The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1869-01-29
JUVENILE FRAFRHEss.
Little StoeetneSS Tells about What is Going
on at the Hotel

on at the Hotel.
| I'm only little girl, but | think
have n much right to say what | want
to about things AS boy. hate boys I;
| they're so mean they always grab all
| the strawberries at the dinner table,
| and never tell us when they are going
to have any fun, Only ike Gus Rog-
ers. The other day Gus told me that
he was going to let of some fireworks.
and he ltt Bessie Nettle and mel 20 and
look at them, All Of us live ina hotel
and his mothers room has window
with balcony. His mother was gone
| out to buy some cream de lis to put on
her face, and he'd went and got eleven
| boxes OF lucitcr matches, and ever so
many pieces of CASTLE soap; he stealed
| them from the housekeeper. Just when
she went to put them in her closet. Gus
went and told her Mrs. Nettles wanted
| her a inmate, and while she was gone
| he grabbed the soap and matches, and
when she came back he watched her !;
| and she got real mad, and scolded Della,
| tthat is the chambermaftl.) and said she
! knowed she did it, and was real glad
| because when was turning somersets
| on my mothers bed, the other day.
/
| 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 fired them off, and they blazed
| like anything, aud they made an awful
smell, and Gus went and turned lirtle
lsas on. so his mother would think 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 til. table IN the big dining room.-
| Once my mother let me go with her,
and talked q heap at the table, and q
| gentleman. who sat next to us, 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 | went on and
| said things like that | couldn't go to
| heaven. Much she knows about is !;
| and wouldn't want to go If dirty old
| things like she went there. Yesterday
! Mary. my 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 candles for
me from the big dining and Bessie
| Nettle's nurse said, "Oh, Lord what II
lie - and Bessie Nettlc went in her
mothers room. and her little brother
said she nipped him, and Bessie said.
| "Oh. Lord what a lie !" and you should
have heard how her mother did talk to
| her, and wet and shut her up in n dark
! room where she kept her trunks, and
! didn't let her have nothing but bread
| and water: and Gus Rogers went ana
yelled through the keyh0ls, and said,
''Bessle. the devil is coming to catch
| you,n and Bessie screamed and almost
| had a fit, and her mother told Mr.. Rog-
ers and got Gus licked, and Gus says
he's amind to set the house on fire some
day and burn her out.
One day went into the pnrlor and
creeped under the sofa, and there WASH I
nobody there. They don't let the dogs
nor children go into the parlor and
think its real mean; and | had to creep
under the sofa SO nobody could see me;
and Mr.. Boyce came in, snd Miss Jack
son; she said one day that children was
worse nuisances than dogs. And Mr..
| Boyce and Miss Jackson came in and
! sitted down on the sofa; and lie SAID
"Oh, Louisa, do love you so much. y
And then he kissed her, for heard il
smack. And then she said, "Oh. Thorn.
as. do wish could believe you; don I
. YOU utNCl MISS uOtih EAhA IN
| said. "No dearest And | yelled out
"Oh. uhst big story! for 1 saw hin
kiss Bette Nettie's nurse in the hal
one night when the gas was turned
down." Didn't he jump up, you bet
and he pulled me ont and tored my
lrock, aid he SAID, "Oh you wicked
child, where do you expect TO go TO
telling such stories?o And l told him
You shut up, amt going anywhere
with you.' | wish that man would die
like the other one, SO l do. and don
care whether he goes to heaven or not
Gus Rogers mother had lunch par
ty in her parl0r, aud they had cham
pagne. and they never gave him any
and when his mother wasn't looking III
found n bottle half full on the sdeboard
and he stealed it and took it in our nnr
sery: and Mary wasn't there, and Gu
and me drInked it out of the glass Mar.
brushes her teeth III, and it WAS rea
nice: and we looked in Mary's ward
robe and found her frock she goes t
: church in; and Gus put on, and Nary
bonnet too; and we went into the hal
! AID tumbled down and tore Mary
frock, and madef my nose bleed; an
: Gus said, "Oh there an earthquake,
cause We couldn't stabd up; and yo
: should see how the house did go up an
down, awful; and Gus and me laid dow
/, on the carpet, and the housekeepe
! picked me up and carried me to m
! mothers room, and my mother SAT-
: ''On my ! whatever have you been dc
V ing?" and said, "Oh, Lord drlnke
I champagne out ct Gus Rogers mother
bottle, in the glass that Mary brusht
r her teeth in. And the h0usekee9t
t said, "Oh, my goodness gracious, taa
4 child's as tight as bricks;'n and sait
h You bet, bully for you;" and then.
was awful sick, and forgot what elst
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