Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1883-03-22
A FRECKLED.FACED GIRL.
How She entertained Visitor While
her Ma was Dressing.

MAS up stairs changing her Dress said
the freckled, faced little girl, tying her dolls
bonnet strings and casting her eye about
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 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"
20, but she hasn't got on her every day
clothes. Ma was all dressed up in her new
brown silk, cause she expected Miss Dimond
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 and guess
she's mad about something. Ma said if you
saw her new dress she'd have to hear all
about the heathens, who don't have silk, aud
you'd ask her for more money to buy hymn
books to send to 'em. Say, do the nigger
ladies use hymn book leaves to do their hair
up on and make it frizzy? Ma says she
guesses that's all the good the books does '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 mis-
sionary lady, taking mental inventory of
the new things in the parlor to get material
for 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 her
hair to friz, and 1 want a doll with truly
hair, and eyes that roll mp like Deacon Slid
erback's when he says amen on Sunday. l
amt 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 l am holy terror and he hopes I'll
be an angel pretty soon. Mall be down in q
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 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 muff worse than the
queen of the Cannon Ball islands needed re-
ligion. Uncle Dick says you oughter go to-
the islands, cause you'd be safe there, and
the natifsd be sorry they was such sinners
anybody would send you to em. He says
he never seen heather 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
Dick is awful funny, aud makes pa and ma
die laughing sometimes"
"Your Uncle Richard is bad aepraved
wretch, and ought to have remained 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 banisters, and he's
teaching me to whistle, when ma amt
around. That's pretty cloak you've got
on, amt it? Do you buy all your clothes
with missionary money? Ma says you do"
Just then the freckled-taced little girls
ma came into the parlor and kissed the mis-
sionary lady on the cheek and said she was
delighted to see her, and they proceeded to
have real social chat. The little girls ma can't
understand why person who processes to
be so charitable as the missionary agent does
should 60 right over to Miss Dimond's and
say such ill-natured things as she did, and
she thinks the missionary double faced
gossip