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MRS. REEVES has gone out to take home some laces and dresses which she has just finished ironing, and has left the baby in his sister's care. The little nurse can knit very well, while she keeps one foot on the cradle and sings,-

"Sleep, little brother; you must not awaken
Till mother comes back to her baby again
Weary and long is the way she has taken,
Over the common and through the green glen."

Some of the neighbours' children have been trying to persuade Josephine to come out and play with them; but nothing could induce her to neglect her charge.