Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-03-02
THE FRECKLED-FACED GIRL.

How She Entertained q Visitor While Her
MA Was Dressing.
Boston Globe.
"Ma's up stairs changing her Dress"
said the freckled faced 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 mis-
sionary society, taking a sell. 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 cere-
mony."
go, but she hasn't got on her everyday
clothes. Ma was all dressed up in her
new brown silk dress, cause she expected
Miss DimmODd to day. Miss Dimmond
always comes over here to show off her
nice things, and ma doesn't mean to get
left. When ma saw you coming she said,
the dickens = and l 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
nigger ladies use hymnbook leaves 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.
wish my doll was heathen."
"Why, you wicked little girl, what do
you want of heather doll ?" inquired the
missionary lady, making mental inven-
tory of the new things in the parlor to get
material for a homily or worldly extrava-
gence
ESQ 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 frlzz, and want doll with truly hair
and eyes that roll up like Deacon Slider
bach's when he says amen on Sunday. l
ant 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 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'd box my ears if asked you to. Mas
putting on that old dress that 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 20 to the islands, cause you'd be
SAFE tn6Tc, anu Tue uaCuS u Oo sorry Iu0y
was such sinners anybody would send you
to 'em. He says he never seen a heather
hungry enough to eat you, less twas a
blind one, an you'd set blind pagan's
teeth on edge 50 he'd never banker after
any more missionary. Uncle Dicks awful
funny and makes pa and ma die laughing
sometimes"
"YOur Uncle Richard is bad, de-
praved wretch, and ought to have re-
mained out West, where his style is ap-,
prcciated. He sets horrid example for'
little girls like you."
"Oh, l 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 pro-
ceeded to have real sociable chat. The
little girls ma can't understand why a
person who processes to be so charitable
@ the missionary agent does should go
right over to Miss Diamonds and say
such ill natured things as she did, and she
thinks the missionary is double. faced
gossip.