The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1881-04-07


Fob the aih is Mathew waw;
And, ah-bwing your wuhbsrs, dea-wastt--
The ahtc ones, you know, slova. = A.
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The Story Told to METH Rose.
,, Mabel c. Doud IN elYouth's Companion
Now, Meta Rose" said Mamie, to the
aaxaped- haired dolly, If you will sit very
still, and not mass your pink dress. I vii,
tell you 3, story. Il isn't wrong story,
Meta Rose, snd il isn't made-up story.
It's really, truly story, about what i,ppaa-.
ed to little girl; ara fou listening, il eta.
Rose?" giving the pink -.o;ed Iass;e q little
shake. Welt; once Ga time thpre was q
little girl aboat ~ big - me-" Shs lived in
pretty house, With hsf papa and p1a,nna..
WASH st happy, 80, 1T Ssasie ST!
4Au tia ittls girls in story books have
golden curls, and most all real Etsle girlr
have light blow1$ or black hai:; but this
Little girls half wasn't like a,,r i>oav's elses--
it was red: Just think Of that, Meta Rose!
What should you DO if your hair was red,
instead of light and hafyf But this Ittla
girl wouldn't have felt SO very bad about it,
only hsr mamma wouldn't 1e< fsr wear itsloag
and crir1peds ike the ether 1hittl girls she
played with. No, her papa took her to the
barber's one day. and hs cut it OF just as
close with soma horrid. great scissors, and
then he brushed it dawn s1,ostl, and tight
without putting stas least mite OF a;c1rl IN
and cried and criedl And her brothe.
said; What makes yo1scry; Red-top?" and
that made her cry Ill the hardar.. And that's
all, about her Aairl -, 90. -, < g., =.
Then this kttle gifts nose wasn't straight
and pretty, 50 folks gouldn't; keep talking
about it, like other little gi=ls noses. 1t was
real short and turned up at the end, and
everybody that came to see her mamma
said, S"whsre did she get sach pug nose?:
And when her sister got mad at her she
called her PIGGY which made. ths. little,
girl feel real bad, and sometimes when her
sister wasn't looking She cry. And that's
all about her noset ~ ".. =, Vs.,
'',This little girls ace wasn't oil nice and
white, with Just rink> checks. Like yours,
Meta Rose: II WIS frecklsd all over. and
she could never run out doors without her
hat, ike other little girls, COZ he: mammal
always'say; Don't forget your haiti I boz
ieve mus: make that child q: sun bennet;.
she's getting SO freokled she wont'bs fit to
he seem Sometimes her papa called her
t3yOsAts ~AVl AoAs wv a. nosoc WIS 44uUy q
bit, Meta Rose. And that's Ill about her
frecklssi i '~
: Then there was one other draadfalthina
that aada the little girl feel 50 bad, and
that was-she was Eat! Everybody said,
What little dump you ore! and one day
her sister said, Come, little Fatty. run up
stairs and get my book and when tho
little girl got upstnirs she went and hid In.
the garret and cried and cried! -
Big folks don't seem to think Nttls girls
have any feelings, Meta Bose. and they keep
hurting them sysry day: When get to be
big and Eee anybody with red hair and
freokiesE and q; little pug nose and real tat,
I'll say, You're just darling. and love
you as we'll as if you had yellow, curly hair
and looked like other little girls and then
won't that little girl be glad! But nobody
knows that this httle girl cares If they do
call her Spotty and Puggy and +Red.top,
because she's 80 pre- ond that she laughs as
hard whom it's all cry inside. And that's
the end Of tho story, Meta Rose,1 and it's
svery word true."
,Mamie's hair is just as bright color az
1T 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 tall
in, glossy waves over her plump shoulders.
But she does not seem to be unhappy about
il any more, for her brother never calls her
BED: top now:z Her .dimpled lace shows Is
many freckles as it used, But papa never re-
minds his little girl Of them BY calling her
6potty. No one would suppose he ever
noticed them. Mamie's roly poly figure
has grown no mote slender since that day,
aud hex nose turns up az abruptly as ever:
but the nickname Of Fatty and PIGGY seem
TO be forgotten, aud the little girl is as light
hearted and merry as any other fair haired,
:frscklsss play.nates.
9ii It may be that somebody stole softly up
stairs one afternoon and overheard tha sto-
~ that was told to Meta Rose.
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