Chapter Chibiabos to Children of C by Brewer's Readers Handbook

Childers (E. W. B.), one of the riders in Sleary’s circus, noted for his vaulting and reckless riding in the character of the “Wild Huntsman of the Prairies.” This compound of groom and actor marries Josephine, Sleary’s daughter.

Kidderminster Childers, son of the above, known in the profession as “Cupid.” He is a diminutive boy, with an old face and facetious manner wholly beyond his years.—Dickens: Hard Times (1854).

Children (The Henneberg). It is said that the countess of Henneberg railed at a beggar for having twins; and the beggar, turning on the countess, who was 42 years old, said, “May you have as many children as there are days in a year!” Sure enough on Good Friday, 1276, the countess brought forth 365 at one birth; all the males were christened John, and all the females Elizabeth. They were buried at a village near La Hague, and the jug is still shown in which they were baptized.

A similar story is told of lady Scarsdale, who reproved a gipsy-woman who applied for alms at Kedleston Hall, because she was about to become a mother. The beggar, turning on her moralizer, said, “When next you are in my condition, may you have as many children at a birth as there are days in the week!” It is said that ere long the lady actually was delivered of seven children at a birth, and that “the fact” is set forth in Latin in Kedleston Church.