Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1883-03-10
THE WICKED LITTLE GuRr
A Book Agents opinion.

From the Boston Globe,
MAS up stairs changing her dress, " said the
freckle-faced little girl, tying her dolls bonnet
| strings and casting her eye about for tidy
large enough to serve as shawl for that dou-
| blejointed young person.
"Oh, your mother needn't dress up for me, ~
replied the female agent Of the missionary sooi-
ETY., taking self-satisf1ed view of herself in the
| mirror. "Run up and tell her to come down
just as she is in her every-da clothes, and not
| to stand on ceremony"
"Oh, but she hasn't got on her everyday
clothes. Ma was all dressed up in her new
brown silk cause she expected Miss Dimmond
| to-day. Miss Dimmond 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 was mad about
something. Ma said if you saw her new dress
| shed have to hear all about the poor heather,
who don't have silk, and you'd ask her for
money to buy hymn books to send en- Say,
| do the niger ladies use hymn-bOok leaves to do
| their hair up on and make 1t frizzy7 Ma says
she guesses that's all the good the books do 'em,
they ever get any books. l wish my doll was
a heathen."
'Why, you wicked little girl; what do you
| want of heather doll?" inquired the mission
airy 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 hair to friz; and
want adolf with truly hair and eyes that roll up
like Deacon Sliderbacks when he says amen on
Sunday. 1 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 I'm holy terror and he hopes
IN 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 asked you to. Mas putting
on that old Dire So she had last wear,
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 go to the islands, cause
you'd be safe there and the natifs'd be sorry
they was such sinners anybody would send you
to EN-. He says he never seen q heather
hungry enough to eat you, less twas blind
one, an you'd set a blind pagan's teeth on edge
SO he'd never banker after any more missionary.
Uncle Dicks awful funny, and makes pa and
ma die laughing sometimes" 1890.
Your Uncle Richard is q bad, depraved
wretch, and ought to have remained out we at,
where his style is appreciated. He sets hor-
rid example for little girls like you"
"Oh, think he's Eice. 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 proceeded to have a real
sociable chat. The little girls ma can't under
stand why person who processes to be 30
Charitable as the missionary agent does should
go right over to Miss Dimond's and say such ILL
natured things as she did and she thinks the
missionary Is dOuble-faced gossip.