The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1883-03-28
The Bad Boys Sister.

MAS upstairs changing her Dress"
said the freckle-faced girl, tying her
dolls bonnet strings and casting her eye
about for a tidy large enough to serve as
a shawl for the doublejointed person.
ooh, your mother needn't dress up
for me-" replied the female agent Of the
missionary society, taking a self-satisfled
view of herself in the mirror. Run up
and tell her t come down just as she is,
in her everyday clothes, and not stand
on ceremony"
ooh, but she hasn't got on her every
day clothes. Ma was all dressed up in
her new brown silk, cause she expected
Miss Dimond to-day. Miss Djmond al
ways comes over here to show OF her
nice things, and ma don't mean to get
left. When ma saw you coming she
said: The dickens Y and / guess she was
mad about something. Ma said that 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
more none for hymn books to send to
'em. Say, do the niger ladies use the
hymn-book leaves to do their hair up in
and make it frizzy? Ma saysshe guesses
that is all the good the books do 'em, If
they ever get any books. [ wish my doll
was q heathen."
"Why, you wicked little girl, what do
you want with a heather doll?" inquir-
ed the missionary lady, taking a mental
inventory of the new things in the par
lor to got material for a homily ON ex-
trayagance.
$50 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 I want a doll with real
| hair and eyes that roll up like deacon
| Sliderback's when be says amen on Sun
| day. [ amt a wicked girl either, cause
| Uncle Dick-you know Uncle Dick, he's
| peen out west and swears awful and he.
| smokes in the house-he says I'm a holy
terror and he hopes I'll be an angel soon.
| Mall be down in a minute, SO you need
not take your cloak off. She said she'd
| box my ears if / asked you to. Mas put
ting on that old dress she had last year,
cause she said she didn't want you to
think she was able to give much this
time, and she needed a new muf worse
than the of the cannon-ball islands
needs religion. Uncle Dick says you
oughter 90 to the islands, cause you'd
be safe there and the niggers'd be sQary
they were such sinners anybody you'd
send YOU to 'em. He says he never saw
a heather hungry enough to eat you,
unless twas a blind one, and you'd set a
blind pagan's teeth on edge so he'd not
banker after any more missionary. Dick
is awful funny, and makes pa and ma
die laughing sometimes"
"Your Uncle Richard is q bad. de-
PRAYED wretch, and oughteto AVE kept
out west, where his style is appreciated.
He sets a horrid example for little girls
like you"
ssOh, I 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 q pretty cloak
you'v got, amt it? Do you buy all your
good clothes with missionary money?
Ma says you do -,
Just then the freckle-faced little girls
ma came into the parlor and kissed the
missionary lady on the cheek, and said
she was delighted to see her, 2 they
proceeded to have a real sociable chat:
The little girls ma can't understand
WHY q person who processes TO be SO
charitable as the missionary agent does
should 90 right over to Miss Dumont's
and saw such ill-natured things as she
liz and she thinks the missionary is q
double-faced gossip.
a Rir Success.