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to the soothing giddiness that Livingstone
experienced when shaken by the lion that held him in
its jaws.
The old rhyme,
“Lullaby, baby, on the tree top,
When the wind blows the cradle will rock,” &c.,
is probably of Lappish origin, as it is customary to
hang the cradle, or baby-case, in which the infant
is firmly strapped, to a branch of one of the small
birch trees, and leave it swinging there with a
like anæsthetic effect.
During the early stages of babyhood the infant
is deposited in an elongated egg-shaped capsule,
and surrounded or imbedded in dry moss in lieu of
swaddling clothes. This moss is thrown away and
replaced by a fresh supply as often as necessary,
thereby effecting a considerable economy of nursery
laundry labour.
There is one feature of the social and domestic
economy of these little people which has interested
me very deeply, and is suggestive of some
important reflections to the philosopher who studies
the laws of human progress. Most writers tell us
very positively, almost dogmatically, that the
social status of woman advances with the progress
of civilization, and may be regarded as a test of
civilization; that among all barbarous or
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