laugh, an’ he said I neentcr pray any more; he’d see the Lord about it himself. And he did. This is the child —my child.”— Pioneer Press.