Omaha daily bee., 1883-03-01
THE FRECKLE-FACED GIRL
How She Entertained q Visitor While
Her Ma was Dressing.

Boston Globe
MAS up stairs changing her dress"
said the freckle.faced little girl, tying
her dolls bonnet strings and casting
her eye about for a tidy large enough
to serve as q 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 q she la in her everyday clothes
and not stand on ceremony"
go, but she hasn't got on her every
day clothes. Ma was ali dressed up
her new brown silk, cause she eI.
pected Miss Dlmond to-day. Miss
Dimond 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
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 'um. Say, DE-
the niger m use hymn. book
leaves TO dot heir hair up ON and make
it frizzy? Ma says she guesses that's
all the good 1t does 'em, II they gel
any books. I wish my doll was q
heathen'.
"Why yon wicked little girl, what
do you want CT a heather doll2'
inquired the missionary lady, taking
a mental inventory of the new things
In the parlor to get homily on world.
ly extravaganza
$50 folks would send her lots oil
nice things to wear and feel sorry to
have her going about naked. Then
she'd have hair to frizz, and l want 9
doll with truly hair and eyes that roll
up like Deacon Siiderbsok's when he
says amen on Sunday. I amt a
wicked girl, either, cause Uncle Dick
you know Uncle Dick, he's been oul
west and swears awful and smokes In
the house he says I'm a holy terror
and he hopes I'll be a angel pretty
soon. Mall be down In a minute, sc
you needn't take your cloak off. She
said she'd box my ears IL l 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 need
ed q new muff worse than the queen
Of the cannon ball islands needed re
ltgion. Uncle Dick says you oughtel
60 to the islands, cause you'd be safe
there, and the nstifs'd be sorry they
was such sinners snybybody would
send you to 'em, he says he never
seen a heather hungry enough to eat
you, less 1t was a blind one, an you'd
set ablind pagan's teeth or edge sc
he'd never banker after any more
missionary. Uncle Dicks awful fun.
ny, and makes pa and ma die laugh.
ing sometimes.'
"Your Uncle Rdchard is a bad, de.
PRAYED wretch, and ought to have re.
NAMED out west, where his style is ap.
precisted. He sets a horrible example
for little girls like you"
ooh, l think he's nice. He showed
me how to slide down the bannisters,
and he's teaching me to whistle when
ma amt around. That's q. pretty
cloak you've GOT, amt III Do you
buy all your good clothes with mission.
airy money! M avs you do"
Just then tia f~reckle-faced little
girls ma caue into the parlor and
kissed the missionary lady on the
cheek, and said she was delighted to
see her, and they proceeded to have O
real sociable chat. The little girl's
ma can't understand why a person
who Processes to be 80 charitable az
the missionary agent does should &c
right over to Miss Dimond's and say
such ill.natured things as she did, and
she thinks the missionary Is double.
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