The Portland daily press., 1883-03-09
The wicked Little Girl.
Boston Globe.]


''Mas up stairs changing her Dress" said
the freckle-eaced little girl, tying her dolls
bonnet strings and casting her eye about for
tidy large enough to serve as shawl for
that double ieinted young person.
sob, your ma needn't dress up for me-
replied the female agent of the missionary
society, taking a self-satisfed view Of her
self in the mirror.
"Run up and tell her to come down just
as she is in her every day clothes, and not
to stand on ceremony"
ooh, but she hasn't got on her everyday
clothes. Ma was all dressed up in her new
brown silk cause she expected Miss Dim
mond 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 Dickensp aud I
guess she was mad about something. . 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 money to
buy hymn-boobs TO send em. Say, do the
niger ladi, s use hymn book leaves to do
buelI up On oHo AudAO ~ AAAHNy' 4Ad
says she guesses that's all the good the books
do 'em, if they ever get any books. wish my
doll was heathen."
"Why, you wicked little girl; what do you
want of a 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 10 wear and feel sorry to have her
going about naked Then she'd have hair
to friz; and l want doll with truly hair and
eyes that roll up like Deacon Sliderbaek's
when he says amen on Sunday. l amt a
wicked girl either, cause Uucle Dck-you
know Uncle Dick, he's been out 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 doG n in a
minute, so YOU needn't take your cloak off.
She said she'd box my ears If asked you to.
Mas putting oil 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 muH worse than the
Queen of the Cannon Ball Islands needed re-
ligion. Uncle Dick says you onght to 60 to
the islands, cause you'd be safe there, and
the natifs'd be sorry they was such sinners
anybody would send you to 'em. He says
he never seen heather hangry 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 more missionary.
Uncle Dicks awful funny. and makes pa
and ma die laughing sometimes
"Your Uncle Richard is bad, deprayed
wretch, and ought to have remained out
West, where his style is appreciated. He
sets a horrid example, for little girls like
you"
sob, think he's nice. He showed me how
to slide down the banisters, and he's teach
ing me to whistle when ma amt round
That's pretty cloak you've got, amt it?
Do you buy all your good clothes with mis-
sionary money? Ma says you do"
just then the freckle-faced little girls ma
came into the parlor and kissed the mission
airy lady on the cheek and said she was de-
lighted to see her, and they proceeded to
have real nice sociable chat. The little
girls ma can't understand why person who
processes to be so charitable as the mission
arv agent does should go right over TO Miss
Diamonds and say such ill-natured things
as she did, and she thinks the missionary is
donble-faced gossip.