Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1872-04-25
A Little Giri's Views,

I'm only little gil, but I think I
have as much right to say what ! want to
abou things MS boy. l hate boys /;
they're so mean they always grab Ill
the strawberries at the dinner-tabla and
never tell us when they are going to have
any fun. Only | like Gus Rogers. The
other day Gus said he was going to let
off some fireworks, and he let Bessie
Nettleand me 60 and look at them. All of
us live in a hotel, and his mothers room
has q window with balcony. His mother
was gone out to buy some creme lie lis
to put on her face, and he'd went and got
eleven boxes of lucifer matches, and ever
so many pieces OF CASTLE soap he stealed
them from the housekeeper. Just when
she went to put them in tho closet, Gus
went and told her Mrs. Nette wanted
her n minute, 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 she scolded Della
(that's the chambermaid), and said she
knowed she did it, and / was real glad,
because when 1 was turning summersets
On my mothers bed the other day Della
slapped me, and said she wasn't going to
make the bed twice to please me. Then
Bessie and me sticked the matches into
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 so his
mother would think it was that.
We get our dinner with thenurses,
cause the man that keeps the hotel
charges full price for the children if they
sit at the table in the big dining-room.
Once my mother let Inc go down with
her, and talked heap at the table, and
q gentleman that sat next to us said,
little girls should be seen, and not
heard" The mean old thing died last
week, and l was real glad, and I told
Della so, and she said if / went and said
things like that l couldn't go to Heaven.
Much she knows about it; and [ would
MT want to go there if dirty things like
she is went there. Yesterday Mary, our
nurse, told Bes9e Nettle's nurse that she
heard Larry Finnegan was going to
marry her. Larry is one of the walters,
and he saves candies for Inc from the big
dining-room and Bessie Nettles nurse
said, "Oh, Lord what q lie !" and
Bessie went into her mothers room, and
her little brother said she nipped linn,
and Bessie said, ooh, Lord! what liel"
and you should have heard how her
mother did talk to her, and went and
shut her in dark room where she kept
her trunks, and didn't let her have no.
thing but bread and water, and Gus
Rogers went and yelled through the key
hole, and said, "Bessie, the Devil is
coming to fetch you, and Bessie scream
ed and almost had fit, and her mother
told Mr9, Rogers, aud got Gus licked,
and Gus says he's mind to set the house
on fire, and burn her out
One day l went into the parlor and
creeped under the sofa, and there WASH
anybody there. They don't let dogs nor
children 90 into the parlor, and I had to
creep under the sofa, go nobody could
see me and Mr. Boyce and Miss Jack
son came in and sitted down on the sofa
and he said, "Ob, Louisa, I do love you
30 much, and then lie kissed her, for
heard it smack. And then she said,
"Oh, Thomas, [ do wish 1 could believe
you; don't you neve: kiss anybody
else q And he said, ono, dearest, ="
and yelled out, "Oh, what big story
for I saw him kiss Bessie Nettle's MUSE
in the ball one night after the gas was
turned down." Didn't he jump up
you bet and he pulled me- out and
tore my frock, and he said, ooh, you
wicked clild, you, where do you expect
TO go for telling such stories o. And l
told him, You shut up, I amt going
anywhere with YOU w,sh lie would
die like that other man, 30 l do and
don't care whether he goes to Heaven or
not.