CHAPTER II.
THE TWO NURSES.
At seven o'clock Mr. and Mrs. Codman and Fanny started for church. Dr. and Mrs. Reed went, too; and another clergyman with his wife, by the name of Matthews. Mrs. Matthews had been invited to tea, and had brought her baby, a little girl, nearly the same age as Mrs. Codman's.
Soon after they were gone, Ann perceived that Josey was sleepy, and easily persuaded him to lie down on the bed. Then the two nurses, having had their supper, began to chat, while they tended the babies.
"Look now!" said Ann, dancing Miss Emma on her lap, "the two of them look as much alike as a pair of kittens."
"Except," answered Martin, "that your Miss has black eyes; and mine, blue."
"That's true for ye, but then their mouths are the same, and sure enough I thought before, that no baby could equal ours for a small mouth."
In the mean time Emma and Rose cooed and coquetted with each other in the very best of spirits, until a late hour, when they both went quietly to sleep.
"Feth and a pretty sight they're making," suggested Ann, pointing with some pride to the bed; the two little ones lying side by side, and Master Josey across the foot, with his rosy cheek resting on his hand.
"It looks for all the world like a baby asylum," was Martin's laughing reply.