The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1883-03-17
The FrecEle-raced Girl.

MAS upstairs changing her dress. !"
said the freckIe-faced little girl. tying
her dolls bonnet strings and casting her
eve about for tidy large enough to
serve as shawl for that double-jointed
young person.
ssOh, your mother needn't dress up for
me-" replied the female agent of the mis-
sionary society, taking 9 self-satisfed
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"
s.Oh. but she nasn'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, s'The dickens!'' and I
guess she was mad about something
Ma said If 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
send 'em. Say, do the niger ladies use
and make it frizzy? Ma says she gnesses
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they ever get any books. wish my
doll was heather.
"Why, you wicked little girl, what do
you want of q heathen doll?" inquired the
missionary lady taking a mental in
ventory of the new things in the parlor
to get material for homily on worldly
extravagance.
$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 doll with
curly hair and eyes that roll up like
Deacon Siiderback's when he says amen
on Sunday. amt a wicked girl either.
cause Uncle Dick--you know he's
been out West and 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 doYn
in minute, so you needn't take your
cloak of. She said she'd box my ears if
I 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 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 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 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. .
"Yonr Uncle Richard is bad, de
praved wretch and ought to have remain
| ed West, where his style is appreciated
He sets a horrid example for little girls
like you"
ooh, think he's nice. He showed
me how to slide down the banisters, and
he's teaching me to whistle when ms
amt oand. That's pretty cloak you've
/ get. Do you buy all your good clothes
with missionary money? Ma says yor
do"
Just then the freckled- faced little girl,
ma came into the parlor and kissed
| the missionary lady on the cheek anG
said she was glad to see her. The little
girls ma cant understand why LADY
who processes to be SO charitable as thu
| missionary agent does should go righ
over to Miss Diamonds s and say such i'll
natured things as she did, and she thinks
the missionary is double-faced ole
gossip Boston Globe,