National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1873-06-09
4 NiuGhrY LITTLE GfItIs VIEWS
or LIFE.

I'm only a little gil, but think have as
much right to say what I want to about
things Us a boy. hate boys; they're 80
moan; they always grab all the Strawberries
at the dinner table, and mover tell us when
they're going to have any fun. Only like
Gus Rivers. The other day Gus told me be
was going to got of some fireworks, and let
Bossey Nettle aud me go and look ut them.
All OF us live In q hotel, and his mothers
mother was gonc out to buy some orome de
lis TO put on her face, and he'd won't and got
eleven boxes OF iucifer matches and ever SO
many pieces OF CASTLE soap. He stealed
them from the housekeeper. Just when she
went to put them In her closet, Gus went and
told her Mn. Nette wanted her 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 Chat Is the chambernaid) and
said she knowed sho did Il, and was real
glad, because when was turning somersets
on my mothers bed tho other day, Della
slapped me and said she wasn't going to
make the bed two times to please me; then
Bessie and me stocked the matches In the
soap like ten pins, and Gus fred them of and
they blazed like anything aud they made an
awful smell and Gus went and turned q
little gas on sos his mother would think 1t
was that.
We get our dinner with the nurses cause
the man that keeps the hotel charges full
price for the children II they sit at the table
| In the big dinlng-room. Once my mother let
ME 20 down with her and talked heap at
| tho table, and n 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 II went and said things like that
| couldn't go to heaven. Much che knows
about Il; and / wouldn't want to go II dirty
things like she Is went there. Yesterday
Mary, our nurse, told Bessie Nettle's nurse
that she heard Larry Finnegan was going to
marry her. Larry Is ont. Of the walters, and
he saves candles Tor me from the big dining.
room; and Bessie Nettle's nurse said, "OR,
Lord what a lei" and Bessie Nettle went
into her mothers room, and her little brother
said she nipped him, and Bessie said, 'NOh,
Lordl what a lie u and you should have heard
how her mother did talk to her, and went and
shut her up In q dark room where she kept
her trunks, and didn't let her have nothing
and yelled through tho keyhole and said,
"Bessie, the devil Is coming TO fetch you -
| aud Bessie screamed and almost had n at, aud
her mother told Mrs. Rogers, and got Gus
| licked, and Gus says he's q mind TO set the
house On FIRE some day and burn her out.
One day went into tho parlor and crept
under the sofa, and there wasn't nobody
there. They don't let dogs nor children 60
Into the parlor, aud think It's real mean;
and so had TO creep under the sofa so no,
body could sec ms; and Mr.. Boyce came In,
and Mrs. Ellasoni she said one day that
children were more nuisance than dogs. And
Mr.. Boyco and Miss Jackson came In and
sltted down on the sofa; and ho said 20,
Louisa, do love you so much" and then he
kissed her, for heard II smack. And then
she said; 40, Thomas, do wish | could
believe YOU don't you ever Kiss anybody
else?" And he said; mo, dearest" and
yelled out, "Oh, what a.blg story, for / saw
him kiss Bessie Nettlcb nurse 10 tho hal
one night, whom the gas was turned down.
Didn't he jump up; you bel and he pulled
me out and tore my frock, and he saldi "Oh
you wicked child where do you expect 10 e
TO for telling such storiesl" and / told him
"You shut upi amt going anywhere witt
you" wish that man would die, like thu
other one, so do; and don't care whethe
he goes 10 Heaven or not.
Gus Rogers mother had a lunch party II
her parlor, and they had champagne, AM
they never gave him any, and when hi
mother wasn't looking he found bottle hal
full on tho 'ideboard, and no stCaled /, an,