The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1883-03-29
The Wicked Little Girl.

Mas up stairs changing her dress" +"
said the freckle- faced little girl, tying
her doll 8 b0nnet-s string and casting her
eye about for 4 tidy large enough to
serve as Il shawl for that double iointed
young person.
"Ob, your mother needn't dress up for
me-" replied the female agent Of the
Missionary Society, taking a self-satisficd
view OF herself in the mirror. "Run up
and tell her to come down just as she is
in her every day 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 Dimond to day. Miss Dimond al.
ways 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 Dickens 7 and guess she was mad
about something. Ma said if you saw
heE new dress she'd nave 10 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
nigger ladies use hymn bookleavcs to do
their hair up on and make it frizzy :?
Ma says she guesses that's all the good
the books do 'em, if they ever get any
books l wish my doll was a heathen."
"Why you wicked little girl; what do
you want Of heather doll ?" inquired
the missionary lady, taking a mental
inventory of the new things in the par
lor to get material for homily OH
worldly extravagance.
$50 folks would send her lots Of nice
things to wear and feel sorry &c have her
goiEk about naked. Then shed have
hair to friz; and want doll with truly
hair and eyes that roll up like Deacon
SlideFback's 3 when he says amen on Sun
day. l amt 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 I'm a holy
terror and he hopes I'll be an angel pret-
ty soon. Nall be down in minute, 80
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 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 Queen of the Cannon
Ball Island needed religion. Uncle
Dick says you oughter 60 to the Island,
cause you'd be safe there, and that
na,ifs'd be sorry they was such sinners
anybody would send you to 'em. He
says he never seen heather hungry
enough to eat you, less twas blind
one, an you'd set 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 laugh.
ing sometimes"
"Your Uncle Richard is a bad, deprav.
ed wretch, and ought to have remained
out West, where bis style.is appreciated.
He sets horrid example for little girls
like you"
"Oh, 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 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 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 a real sociable chat.
The little girls ma can't understand why
a person Hho processes I'd be so charitable
as the missionary agent does, should go
right over to Miss Dimond's and say such
illnatured things as she did, and she
thinks the missionary is a doube'taced
go.sip.-Dosfon Globe.