The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-12-27
Little swee meas Tells What IL Going on
mt the n otel.

I'm only Tide girl, but think have as much
right to say what want to about things as boy.
l 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
like Gus Rogers. The other day Gus told me be
was going to let of some fire works, aud he let
Bessie, Nettie and me go and look at them. All
of rs live In iIotel, and his mothers room has
out to buy some creme de lis to put on her face.
and he'd went and got eleven boxes of lucifer
matches and evtr so many pieces of CASTLE soap !;
he steaied then' from the housekeeper.
Just when size went to put them in her closet,
Gus went and did her Mrs. Netne wanted her
minute. and While she was gone he grabbed
the soap and mstches, and when she came back
he watched beg. and she got real mad and she
scolded Della Chat is the chambermsid) and said
she knowed she did 1t, and was real glad, be-
cause when was turning somersets on mothers
bed the other day, Della slapped me and said she
wasn't going to make the bed two times to please
me then Bessie and me sticked the matches In
the soap like ten pins, and Gus fred them OIL, and
they blazed like anything, and they made an awful
smell, and Gus went and turned little gas on,
SOS his moiher would think it was that.
We get our dinner with the nurses because the
man that keeps the hotel charges full price for
the children If hey sit at the table in the big din
ing room; once MY mother let me go there with
her, and talked heap at the table, and gentle.
man that sat next to us said Little girls should
be seen and not heard" The mean old thing died
and she said IL went and said things like that,
couldn't go to Heaven. Much she knows about
it,; and | wouldn't want to 20 II dirty old things
like she Is went there. Yesterday Mary. our
nurse, told Btssie Nettles nurse that she heard
Larry Finnegaa was going to marry her. Larry is
one Of the WALTERS, and he saves candies for me
from the big diving room.
And Bessie Netlle's nurse said |" Oh, Lord
what lie !" and Bessie Nettle went Ia her
mothers room. and her little brother said she
dipped him, aud Bessie said: "0h, Lord what a
lie I" aud you should have heard now her mother
did talk TO her, aud went and shut her up In dark
room where she kept her trunks, and didn't let
her have nothing but bread and water, and Gus
Rogers went aad yelled through the keyhole. and
said, Bessie 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 lays he's mind 10 set the house on fire some
day and burn Der out.
One day went into the parlor and creeped
under sofa, and there wasn't nobody there.
They don't let dogs nor children go in the parlor
and think it'f realmean-and had to creep under
the sofa, so nobody could see me; and Mr.. Boyce
came in and Mics Jackson she said one day that
children was worse nuisance than. dogs. And
Mr.. Boyce aud Miss jackson came and sitted
down on the Eofa and he said, 20, Louisa, ! do
love you so mach; )" and then he kissed her. |
heard ii smack. And then she said, " o. Thomas,
/ do wish could believe you; don't you never
kiss anybody else?" and he said, " No, dearest; :"
and yelled ont, 80. what big story, for 1 saw
night, wher me gas was turned down." Didn't
he jump up, you bet-and be pulled me out and
tored my frock, and said, 30, you wicked child
where do you expect to go 10 for telling stories ?''
and told him, q You shut up, amt going any.
where with yon." | wish that man would lie like
the other did, so do, and don't care whether he
goes to heaven or not.
Gus. Rogers's mother had a lunch party in
her parlor, ard they had champagne, and they
never gave him any, aud when his mother wasn't
looking he found bottle half full on the side
board, and he stealed It and took it in our nursery
and Mary wasn't there and Gus. aud me drinked
ii out of tbeigass Mary brushes her teeth in, and
IL was real nice, and we looked in Mary's ward
robe and fnded her frock she goes TO church in,
and Gus. put it on. and Msry's bonnet too and
we went In the hall and we tumbled down aud
tored Mary q frock, and made nv nose bleed, and
Gus. said, "0,ithere's a earthquake ! f" cause we
couldn't stand lp, and you should see how the
house did go up and down. awful and Gus. and .
me laid down On the carpet, and the house-keeyer
picked me up tnd took me TO my mother aud my
mother said, 70 my, what have you been doing!r
and said, g Ct Lord, drinked champagne out of
Gus. Rogers's inothers bottle in the glass Mary
brushes her tefth in ;" and the housekeeper says
o, my goddess gracious, that child's as tights as
bricks" and Y said, "You bet, bully for You"
and then waa awful sick, and have forgotten
what else.