"She is just like snow, so soft and white." "And as soundless--she hardly ever cries.

She just lies in this way half the day over, cooing quietly, with her eyes shut.

There, she has caught your dress fast.

Now, was there ever a two months' old baby so quick at noticing things?
and she does it all with her fingers--she touches everything;--ah! take care, doctor," the mother added, reproachfully, at a loud slam of the door, which made the baby tremble all over.
"I never knew a child so susceptible of sounds," said John, as he began talking to it and soothing it;--how strange it was to see him! and yet it seemed quite natural already.

"I think even now she knows the difference between her mother's voice and mine; and any sudden noise always startles her in this way." "She must have astonishingly quick hearing," said the doctor, slightly annoyed.