Excerpt from Records of Five Years NN ie! Sophie! Come up quick, and see baby in her bath-tub I cries a charming little maid en, running down the wide stairway of an Old country house, and half-way up the long hall, all in a flutter ing cloud Of pink lawn, her soft dimpled cheeks tinged with the same lovely morning hue. In an instant there is a stir and a gush of light laughter in the drawing-room, and presently, with a movement a little more majestic and elder-sisterly, Annie and Sophie float noiselessly through the hall and up the soft-car peted ascent, as though borne on their respective clouds of blue and white drapery, and take their way to the nursery, where a novel entertainment awaits them. It is the first morning of the eldest married sister's first visit home, with her first baby 5 and the first baby, having slept late after its journey, is about to take its first bath in the old house. Well, I declare, if here is n't mother, forgetting her dairy, and Cousin Nellie, too, who must have4 Records of F z've Years. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.