The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1883-03-30
WHOLE NO. 716.
A FREcKLED-FACED GIRL.


boston Globe.
"Ma's up stairs changing her Dress" said
the freckled-faced little girl, tying her doll's
bonnet strings and casting her eye about for
. tidy large enough to serve as a shawl for
that double-jointed young person.
80, your mother needn't dress up for me, -
replied the female agent of the missionary
society, taking q 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 ceremany."
"Oh, but she hasn't got on her everyday
clothes. Ma was all dressed up In her new
brown silk cause she expected Miss Dina
mond to-day. Miss Dimmoni always comes
over here TO show OF her nice things, and ma
don't mean to get left. When ma saw you
coming she said, The Dickens = and guess
she was mad about something. Ma said If
you saw her new dress she'd have to hear all
about the poor hesthen who don't have silk,
and you'd ask her for money to buy hymn
books to send 'em. Say, do the niger ladies
use hymn book leaves to do their hair up on
and make It frizzy? Ma says she guesses
that's oil the good the books do 'em, II they
ever get any books. wish my doll vas .
heathen."
"Why you wicked little girl, what do you
want Of hesthen doll?" inquired the mis-
sionary lady, taking . mental inventory of
the new things in the psrlor 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 hairto
frizz, and I want dell with July hair and
eyes that roll up like deacon Sliderback's
when he says amen on Sunday. l amt 3
wicked girl either, cause Uncle Dick--yeu
know Uncle Dick, he's been out West aud
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 you needn't take your cloak of.
She said she'd box my ears II asked you to.
Mas putting on that old dress she had last
year, cause she said she didn't want you 10
think she was able to give much this time,
and she needed muff worse than the queen of
the cannon ball islands needed religion.
Uncle Dick says you oughter to 60 to the
islands, cause you'd be safe there and the
natifs'd be sorry they was such sinners any
body would send you TO 'em. He ssys be
never seen \ heathen hungry enough to eat
you, less twas blind one, and you'd set
blind pagan's teeth on edge so he'd never
banker after any moro missionary. Uncle
Dicks awful funny, and makes pa and ma
die laughing sometimes"
"Your Uncle Richard is q bad, deprayed
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. lie showed me
how to slide down the bannisters. aud he s
teaching me to whistle when ma ain't round.
That's q pretty cloak you've got, sin't Il !?
Do you buy sll your good clothes with mis-.
sionary money! Ma says you do.
Just then the freckled- faced little girls u,s
came into the parlor and kissed the rnissiop-
ary lady on the cheek, and they proceeded to
have = real ,sociable chat. The little girls
ma can't understand why person who pro-
fesses to be so charitable as the missionary
agent does, should 60 right over. to, Miss
Diamonds and say such Ill natured things
as she did, and she thinks the missionary 10
q double. faced gossip.