The Baltimore County union., 1883-03-31
THE FREcKLED-FAcE GIRL.
How She Entertained Visitor While Her
Ma Was Dressing.

Bosf0H Sfobe.
"Ma's upstairs changing her Dress"
said the freckled face little girl, tying
her dolls bonnet strings and casting
her eye about for tidy large enough to
serve as shawl for that double jointed
young person.
"Oh, your mother needn't dress up
for me-" replied the female agent Of
the missionary society, taking a self
satisfied view of herself in the mirror.
"Run up and tell her to come down
just as she is in her everyday 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 of her
nice things and ma don't mean to get
left. When ma saw you coming she
said, The DickensI and guess she
was mad about something. Ma said IL
you saw her new dress she'd have to
hear all about the poor heathen, 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
and make it frizzya Ma says she guesses
that's all the good the books do 'em, if
they ever get any books. wish my
doll was heathen."
"Why, you wicked little girl, what
do you want of heathen doll 2" in
quired the missionary lady taking a
mental inventory of the new things in
the parlor to get material for a 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 frizz and want a doll with
truly hair and eyes that roll up like
Deacon Sliderback's when he says amen
on Sunday. ANITA 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 4 holy terror and he hopes I'll be
an angel pretty soon. Mall be down
in a minute, so you needn't take your
cloak off. She said She box my ears
il 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 islands needed
religion. Uncle Dick says you ought to
90 to the islands, cause you'd he safe
there and the natifs'd be sorry they was
such sinners anybody would send you
to 'em. He says he never seen heathen
hungry enough to eat you, less twas a
blind one, ard 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
laughing sometimes.
"Your Uncle Richard is a bad, de-
praved wretch, and ought to have re-
maincd out west, where his style is
appreciated. He sets horrid example
for little girls like you"
"Oh, 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 freckled faced little girls
ma came into the parlor and kissed the
missionary lady on the check and said
she was delighted TO see her and they
proceeded to have real sociable chat.
The little girls ma can't understand
why 4 person who processes to be so
charitable as the missionary agent does,
should go righ, over to Miss Diamonds
and say such ill-natured things as she
did, and she thinks the missionary is
double. faced gossip.