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Helen's Babies
John Habberton
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In this hilarious novel, Harry Burton, a bachelor white-goods salesman, goes to take care of his sister Helen’s two little boys for ten days while she and her husband are out of town. Helen says, “The children won’t give you the slightest trouble; they’re the best children in the world!” but, as you can imagine, Toddie and Budge are always up to something, and all sorts of comic mischief ensues. It just so happens that there’s a lovely young lady in the neighborhood whom Harry admires very much, but she always seems to be passing by when he’s deep in some terrible mess of the boys’ making.
In this hilarious novel, Harry Burton, a bachelor white-goods salesman, goes to take care of his sister Helen’s two little boys for ten days while she and her husband are out of town. Helen says, “The children won’t give you the slightest trouble; they’re the best children in the world!” but, as you can imagine, Toddie and Budge are always up to something, and all sorts of comic mischief ensues. It just so happens that there’s a lovely young lady in the neighborhood whom Harry admires very much, but she always seems to be passing by when he’s deep in some terrible mess of the boys’ making.
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"Delighting myself with the idea that I deserve most of the credit for the lots of reading you will have done by this time, and hoping I shall soon have a line telling me how my darlings are, I am as ever,
"Your loving sister,
"HELEN."
Seldom have I been so roused by a letter as I was by this one, and never did I promise myself more genuine pleasure in writing a reply. I determined that it should be a masterpiece of analysis and of calm yet forcible expression of opinion.
Upon one s. . . Read More
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I have read an awful lot of Victorian fiction, but this is the first time I've encountered anything quite like this. It's a rather lovely, funny, and - surprisingly - still relevant today to a modern reader, tale of a bachelor Uncle who gets stuck looking after his sister's "adorable" sons whilst sh
A charming and funny forgotten classic about a 28 year old white goods salesman from New York who spends 10 summer days looking after his sister's two children whilst she and her husband go on holiday.
Oh, I can sympathize! I don’t care how dearly you love children; there are just times that they try your patience. Habberton did such an excellent job of capturing that over the top frustration, and the equally over the top devotion they inspire.
It’s also funny in a totally realistic way. The boy
The narrator's sister wants to visit an old school friend with her husband, so would he like to be Man of the House, keeping burglars and servants from running off with the silverware, and occasionally keeping an eye on the titular babies: his five- and three-year-old nephews? Our Hero, a youngish C
You can blame my reading this story on G.K. Chesterton and George Orwell, both of whom wrote favorably about it. And a semantic note: toddler was a 20th century invention; at the time this book was written, "baby" extended up to the age of about five. Which helps explain the title with the youngster