Every mother immediately seized upon the verse, and, setting it to music of her own, sang it as a cradle song to soothe the troubles of infanthood, and repeated it in great glee to the intelligent babe when in a crowing mood, as the poem most fitted for the infant's brain to comprehend.

For answer the woman hurled a log of wood at her; and she, fearful lest her babe should be hurt, departed, leaving the savage woman in possession of her home.

The porter praised God for His goodness; he took the babe, and going again to his house, called to his daughter, who was a widow, with an infant yet in the cradle.

She kindled a fire, and taking the babe, washed and cherished her in her need.

The porter returned to his house, and showed the babe right gladly to his dame.

Whether it be a boy or girl his mother will have suffered much because of him, and for her sister's sake you will pray her to cherish the babe.

In this fashion the ancient nurse gave the babe to his father, who awaited him within the garden.

Seven times a day they reposed them in their journey, so that the women might nourish the babe, and bathe and tend him duly.

'It is for my child,' she shouted; 'and for him.' 'As for your babe, your darling babe, whether he be yours in joy of heart or in agony of spirit, he is still yours.

'It is for my child,' she shouted; 'and for him.' 'As for your babe, your darling babe, whether he be yours in joy of heart or in agony of spirit, he is still yours.

Northward, he made his leisure way almost to the borders of Kashmir, before he found his place of abodePreshbend, a little town of many Sikhs, which clung like a babe to the sloping hip of a mountain.

Until this night he had been unconscious as a babe of racial prejudice.

He looked not at all upon the rude men-at-arms who pushed and bullied about him, but continued tenderly to hush his charge, as if he had been a nurse in a babe-chamber under the leads, with silence in all the house below.

It came the turn of the man who carried the babe.

I will smite my best!" "Aye," said the man with the babe, "even so do, as the Red Axe says.

"Be gracious to Helene," he said; "she was ever a sweet babe.

"Give me the babe!"

I cried; "the babe is mine; the Duke himself hath said it."

"Cherish the babe you have saved, and, as sure as that I am now about to die, one day you shall be repaid."

Then a little voice spoke, sweetly and clearly, but yet strangely sounding to me who had never before heard a babe speak.

But what was my surprise as the little maid came nearer to the bed with her pretty dancing movement, carrying the axe much as if it had been an over-heavy babe, to see the Duke's Justicer suddenly skip over the far side of the bedstead and stand with his red cloak about him, watching her.

I am as ignorant as a babe of all possible 'epteras and 'opteras, and 'statics and 'matics!"

Their gifts lie by forgotten, though the Babe Smiled on the shining treasure in his hands.

She nestled to me, and I kept her near and warm, surprised to find The arms that held my babe so close were opened wider to her kind.

The Babe forsakes His mother's knee, Haste, sweet Mary See how He runneth merrily, One foot upon the path hath He Green, green, the barley and the corn!