The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1869-01-07


Ia slapped me, and said she wasn't go
ing to make the bed two times to please
me; then Bessie aud me sticked the
matches 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 a 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 children If they sit
at the table in the big. dining room.-
Once, my mother let me go down with
her, and talked a heap at the table,
and gentleman, that set next us, said
little girls should be seen and not
heard.' The mean old thing died Inst
week, and was real glad. and / told
Della 30, and she said Il went a1d talk.
ed 80 / oo0ld'a % lsnl 80
she knows about that; and woui0n't
want to go If dirty old thing like she
is went there. Yesterday Mary our
nurse, told Bessie NettIc's nurse that
she heard that Larry Finnegan was 20
ing to marry her. Larry Is one of the
walters, and he saves candies for me
from the big dining room; and Bcssie's
nurse said, ooh Lord! what a lie ~
and Bessie went ia her mothers room.
and her little brother said she nipped
him, and Bessie said, ooh Lord! what
a lie" and you should have heard how
her mother did talk to her, 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 and yelled through the keyhole,
and said, Bessie, the devil is coming to
fetch you," and Bessie screamed and
almost had a fit, and her mother told
Mrs. Rogers, and got Gus licked, and
Gus says he's a mind to set the house
on fire some day, and burn her out
One day went into the pa:lur and
creoped 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
MIR. Boyce came in, and Miss Jackson;
she said one day that children was a
worse nuisance than dogs And Mr..
Boyce aud Miss Jackson came i'm and
sitted down Oh the sofa and he said.
"Oh Louisa, l 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,
mo Dearest and yelled out, 80,
what big story! for | saw you kiss
Bessie Nettle's nurse in the hall one
night, when the gas was turned down."
Didn't he jump up, you bet? and then
he pulled me out and torcd my dress,
and said, "Oh, you wicked child where
do you expect to go for telling such sto-
ries?' and told him "Iou shut up, |
ain'tgoing anywhere with you" [
wish that man would die, like the other
one, SO do; and don't care whether he
goes to heaven or not.
"us iouScI > nlotlcF llau Il 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 found a bottle half full on the side.
board, and he stcelcd it and took il in
our nursery; and Mary wasn'tthere, aud
Gus and me drinked it out Of the glass
Mary brushes her teeth in; and it WAS
real nice; and we looked in Mary. ward
robe, and found her frock She goes to
church in; and Gus put it on, and Ma
rvs bonnet too; and we went in the
hall, and tumblcd down and torcd Ma
rvs frock, and made my nose bleed: and
Gus said, "Oh, there's earthuuake,"
cause we couldn't stand up and vou
should see how the house did go up and
down, awful; and Gus aud me laid down
on the carpet, and the otlsc.keeper
picked me up and looked me to my
mothers room, and my mother said,
ION my! whatever have You been do
ing?' and | said, "Oh, Lord. | drinked
campaigne out of Gus Rodgers mothers
bottle, in the glass that Mary brushes
her teeth in" And the houseleeper says
'Oh, my goodness gracious, thai child's
as tight rs bricks;' and Isaid "Ion bet
bully foryou;' and then | was awful
sick, and I've forgot what else.