The Shasta courier., 1869-02-13
Experiences of Naughty Little Girl.

M only little girl, but think | have
as much right to say what l want to about
lhlnss as boy. hate boys; they are
50 mean; they always grab all the straw
berries at the dinner table, and never tell
~ mhen they are going to have any fun.
Only | like Gus Rogers. The other day
u US 'oid me ne was going to let off some
fireworks, and he let Bessie Nettle and me
go and look at them All of us live in a
notei' ana his mothers room has window
with balcony. His mother was gone ont
TO ouy some creme de Us to put on her face
and he'd went and got eleven boxes of
iuclfer matches, and ever so manv nieces
oi castie soap; he steeled them from the
nousekeeper just when she went to put
them IN her closet, G US went and told her
Mrs. Nettle wanted her a minute, and
Whlle she was gone he grabbed the soap
and matches, and when she came back he
watched her; and she got real mad, and
she scolded Della (that is the chamber
maid), and said she knowed she did it, and
l was real glad, because when was somer-
sets on my mothers bed the other day.
Della slapped me, and said she wasn't 90
ing to make the bed two times to please
me then Bessie and me sticked the match
es in the soap like ten pins, and Gus fired
them off, and they blazed like ANYTHING,
and they made an awful smell, and Gus
went and turned little gas on SOS 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 the children if they sit at the
table In the big dinning-room. Once nv
mother let me go down with her and /
talked heap at the table, and gentleman
that 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
l went and said such things ike that
| couldn't so to heaven. Much she knows
about 1t; and | wouldn't want to 90 if
dirty things like she is went there. Yes
terday 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 dlnning-room; and Bessie Nettle
nurse said, "O Oh, Lord what a lie .p and
Bessie Nettle went into her mothers room
and her little brother said she nipped him.
and Bessie said, g Oh, Lord what lie p
ana 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 dldn t let her have nothing but bread
and water; and Gus Rogers went and
yelled through the keyhole and said, " Bes-
sic, 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 mind to set the
house on fire some day and burn her out.
One day L went into the parlor and
creeped under the sofa, and there wasn't
nobody there. They don't let dogs nor
children go into the parlor, and [ think it's
real mean; and | had to creep under the
sofa SO nobody could see me; and Mr..
Boyce came in, and Miss Jackson; she
said one day that children was worse nui-
sance than dogs. And Mr. Boyce and
Miss jackson came in and sitted down on
the sofa, and he said "Oh Louisa, |
do love you so much" and then he kissed
her, for | heard it smack And then she
said: Oh Thomas, do wish | could
believe you; don't you never kiss anybody
else = And he said f" No, dearest" and
yelled OUT "Oh, what big story p
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
And he pulled me out and tored my frock,
and he said: "Oh, you wicked child,
where do you expect to go to for telling
such stories p And | told him: "You
shut up; aint going anywhere with you.
l wish that man would die, like the other
one, SO | do; and don't care whether he
goes to heaven or not.
Gus Rogers mother had lunch party
IN her parlor, and they had champagne,
and they never gave him any; and when
his mother wasn't looking he found bot
tie half full on the sideboard, and he steal
ed lt.and took it in our nursery; and Mary
wasn't there, and Gus and me drinked 1t
out OF the glass Mary brushes her teeth in,
and 1t was real nice; and we looked in
Marys wardrobe and found her frock she
goes to church in and Gus put it on, and
Mary bonnet, too; and we went into the
hall, and we tumbled down and tored
Marys trock and made my nose bleed and
Gus said, ooh, there's a earthquake n'
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 mothers room, and
my mother said, ooh, my whatever have
you been doing ?" and said, ooh, Lord
| drinked champagne out of Gus Rogers
mothers bottle, in the glass that Mary
brushes her teeth in." And the house
keeper says, ooh, my goodness gracious !
that child's as tight as bricks;" and l said,
You bet; bully for you;" and then was
awful sick, and I've forgot what else
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