The Fat Baby

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This extremely funny picture shows the antics of a baby weighing not less than two hundred pounds. She is in the kitchen helping herself to a piece of bread and jelly. Her appetite is such that nothing less than a loaf of bread and a pot of jam will satisfy her. She comes into the parlor, where the parents are seated, and begins to pout and sits on the edge of the table, upsetting it and causing no end of trouble. The father tries to amuse her by jumping from a chair onto the floor, but when she attempts it, she goes through the bottom and they have great difficulty in extricating her. The parents take her out for a walk and while passing a store she gets her eye on a small rocking horse and frets till she gets it. After mounting it, the combined strength of both parents is barely sufficient to drag it along under her. They come upon a couple seated at a bench in the park and sit beside them to rest, but when the baby sits in the center her terrible weight breaks the bench down, scattering the occupants in all directions. She next gets a doll and toy balloon and is amusing herself when the father takes the balloon away from her and he is so small that he is carried up in the air and dangles around until rescued by his offspring, who carries him in her arms to safety. They finally get her home with the toys and are completely exhausted from the many ordeals of the trip.