Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-06-21
From the Auburn American.
A Railroad Incident.

II was late. The lamps of the car burned dimly.
In one seat we're " happy couple" rejoicing In
carpet-bag, two band-boxes, a basket u brown pa
per parcel, and sleeping cherub." Suddenly
cherub--a girl of some three years experience in
this strange wofld--awoke from ones of those long
undisturbed slumbers that are azp0ng the inaiena-
BILE prerogatives of blameless childhood and climb
ed up 30 as TO stand and look over the back OF the
seat Two care-worn travel-weafy and halfawake
men sat directly In front of the iniocentttle crea-
ture. They looked as il they had been on board
of railroad cars for month, and had journeyed
from the regions about sunset The great, curious
ewes of the child fell upon them. She scanned
carefully the faces of each, and one would have
deemed her to be an infantile physognomst- Pre-
senty one of them looked at her. II was evident
that she rather liked him. OF the two, and had about
made up her mind to speak to him; Tor instantly
her little voice was heard, as she piped out the
query;
Does you love little girls" !.
The man looked at her moment rather gruffiy,
| and then replied:
| "No--I don't"
| A shade of unutterable disappointment and sur
prise was instantly daguerreotyped upon the sweet
and blooming countenance Of the child, but passed
away when she replied
"Yes--you do"
| The man reused himself and took another look.
| He was evidently both puzzled and Interested;
and he said
How do you know ]"
| And she replied
"Cause you looked as If you did"
This thawed him out some, and he said:
/ ~ have got little girl at home"
The little questoner now evidently felt that she
was on the Fright track and after a look that
showed that this intelligence presented new aud
unexpected view of the affair, renewed the conver.
sation earnestly, and the following colloquy ensued:
"Does you love your little grlY'
Aye"
els she real good little girlf'
Sometimes she is !"
els she naughty sometimes"
| eyes"
"Does she 20 down in the kitchen when she
hadn't ought to do ?"
Yes sometimes" .
"Do you whip your little girl when she il,
naughty 7"
"Sometimes."
Does she cry when you talk to her, and tell
her she is naughty"
"Yesn
"Then do you whip her ~
" Sometimes"
"when she says she is sorry do you whip her
HenT
"No, never"
The little creatures eyes danced and sparkled at
this, and drawing conclusions, and no doubt from
her own experience, she exclaimed:
"rs real glad, / is."
Then looking at the other man, who had refused
to answer the question she had put to him, she
said to her newly-made friend with look Of
wonder
"Tbat man won't speak to me! Does he love
little girlsY'
The man had heart somewhere and he thawed
out. Rousing himself he extended his brawny
! hand and said
, How do you do, sissy
And the little creature, not altogether at her
|, ease, replied
ais pretty well-how is your
By this time all within hearing Of the colloquy
were moved to tears--the eyes Of the parents oi
the little prattler we're full to overhowing-and
those who we're nearest heard one Of the men she
: had questioned say to the other:
"She's little WITCH
And 90 she was Her blooming beauty and her
infantile artessness powerful enough to break
through the roughness, the WEAKNESS, the reserve
and the Indifference Of the travelworn men OF the
world and 10 melt them 10 tears.
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