, 1877-08-12
ALlIILE GIRLS LOG-BOOK.

CHICAGO, Aug. 11.-Iou are always talking
in your paper about John Sherman and what he
can do with dollar but, If he can't do any better
than his boat, he'd better tear his dollar up or
buy fy-papcr. NY papa, and my sister Nellie,
and ME went over to St. Joe in Mr.. Shcrman's
boat last Thursday and paid 81 for each Of us,
which WIS more than it ever cost. Alr, Sherman
took our money and patted me on the head and
said I was a. good little girl, aud
then told me to get out OF the way.
We'll. We started across the Lake,
and when We got ont a little ways there was the
aslulcst time on that boat you cycr heard OF.
Everybody was sick, and the boat pitched around
like Il rocking chair. Papa was the sickcst OF
the lot, and young lady was sfckcT than he
was. 50 he had to pnt both arms around her
and squeeze her tight to keep anything in her.
I told mamma about it, and how good papa was,
only mamma says he ean'tstny in our house any
more if that sort Of thing is to continue. II it
hadn't been FOR papa that poor girl would have
thrown herself overheard. We all had cabbage
for di1incr, and the sour cTo2t that E'cnt over
the rail of that boat would haveRcpt Dutchnan
for I. mouth. WAS real sick. too. and had On
awful time, and Nellie hasn't got herself
sns,arc1y turned in yet.
Whea wc got over to st. Jce We lclt better,
only the young lady was weak aud papa bad to
hold hcr up, and mamma says ii she had broken
her neck it wouldn't hurt her any. We went up
to a house where papa said VIC would liavc 4
square meal or fight lie didn't care which, and
We cot dlnncr and berries. and pic, only the
pic was like the rest OF rs.-all crust
aad no insides But ~ wc girls ;a cat it, it.,
wlich lated till the potatoes weEc colo and the
butter hot, but VIC didn't mind. Then VIC walked
around, and played. aud had real fun till it was
time to 70 down to a1r. shcrsnan's boat agait;
kf.S- -fr3 fknL bal
yonet Somebody said for us to GO to the rail
road bridge. and VIC went. Jumped on, and
Nellie was ready, but the young lady was too
weak, and papa couldn't leave her. SO he held
Nellie back and the boat started With NC. had
all tue :shaTls and papa's vest With his 1
sad. "Thc Lord viii PROVIDE ~ but reckon the
Lord din't hear him for the splattcr Of tue pad
dies. cause heard him tell mamma when he
got llou:c that lie had to borrow IS to come
l.ome on the Corona.
| Now, Mr.. E:litor, suppose you was little girl
10 ycars old all alone on q boat, you'd set down
and err, I kRow you no.ild; but didn't. l
! didn'tcarc for anything. had all ipapa's money,
for tho hcotfcn, s.Thc hcathcn WAS well
| dxed.' + told Mr.. Sherman about it,
| when he came around for the 81 he makes SO
| mnch fuss about and he said needn't paS'
which didn't
| Oh! but that was I sick crowd on that boat
I sicIcr,n they was going over. ! should think
| fre,n the way thcv acted tho dinner was only
rented aud not sold outright to them 8ut INC
worst Of it was they all went on the side that
| the wind blew against, and the cabbage few
| around that boat like it was pickle~narfel.
| Atr. Anderson and Mrs. Anderson was on inc
| huat, and they we're real kind to me. Wien they
had time. I wasn't sick, only thought 10
! b, t.cr lie down. -
| When VIC got to Chicago cur boarder met nc,
/ and scut me home on car, aud when l got
| home I found he had been keeping house for
mamma while she was sick. Poor mamma Was
soz1c dinner, and he came back with dozen
/ bottles OF beer and two ci9ars. He said that
| kiud Of diet would save washing dishes.
/ Papa come home abont & O'Clock in the morn
| ing looking mighty etrcakcd. dc hal come on
the Corona, and mamma said it wasn't uluch to
| expect OF him that he eyer come 1T all. She
| wanted to know what he meant by leaving her
all alone with q tnan who spent the dav i'll try
| ing to prove that there was more n11SryH1ent m
beer than in bread, aud papa said, & Ny dear
healthy for him around there. When him and
| lcwas down in the kitchen, be told me to say
nothing about the young lady, and
when told him had, he eaie
then he went down in the cellar and chopncd
wood till mamma got to sleep.
Now don't think NC had SIS worth Of 1u1
between ns, and l know papa didn't alter ht
! come home. heard hlnl telling Aellie Ihal
/ t:thc racket wasn't worth the row. SO SUD
pose lie Didn't like it pretty much. We ain''
I 1o:ng across the lake any more, but Aie1tie
| Barlow is coming over to our hou5c
! and the boartlcr says when shs
| comes he'll be q mothcr-in-law to tho crowd,
fof ther'l1 be thunderstorm around our prem
i.cs as sure as q gun. Speaking of guns, OIL
hoar,,cr las got a new pists,l, and tho othc
night lc thought he heard u bur glar or ghost
I aud he startctt down stairs to find him: Nhc1
l hal hpnT
| ayav, ouly he had forgot to put Il
Tbs little round thing with holes in I
| that YOU nut the powder in. II he hat
| known ANYTHING ahort his nistol he would nave