News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-04-05
The Wicked Little Girl.

''NIa's upstairs changing her dress,
said the freckle-faced little girl, tyins
her dolls bonnet-strings and casting he
eye about for tidy large enough t.
serve as a shawl for that dOuble-jOinteC
young person.
, ooh, your mother needn't dress III
for me" replied the female agent of the
, missionary society, taking a self-satisfeG
view of herself in the mirror "Run III
and tell her to come down just as she is
in her everyday clothes, and not to
stand on ceremony.
"Oh but she hasn't got on her every
day Clothes Ma was all dressed up III
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 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 books to send 'em. Say,
do the nigger ladies use hymn-booz
! leaves to do their hair up on and make it
frizzy? Ma says she guesses that's all
the good the books do 'em, if they ever
get any books. I wish my doll was a
! heathen."
"Why, you wicked little girl what do
you want of a heather doll? ?" inquired
the missionary lady, taking a mental in
ventory of the new things i'll 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 l want a doll with
| truly hair and eyes that roll up like
| Deacon Sliderback's when he says amen.
I 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 Tn holy terror
and he hopes I'll be an angel pretty
soon. Mall be down in a 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 religion. 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 a heather hungry
enough to eat you, less twas a blind
one, an 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 laugh
ing sometimes.
"Your Uncle Richard is a bad, de-
praved wretch, and ought to have re-
manned 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 bannisters and
he's teaching me to whistle, when ma
amt round. That's a pretty cloak you've
got, amt it? Do you buy all your good
clothes with missionary money? Ma
says you do.
Just then the little freckled-faced
girls ma came into the parlOr and kissed
the missionary lady ON the check and
said she was delighted to see her, and
they proceeded to have a real sOclable
chat. The little girls ma can't under
stand why person who processes to be
so charitable as the missionary agent
does should go right over to Miss Dim
mOnd's and say such iIl-natured things
as she did, and she thinks the missionary
is a double-faced gossip.