Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1870-07-27
Little Girl MartyrdOm.

Mr.. Boles-l don't 10 as little
girls ought to put peeees 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 man.
mas won't hear word and our papas don't
seem to care, but l guess they viii when
they see 1t IN the paper-don't you? We
do have such dreadful times, and | guess
you would to, Mr.. Boles, if you had to
had hav al the hare IN your he'd BRAIDED
up on q dossen big strings every u;te and
ihen iirke5 and pulled as tito as ever 1t
Good bee TIL every hare jumped up and
down and you had TO sleep all nite on top
Of a lot OF bunches as hard as rocks a
pulling all the time without a speck of
chance 10 get your he'd lade anywhere, or
your mex ether from bedtime till tomorrow
morning. L guess you'd fret and seoul
some even if your mamma or nurse did jirk
and shake you round and tell you to hold
still and be a good little girl, shouldn't you
think you wood, Mr.. Boles, or didn't you
ever be norty when your mother shaked
you? | spOse when you see Us out a walkin
in the daylite with our frizzes all bobbin
and n flying out inter the wind down our
backs You think it looks nifty pretty and
don't no nuthing about what we've under
went threw the night before, but l want
you should think how you'd feal if twas
your hare and if you wouldn't squeel some
times. My ma sails she docs it to make
me look descent, but grandma olds--you
can't think what an odd. dear, good old
grandma she is-says when little gurls
wore their hare cut short or only eurled
up by natur, who [ suppose was the nurse,
tina looked ten times nicer than tha do now
cause tha had good sleep a nights and was
moar like sevilized human beings insted
of like wild African blak nigroes whose
hare was made to krinkle without emmy
strings at all. | most no she speeks the
truth and if tina didn't look perty tha'd
feel perty, and l guess feelins more than
looks, don't you My ma allus sails tha is
and that we mustn't think at all about our
looks, but how can anybody help it who:
lane all night on pile of bunchy hare
and then had it all set flying round her
head and neck a tieklin on EN- all the timef
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 II so and my pa
larfed, but my ma sayed | must not bt
pertinent and shaked me a good deal.
didn't no [ was, and let her pull it dreadful
and only groned incide. Susy sais she
wants shood tell you about all our troub
les, she ieals just as bad as 1 do, but Ida
Secilia don't, she likes it, and if you cooG
see her shake herself and jigget round
guess you'd think she did, but Susy and ]
don't care bit about looks nor about boys
eether, that is boys for boze, we like little
boys to play with ever so much, but We
don't want no boze and grandma sais trouble
comes soon enuff without one beginning
with em in our sleave apurns. If you
put this in your paper [ shall no you like
little children and feel for them and my
mama will see it and guess will wink her
eyes and [ no papa viii larf. May be
shall rite you more about me having to 90
to night parties that are wurs trubles than
warm hare almost, only ] don't no which i:
the wurst-do you?
LAURA SENSIBLE.
Grandma thinks [ spell very we'll for a
!. little gurl-SprinQfeld Republican, .Jatls
9th.