Excerpt from Records of Five YearsNN 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 ¿utter 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 ¿oat 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 PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.