The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1881-04-07
The Story Told 10 Me,a Rose.


The Story Teld 10 Ke,a Rose.
Asbel g. Dowd Ia shass 2outza's Companion.
Now, Meta Rosa.' said Mamie, to the
Aaxaned- haired dolly, If you will sit very
still, ana not mu5s vo,lr pink d1ess. will
tell you j story. i isn't wrong story,
Meta Rose, &nd Il isn't mnl;e-up story
It's really, truly story: shout what happaa-
ed TO little siv!;. are yea listening. Met1
Rose?' giving saa pink --o;,a5 las5;a little
shake. We'll, once On tina :hera waa a
little girl about as Dig us me: She lived; liz
Il pretty house, witt her papa and n.an1a.
and hec big brother aad sister; bat sl.,
aasn's DIT happy, No. nos single BIZ:
AL tha it*la girls in =;tor; books nave
golden cucls, and most al; rev! EtSia girl
have light Eeown or black 'a:; bat this
little girls has: wasn'. like a:sy BODY elsa s.
it was ra:. Jcss think OF that. Metz. hose!
What saoula yt>a 90 If yol1 hAir wss 2ea,
instead Of light aud !!adyf But this Little
girl wouldn't asve fat SO very bal abo1t it,
only hor mamma woulda': le: Ter waa- thong
and cric,ped" like the ut1er little girls she
played with No, her papa took her 10 :he
bazber's ooe Gay. AMI ha cus it of just as
close with soma horr;l. great scissors, AID
then hs brushed it dawn s1i,oas1s Aaa tight
Without putEntg, staa least mite OF c,11i in
it, ana tho si*:te s,:l vent huzoo and cries
and cried End cria1l And her b7o.Ilar
said, What makes you CRY. Red-top:" cad
that made her cry ail tue harder. Asad that's
aii.. about, her hairi r. ..: - =
Then this htts gi-l's noss vAsns straight
and pretty, 80 fo:ss wouldn's. keep talking
about 1t, like o!nar Ntt1:e gi=!'s nosas 1t was
real short and t:lraed up at the end, and
everybody that came 10 sea her n,aus1zl.,
said. t'whare did she gel. s3cb Il pug nose:
And when her s;s:ar got mad al hac sl:,
cailed her PIGGY which lnAla the Little
girl feea -aal bad, aad Sometimes whan her
sister wasn't looking she'd cry Aud th4ts
all about her nose!
'"Ihis Gst:a girls face ~asa's ut MICS, and
white, with just Gink cheeks. uka yo1cs,
Meta Rose. It wa3 frecklsd al oyer, a1d
She could nav1r ru1 ous Goo:s without her
nat. ike other Ettla girls, Tor he: Ma1aula i
always say: Don't forget your hatl Boz
ieve mus: MAKE inst ch;ld q sag boaaet;
she's getting SO Ereokled she woat b. it 10
be seen. So2,eEimea hespapa called her
Sposiy, for fun; bot It uave- w~a3 funny a
bit, Aota asoae. AND that's I'LL about her
freeklasl
~Tasa ths-e WIS ons other draadfai thing
that .aada the little girl feel 50 bad, and
tina: was-she was sat! Everybody said.
What Il little dump sou ore! aa4a one day
her sister said, Come, little Fatty. run ap-
stairs and get tag book aad when tho
little girl go. urstoirs sas went and hid ia.
the garnet and cried and cried!
Big folks don't seem to think ut1's girls
aava any feeliags, Msss Bose. and they keep
hurting them svery day: When I get TO b,
big and nee anybody with red kair and
freckies and a little pug nose aai real fat,
I'll say, You're just darling. .nd love
yo" ss we'll rs if yon mad yellow, curly hair
and looked like other little girls and then
won't that little girl hs glad! But nobody
knows that this Httlo girl cares If they do
call her Spotty and Piggy and Rel.top,
because SHE'S 80 pre- ond that she laughs IS
hard when it's all cry inside. And tscst's
the end Of the story, Meta Rose aud it's
every word true"
NAMES hair is just as bright q color az
it was on the day she told her dolly this
long story about herself. and it will be many
months before it will be long enough to fall
But size does aot seem to be unhappy about
it any more, for her brother never calls her
Red-top aow.:: Her dimpled face shows a
many freckles as it used, but papa never re-
minds his little girl Of them by calling her
Spotty. No one would suppose he ever
noticed them. NAMES roly poly figure
nas grown 40 mote slender since tina: dny,
.4d her aosa tusns Up ~ abruptly as ever;
out the nickname q h'atty and Puggy seem
to be torgotten, and the little girl is as light
hearted and merry Us any Of her fair haired,
RECKLESS piay-natas
Il It may De tt.a* somebody stols softly up
stairs one afternoon and overheard tia sto-
~ that Was tod to Meta Rose.