id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt oliphant-tom-1883 oliphant oliphant-tom-1883 1883 .txt text/plain 170606 9112 83 Little Tom had been brought in, too, in his nurse's arms, and crowed and clapped his fat little baby hands for his father; and when his mother took him and stepped out upon the balcony, from which her husband was speaking an impromptu address to his new constituents, with the child in her arms, not suspecting that she would be seen, the cheers and outcries ran into an uproar of applause. She would have liked that every child should have a nursery like little Tom's, and every mother the same prospects for her infant, and was charitable and tender beyond measure to all the mothers and children within reach on little Tom's account, which was an extravagance which her husband did not grudge, but liked and encouraged, knowing the sentiment from which it sprang. cache/oliphant-tom-1883.txt txt/oliphant-tom-1883.txt