Baby Swallows a Nickel

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"The baby swallowed a nickel! Send for a doctor, quick!" There is nothing that so upsets the peaceful routine of happy domesticity as when some accident befalls Baby. In this case, however, the trouble was all for nothing. Baby did not swallow a nickel. It was like this. Every morning before young Daddy Brown leaves home lie gives his three-year-old baby her daily allowance of five cents for her savings hank. Not being so favored, sister Nellie of six becomes insanely jealous and conspires to steal the baby's nickel the very first opportunity. She carries out the plan, and a few minutes later Mrs. Brown finds the baby on the floor in the library, sobbing her eyes out, the nickel missing. Baby offers no explanation when the frightened mother asks her where the nickel went to, and Mrs. Brown concludes that she must have swallowed it. In the greatest excitement she calls the maid and tells her to send for a doctor, while she will go to the 'phone and call her husband. The maid rushes out, tells the butler and sends him off in an opposite direction. She meets the mailman on the step and he is pressed into service. The butler encounters the neighborhood policeman and he is urged to hurry for a doctor. The butcher-boy also volunteers to find a doctor, and last of all Mrs. Brown rushes out to summon medical aid. It is not long before the M.D.'s arrive, one after the other, six of them. Baby is examined by each one; a funny consultation is held, the doctors all wrangling over how to get the nickel out. The affair ends, however, when sister Nellie appears on the scene, a bag of candy in her hand. She finally explains that it was she who took the nickel and that Baby didn't swallow it at all. The doctors leave in disgust and Nellie gets a spanking and is made to endure the torture of watching her baby sister eat the candy.