The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1883-04-18
THE WICKED LITTLE GIRL.
Boston Globe.l

Mas upstairs changing her dress, .
said the freckle-faced little girl. tving
her dolls bonnet strings, and casting
her eye about for a tidy large enough to
serve as shawl for that double-iointed
young person.
"Oh, your mother needn't dress mp for
me-, replied the female agent Of the
missionary society, taking a self-satisfied
view Of herself in the mirror. "Run up
and tell her to come down Just as she
Is in her everyday clothes, and not TO
stand on ceremony"
''Oh, but she hasn't got on her every-
day clothes, Ma was all dressed up in
her new brown silk, cause she expected
Miss Dimmond to-day Miss Dimmond
always comes over here to show off her
nice things, and ma don't mean to get
left. When ma saw you coming she
said The DickensH and | guess she was
mad about something. Ma said if you
saw her new dress she'd have to hear all
about the poor heather, who don't have
silk, and you'd ask her for money to buy
hymn books TO send EN-. Say, do the
Niger ladies use hymn book leaves to do
their hair up on and make ii frizzyl Ma
says she guesses that's all the good the
books do 'em, ii they ever get any books.
| wish my doll was a heathen"
'Why, YOU wicked little girl; what do
you want of heather dollg' inquired
the missionary lady, taking mental in
veutory Of the new things in the parlor
to get material for homily on worldly
extravaganza.
80 folks would send her lots of nice
things to wear and feel sorry to have her
going about naked. Then she'd have
hair to friz; and | want doll with tur-
ly hair and eyes that roll up like Deacon
Sliderback's when he says amen on Sun
day. | amt a wicked girl either,
cause Uncle Dick-you know Uncle
Dick, he's been out West, and
swears awful and smokes in the
house he says Pm q holy terror and
he hopes I'll be an angel pretty soon.
Mall be down in a minute, SO you
needn't take your cloak Off She said
she'd box my ears if asked you to.
Mas putting on that old dress she had
last year, cause she didn't want YOU to
think she was able to give much this
time, and she needed new muff worse
than the Queen OF Cannon Ball Islands
needed religion. Uncle Dick says you
oughter go to the islands, cause you'd
be safe there, and the natiffs'd be sorry
they were such sinners anybody would
send you to EN-. He saws he never seen 4
heathen hungry enough to eat you, less
was blind one, an you'd set a blind
pagan's teeth on edge so he'd never
banker after any more missionary.
Uncle Dicks awful funny, and makes pa
and ma die laughing sometimes"
Your Uncle Richard is bad, de-
praved wretch, and ought to have re-
mained out, where his style is appre-
ciate1. He sets horrid example for
little girls like YOU"
ooh, | think he's nice. He showed
me how to slide down the bannisters,
and he's teaching me to whistle when ma
amt round. That's a pretty cloak
you've got, amt it? Do YOU buy all
your good clothes with missionary
money? Ma says you do"
Just then the freckle-faced little girl
ma came into the parlor and kisst d
the missionary lady on the cheek and
said she was delighted to see her, and
they proceeded to have real sociable
chat. The little girls ma can't under
stand why person who processes to be
so charitable as the missionary agent
does should go right over to Miss Dim
minds and say such ill-natured things
as she did, and she thinks the missionary
is a double-faced gossip.