Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1870-08-05
Little Girls Martyrdom.

Mr.. BoLEs-I don't know as little
girls ought to put peeces into the paper,
but | and Lille Jones and Susy Baker
and all of us have such orful hard times
we can't help tellin' somebody and our
mammas won't hear word and our pa
pas don't seem to care, but guess they
will when they see it in the paper-don't
you ? We do have such dreaful times,
and | guess you would to, Mr.. Boles, if
you had to hav all the hare in your he'd
BRAIDED up on a dossen big strings every
mite and then jerked and pulled as tite
as ever it Good bee till every hare jump
ed up and down and you had to sleep all
mite on top of a lot of bunches as hard
as rocks pulling all the time without
speck of chance to get your he'd lade
anywhere, OF your mex ether from bed
time till tomorrow morning. | guess
you'd fret and seoul some even if your
mamma or nurse did jerk and shake you
round and tell you to hold still and be
good little girl, shouldn't yoa think you
would, Mr.. Boles, or didn't you ever be
norty when your mother shaked you? |
spose when you see us out walking in
the daylite with our frizzes all bobbin
and flying out inter the wind down our
backs you think it looks nifty pretty and
don't no nuthing about what we've I'M
derwent threw the night before, but |
want you should think how you'd feal if
twas your hare and if you wouldn't
squeel sometimes. My ma sais she docs
it to make me look descent, but grandma
olds--you cau't think what an odd, dear
good old grandma she is-says when lit
| tie gurls wore their hare cut short or on
ly curled up by natur, who / suppose
was the nurse, tha looked ten times nicer
than tha do now cause tha had good
sleep nights and was near like sevil-
lied human beings insted of lik wild AT.
rican blak nigroes whose hare was made
to kinkle without emmy strings at all.
most no she speeks the truth and if tha
didn't look perty tha'd feel perty, and ]
guess feelins more than looks, don't you
My ma allus sais tha is and that We must
not think at all about our looks, but how
: can anybody help it who's lane all night
on pile of bunchy hare? and then had
it all set flying round her head ant
neck ticklin on EN- all the time One
day when it pulled wurser than ever
asked my ma why God didn' make my
hare kinked up just like black Lallys il
, he wanted me to wear it SO and my ps
larfed, but my ma sayed must not b'
pertinent and shaked me good deal.
didn't no was, and let her pull it dread
, ful and only groned incide. Susy sal
, she wants shood tell you about all ou
troubles, she feals just as bad as | do
, Ida Secilia, don't, she likes it, and if yol
Good see her shake herself and jigge
round / guess you'd think she did, bu
Susy and / don't care bit about look
t nor about boys eether, that is boys TO
boze, We like little boys to play with eve
) sa much, but we don't want no boze an6
grandma sais trouble comes soon enut
5 without one beginning with em in ou
sleave apurs. IF you put this in you
paper shall no you like little childrel
: and feel for them and my mama will SCI
| it and / guess will wink her eyes and
7 no papa will larf. May be shall ris
you more about me having to go to nigh
e parties that are wurs trubles than waril
: hare almost, only / don't no which is tn
: wurst-do you?
LAURA SENSIBLE.
J Grandma thinks | spell very well 70
: little gurI.-Sprinafeld Republican.