Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1868-12-04
Little Girl Talk of what is going on
at a Hotel,

I'm only a very little girl, but I think
have as much right to say what I
want to about things, as boy. I hate
boys, they're so mean; they ALWAYS
grab all the Strawberries at the dinner
table, and never tell us when they're
going to have any fun. ONLY I like
Gus Rodgers. The other day Gus told
ne he was going to let off some fire.
works, and he let Bessie Nettle and me
go and look at them. All of us live In
hotel, and his mothers room has q
window with balcony, and it was
there we had the fireworks right on the
balcony. His mother had gone out to
buy some creme de lis to put on her
face. and he'd Went and got eleven
boxes OF Lucifer matches, and ever SO
many pieces Of CASTLE soap; he steeled
them from the housekeeper. just when
she went to put them in her closet Gus
went and told her Mrs. Nettle wanted
her minute, and while she was gone
he grabbed the soap and matches, and
Wnenl she came back we watched her,
and she got real mad, and he scolded
Della, that's the chambermaid, and
said she knowed she did it, and / was
real glad, because when was turning
somersets on my mothers bed the 9TH
er day, Della slapped me, and said she
wasn't going to make the bed two times
to please me; then Bessie and me stick
co 5he matches in the soap like ten-pins
ana GuS nred them off. and kbev b1aZed
like anything, and they made an aW-
full smell, and Gus went and turned a
it was that.
We get our dinner with the nurses,
cause the man that keeps the hotel
charges full price for children if they
sit at the big table in the dining room;
once "a y mother let me go there with
her, and talked heap at the table,
and a gentleman that sat next to as
said, Little girls should be seen and
not heard" The mean old thing died
last week and was real glad, and told
Della so, and she said if I went
and said things like that
couldn't go to Heaven. Much she knows
about It, wouldn't want to go there if
dirty old things like she is went there.
Yesterday Mary, our nurse, told Bessie
GetELe's nurse that she heard Larry
F1nnegan was going to marry her
Larry is one ofthe walters. and he saves
candies for me from the big dining room,
And Bessie Nettle's nurse said: stOh,
Lord! what q liei@ and Bessie NettIe
went In her mothers room, and her lit
tie brother said she nipped him, and
Bessie said eOh, Lordi what IieI'5 and
| you should have heard how her mother
| did talk to her, and went and shut her
up IN dark room where she kept her
| trunks, and didn't let her have nothing
put bread and water, and Gus Rogers
Went aud yelled through the key-hols
ana said, "Bessiey the devil is coming
| to fetch you," and Bessie screamed and
almost had fit, and her mother told
| Mrs. Rogers, and got Gus licked, and
| Gus says he's good mind to set the
house on fire some day and burn her
OUT
One day I went in the parlor and
/ creeped under sofa, and there wasn't
nobody there. They don't let dogs nor
children go in the parlor, and I think
/ It's real mean-and had to creep un-
der the sofa, so nobody could see me;
and Mr. Boyce came in and Miss jack
son; don't like Miss Jackson; she said
1 one day children was q worse nuisance
| than dogs. And Mr.. BOyce and Miss
| jackson came and sitted down on the
sofa, and he said, go, Louisa. do love
| you so much," and then he kissed her.
| heard IL smack. And she said, so,
Thomas, / wish I could believe you;
don't you never kiss anybody else?''
and he said, mo dearest p and called
out 30 what big story, for I saw him
kiss Bessie Nettle's nurse in the hall
one night when the gas was turned
down." Didn't he jump up, you bet
and pulled me out and tored my frock,
and said, so you wicked child, where
do you expect to go to for telling stor-
iesI' and told him you shut up, ]
amt going anywhere with vou.D wish
that man would die like the other did,
sol do, and don't care whether he
goes to Heaven or not.
Gus RogerO' mother had lunch par
ty in her parlor, and they had cham
pagne and they never gave him any,
and when his mother wasn't looking
he founded bottle half full on this
| side-bOard, and he steeled it and took Il
in our nursery, and Mary wasn't there
and Gus and me drinked it out of the
! glass. Mary brushes her teeth in it.
and it was real nice; and we looked in
Mary's wardrobe and finded her froeA
I'll she goes to church in; and Gus put i
on, and Mary's bonnet, too, and wa
! went in the hall and we tumbled dowr
! and tored Mary's frock, and made my
) nose bleed, and Gus said, SO, there,
, a earthquake" !" cause we couldn't stanC
up, and you should see how the housl
I did go up and down, awful; and GU
and me laid down on the carpet, RnC
I the housekeeper picked me up RnG
: looked me to my mother, and my moth
/ er said, o my whatever have you beer
/ doin ?" and said, o Lord, I drinkeC
' champagne out of Gus Rogers
mothers bottle in the glass Mar!
J brushes her teeth in, )" and the house
e keeper says, 80 my goodness gracious
2 that child's as tight as BRICKS" and
1 said ''yOu bet, bully for you" and thel
: was awful sick, and have forgotten
/ what else.