The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-03-18
The Wicked Little Girl.


''Ma's up stairs changing her
Dress" said the iEeCkle-faCed girl, ty'
ing her dole bonnet-stTings and cast
ing her eye about for o tidy large
enouge 20 serve az O shawl for that
double jointed young person.
''Oh, your mother needn'tdress up
for me-" replied the female agent OF
the missionary society, taking Ge L.
satisfied view Of herself in the mir
EoF. ''Run up and tell her to come
down Just Oh she 10 in her everyday
clothes, and not to stand on cere-
mony."
On, bnt she hasn't got on her
everyday clothes. Ma was all
dressed up in her new brown silk, be.
cause she expected Miss Dimond to-
day. Miss Dimond always comes
ovsr here to show OF her nice things.
and ma don't mean to get left.
When ma saw you coming she said
The DiCkensl' and / guess she was
mad about something. Ma said il
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 'em. Say, do the niger ladies
use hymn book leaves to do their hair
up and make it trizzy7 Ma says she
guesses that's all the good the books
do 'em, il they ever get any books.
/ wish my doll was q heather"
"Why, you wicked little gIrl; what
do you want with a heather dollS"
inquired the missionary lady, taking
q mental inventory of the new things
in tho paEloP to get material tor a
homily Cd worldly extravaganza.
80 folks would send her lots OF
nice things to wear and feel sorry to
have Der going about naked. Then
shed have her hair 10 friz; and l
want doll with truly hair and eyes
that roll up like Deacon Sliderbsck's
when he says amen on Sunday. l
ain't q wicked girl either, cause
Uncle Diok-you know Uncle Dick /;
he's been out west. and sWears awful
and smokes in the house-he says
I'n holy terror and he hopes Til
be an angel pretty soon. Mall be
down in 9 minute, go you needn' take
your cloak of. She said she'd box
my ears il asked you to. Ms'sput-
ting on that old dress she bad last
year, cause zee said she didn't want
you to think she was able to give
much this time, and she needed q
new muf worse than the queen OF the
Cannon Ball Islands needed religion.
Uncle Dick says you oughteF go 70
the islands, cause you'd be sale there,
and the nstiis'd be sorry they was
such sinners anybody would send you
TO 'em. He says he never seen q
heather hungry enough to eat you
less twas blind one, and you'd sci
a blind pagsu's teeth on edge 90 he'd
never banker after any more Inis-
sionary. Uncle Dicks awful funny
and makes pa and ma die laughing
sometimes.
"H our Uncle Richard is a bad de-
PRAYED wretch, and ought to have
remained out west, where his style i
appreciated. He sets horrid ex
ample for little gils like you"
"Oh, / think he's nice. He sboWet
me how to slide down the bsnnisters
and he's teaching me to whistle Whel
ma amt round. That's @ prett
cloak you've got on, amt it! Do yoI
buy all your good clothes With mis-
sionary money? Ma says you do"
Just then the Ireckled-fsced littl
girIs's ma came into the parlor an
kissed the missionary lady on Oh
ckeek and said she was delighted t
see her, and they proceeded to hav
o real social chat. The little girl
ma can't understand why @ peIso
who processes to be 90 charitable O
the missionary agent does, should 6
right over TO Miss Dimond's and So
such i'll nstured thinge as she did
and she thinks the missionary 10
doubled-iaced gossip.-Boston Globe.