The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1883-05-05
THE FRECKLE-FACED GIRL.
How She Entertained Visitor
WhiIe Her Ma Was Dressing.


"Ma's upstairs changing her dress, y
sad the ireckle-faced little girl, tying
her dolls bonnet strings and casting
her eye about for tidy large enough
10 serve rs shawl for that double
Jointed young person.
"oh, your mother needn't dress up
Tor me- replied the female agent of
the missionary society, taking self
satisfied view OF herself in the mirror.
"Rnn up and tell her to come down
just as she rs in her every day clothes
and not stand on ceremony
"Oh, but she hasn't got on her
every day clothes. Ma was all dress
ed up IN her new brown silk dress,
cause she expected Miss Dimmond
to-day. Miss Dimmond always comes
over here to show of her nice things,
ana ma doesn't mean to get left.
When Ma saw you coming she said,
the Diekens!' 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, ana you'd ask her for more
money To buy hymn books TO send
'em. Say, do the nigger ladles use
hymn book leaves to DO their hair up
on aud make 1t frizzy? Ma says she
guesses that's all the good the books
do 'em, II they ever get any books. |
wish my doll was neathen.n
"Why, you wicked little girl, what
do you want OF healhen doll?n in
quired the missionary lady, making a
mental inventory Of the rev things in
the parlor To get materaial for hom-
lily on worldly extravaganza.
$50 folks would send her lots of
nice things to wear, and feel sorry to
have her going about naked. Then
she q have halr 10 irizz, aud want
doll with truly hair and eyes that roll
up like Deacon Sliderback's when he
says amen on Sunday. | amt
wicked girl either, cause Uncle Dick,
you know Uncle Dick, he's been
out west and sNears awful and smokes
IN the hoase--he SAYS m holy ter
ror, ana ne hopes Ill be an angel
pretty saou. Mall be down in "A min-
ute, 81 You needn't take your cloak
oil. She said she'd box NY ears ii
asked yon 10. Mas putting on that
old dress she had on last year, 'oause
she said she didn't want ,oa 10 thina
she was able 10 give mu il THIS time,
aud She needed a new muil worse than
the queen OF TIE cannon ball islands
needed religion. Uncle Dick SAYS
you oughter 30 TO the islands, cause
you'd be safe there, and the natIfs'd
be sorry they were such sinners any
body would send you 10 iem. lie
says he never seen heather hungry
enough 10 eat you, less 1t was a blind
one, an you'd set II blind pagan's
teeth on edge So. he'd never banker
after any more missionary. Uncle
Dicks awful funny, aud makes pa
aud ma die laughing sometimes"
"Gonr uncle Richard Is a bad, de-
PRAYED wretch, and ought To have
stayed out west, where his style is APP
preeiated. lie sets horrId example
Tor little girls like you"
"Oh, think he's nice. lie showed
me how To slide down the banisters
and he's teaching me how 10 whistle
when Ma amt round. That's pretty
cloak you've got, amt it? Do you
buy all your good clothes with mis-
sionary money? Ma says yen do
Just then the freekle-faced little
girls ma came into the parlor and
kissed the missionary lady on the
cheek and said she was delighted To
see her, and they proceeded to have
real society chat. The little girls ma
can't understand why person who
Processes TO be so charitable as the
missionary agent does should gorlght
over te Miss Diamonds and say such
ill-nalured things rs she did, and she
thinks the missionary is "A double
faced gossip.