Then there must be a bit of red carpet beside the bedstead, and thus the progress of splendor went on.

The wife of one of the colored sergeants was engaged to act as nursery-maid.

She was a very respectable young woman; the only objection to her being that she smoked a pipe.

But we thought that perhaps Baby might not dislike tobacco; and if she did, she would have excellent opportunities to break the pipe in pieces.
In due time the steamer arrived, and Baby and her mother were among the passengers.

The little recruit was soon settled in her new cradle, and slept in it as if she had never known any other.