The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-03-02
THE EREcKLED.PAoED GIRL
How She Entertained Visitor While
| Her Ma was Dressing.

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"Ma's up stairs changing her dress,"
slid the freckled faced little girl, tying her
dolls bonnet.arings and casting her eye
about for a tidy large enough to serve as a
shawl for that doble jointed young person.
"Oh, your mother needn't dress up for
me-" replied the female agent oil the mis-
sionary society, taking self.satistied view
OF herself in The mirror. "Run up and
tell htr to come down Just as she is in her
everyday clothes and not stand on cere-
mony.
R"Oh, 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 Dimmond always
comes over here to show Off her nice things
and ma don't mean 10 get left. When ma
saw you coming she said, THE Dickens!
and | guess she was mad about something.
Ma said il you saw her new dress she'd
have 10 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
'ema. Say, do the niger ladies use hymn
book leaves to do their hair up and make
it irizzy? Ma says she gueses that's all the
good The books do 'em, If they ever get
any books. wish my doll was heather"
"Why, you wicked 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 around naked. Then she'd have
hair 10 iriz and | want doll with truly
hair and eyes that roll like Deacon Slider.
backs when he says amen on Sunday. l
amt wicked girl, either, cause Uncle
Dick--you know Uncle Dick, he's been
our West and swears awful and smokes in
the house-he says Pm holy terror and
he hopes I'll be an angel pretty soon.
Mall be down In minute, so sou needn't
take your cloak oil. She said she'd box
my ears II asked You 10. 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 muf worse than the queen
Of the cannon ball islands needed religion.
Uncle Dick says you ought to go 70 the
islands, cause you'd be safe there and the
natiis'd be sorry they were such sinners II
anybody would send you to 'em. He says
he never seen heather hungry enough
10 eat you, less twas blind one, and you
would set blind pagan's teeth on edge so
he'd never banker after any more mission
airy. Uncle Dicks awful funny, and he
makes pa and made laughing sometimes"
"Your Uncle Richard Is bad, deprayed
wretch, and ought to have remained out
West, where his style is,appreciated. He
sets horid example for little girls. like
you" ..a,.
"0h, 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-iaced little girls
ma came into the parlor and kissed the
missionary lady on the cheek and said she
WAS delighted 10 see her and they proceed
ed to have real social chat. The little
girls ma can't understand why person
who processes to be so charitable US the
missionary agent does, should so right
over TO Miss Dimond's and say such Ill
natured things as she did, and she thinks
the missionary Is deuble.face gossip.