Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1868-08-12
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Pm only q little girl, but | think l
have just as much right to say what l
want TO about things, as boy. l hate
boys, they are 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 Rogers. The other day Gus told
me he was going to let of some fire.
works, and he let Bessie, Nettie and
me go and look at them. All of US
live in q hotel, and his mothers room
has a window with a balcony, and it
was there we had the fireworks right
on the balcony. His mother was 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 stealed
them from the housekeeper. Just
when she was going to put them in her
closet Gus went and told her Mrs. Net
tie wanted her directly q minute, and
while she was gone he grabbed the
soap and the matches, and when she
came back we watched her, and she
got real mad, and she scolded Della,
that's the chsmbermaid, and said she
knowed she did it; and I was glad, be-
cause when ! was turning somersets on
my mothers bed the otner day, Del lia
slapped me, aad she said she wasn't
going to make the bed two times to
please me, then Bessie and me sticked
the match in the soap like ten-pins, and
Gus fired them of, and they blazed
like anything, and they made an awful
smell, and Gus went and turned a lit
tie of the gas on SOS his mother would
think il was that.
We get our dinner with the nurses,
cause the man that keeps the hotel
charges full price for childrsn if they
SIT at the table in the big dining room /;
once my mother let me 90 there with
her, and talked a heap at the table,
and a gentleman that sat next to US
said, "little girls should be seen and
not heard" The mean old thing died
last week and 1 was real glad; and
told Della so, and she said if l went
and said things like that 1 couldn't go
to heaven; much she knows about it.
l wouldn't want TO 60, if dirty old
things like she is went there. Yester-
day Mary, our nurse, told Bessie Nettle's
nurse, that she heard Larry Finnegan
was going to marry her. Larry is one
OF the walters, and he saves candies for
me from the big dining-room. And
Bessie Ntetle's nurse, said, "Oh Lord
what lie !" and Bessie Nettle went in
her mothers room and her little broth
er said she nipped him, and Bessie
said, ''Oh Lord what lie :" and you
should have heard how her mother did
talk to her, and went and shut her up
in q dark room where she kept her
trunks, and didn't let her have moth
ing bur bread and water, and Gus
Rogers went and yelled through the
keyhole, and said, Bessie the devil is
coming to ketch you," and Bessie
screamed aud almost had fit, and her
mother told Mrs. Rogers, and got Gus
licked, and Gus says he's a good mind
to set the house on FIRE some day and
burn her out
One day l went in the paIlor and
creeped under q sofa, and there wasn't
nobody there. They don't let dogs
nor children go in the psrlor, and 1
think it's real mean-snd l creeped
under the sofa. SOS nobody could see
me; and Mr.. Boyce came in and Miss
jackson; l don't like Miss jackson,
she said one day childrens was a worse
nuisance than dogs was. And Mr..
Boyce and Miss Jackson came and sit
ted down on the sofa, and he said,
''0h, Louisa, l do love you so much"
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smack. And she said "0h, Thomas, 1
wish l could believe you, don't you
never kiss any body else ?" and he said,
mo, dearest" (" and I called out, ssOh
what a big story, for | 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-Gus
always says you bet-and he pulled me
out and tored my frock, and he said,
"0h you wicked child, where do you
expect to go for telling stories,D and
told him, you shut up, amt going
anywhere with you" l wish that man
would die like the other did, Sd do,
and don't care whether he goes to
heaven or not.
Gus Rogers mother had a lunch
party in her psrlor, and they had
champagne and they never give me
any, and when his mother wasn't look |
ing he founded bottle half full on the
side board, and he stealed it and took |
it in our nursery, and Mary wasn't
there, and Gus and me drinked out of /
the glass Mary brushes her teeth in,
and it was real nice and we looked in |
Msry's wardrobe and 6nded her frock |
she goes to church in, and Gus put 1t 1
on, and Mary's bonnet, too, and we
went in the hall and we tumbied down /
and tored Mary's frock, and made my
nose bleed, and Gus said, ''0h, there's /
a earthquake" cause we couldn't /
stand up, and you should see how the
house did go up and down; awful; and
Gus and me laid down on the carpet,
and the housekeeper picked me up
and looked me to my mother, and my
mother said, "0h my, whatever have
you been doing?" and l said ''Oh Lord,
[ driuked champagne out of Gus
Rogers mothers bottle in the glass
Mary brushes her teeth in" and the
says, ''oh my goodness
gracious. that child's as tight as bricks"
and said. "you bet-bully for you,"
and then was awful sick, and have
forgotten what else.