The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1883-03-29


MAS upstairs changing her dress,
said the freckle-faced little girl, tying
her dolls bonnet strings and casting Der
eye about for tidy large enough to
serve as a shawl for that double-jointed
young person.
"Oh, your mother needn't dress mp for
me. replied the female agent of the mis-.
sionary society, taking self-satisfied
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 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 dickens" and 1
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 more money to buy hymn books to
send 'em. Say, do the niger ladies use
hymn-book leaves to do their hair up on
and make it frizzy? Ma says she guesses
that's all the good the books do EN-, if
they ever get any books. I wish my
doll was heathen."
"Why, you wicked little girl, what do
you want Of heather doll9" inquired the
missionary lady taking a mental in
ventory of the new things in the parlor
to get material for homily 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'd
have hair to friz, and want doll with
curly hair and eyes that roll up like
Deacon Sliderback's when he says amen
on Sunday. Iain't wicked girl. either,
cause Uncle Dick-you know he's
been out West 'Snd swears
awful and smokes in the house-he
says I'm holy terror, and he hopes I'll
be an angel pretty soon. Mall be down
in q minute, so you needn't take your
cloak of. She eaid she'd box my ears if
1sked 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 new muff worse than the queen
OF the cannon ball islands needed religion.
Uncle Dick says you oughter go to the
islands. cause you'd be safe there. and
the, natifsd be sorry they was such
sinners any body 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 bad, de-
PRAYED wretch, and rght to have remain
ed West, where hisssyic il appreciated.
He sets a horrid example for little girls
like you"
"Oh, I think he's nice. He showed
me how to slide down the banisters, and
he's teaching me to whistle when ma
amt roind. That's pretty cloak you We
get. Do you buy oil your good clothes
with missionary money? Ma says you
do"
Just then the freckled- faced little girls
ma came into the parlor and kissed
the missionary lady or the cheek and
said she was glad to see her. The little
girls ma can't understand why lady
who processes to be so charitable as the
missionary agent does should go right
over to Miss Diamonds and say such i'll
natured things as she did, and she thinks
the missionary is a double-faced old
gossip Boston Globe,