The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1883-06-21
A FRECKLED.FACED GIRL.
How Sho Entertaine1 Visitor Whil'
Her Ma was Dressing.

How sho Entertained 1 q Visitor Whils
| Her Ma was Dressing.
"Nia'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 a shawl for the double
jointed young person.
ooh, your mother needn't dress up
for me-" replied the female agent of
the missionary society, taking 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 dress, cause she
expected Miss Dimmond to-day. Miss
Dimmond always comes over here to
show off her nice things, and ma does
not mean to get left. When ma saw
you coming she said, "the dickens"
and guess she was mad about some
thing. 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
heather ladies use hygn-book leaves to
do their hair up on AMI make it frizzyp
Ma says she guesses that's all the good
the books do them, if they get any
books. 1 wish my doll was a
heather" ...
"Why, you wicked little girl, what
do you want of heather doll?" in
quired the missionary.
$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.
1 amt wicked girl, either, cause
Uncle Dick-you know Uncle Dick; he
has been out West and swears awful
and smokes in the house-he says I'm
a great terror, and he hopes I'll be an
angel pretty soon. Mall be down in
minute, so you needn't take your
cloak off. She said she'd box my ears
if 1 asked you to. Mas putting on
that old dress she had last year, cause
she didn't want you to think she was
able to give much this time, and she
needed muff worse than the queen Of
the cannon ball island needed religion.
Uncle Dick says you oughter 60 to the
islands, cause you'd be safe there, and
the natives'd be sorry they were such
sinners anybody would send you to
'em. He says he never see heather
hungry enough to eatyou, less twas a
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 pa and ma die
laughing sometimes"
"Your Uncle Richard is bad, de-
PRAYED wretch, and ought to have re-
mained out West where his style is
appreciated. He sets horrid example
for little girls like YOU
"Oh, 1 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 a 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
cheek and said she was delighted to
see her, and they proceeded to have a
real sociable chat. The little girls
ma cannot understand why a person
who processes to be SO charitable
as the missionary agent does, should go
right over to Miss Diamonds and say
such ill-natured things as she did, and
she thinks that the missionary is a
double-faced gossip.