Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1888-08-01
KIND TO THE MissIoNAaY.
Showing Hew sometispss tAs Truth
wtn Out In Unexpected Ways.


MAS up stairs changing her dress" )"
ssid the freckled faced little girl, tying
her dolls bonnet strings and casting
her sye about for tidy large enough
to serve a. q shawl for the double joint.
cd young person.
"Oh. your mother needn't dress up
for me-" replied the female agent Of
The niission.ry society, taking self
satisfied view OF herself IN the mirror.
"Run up and tell her to come down
just the way she is, in her every day
clothes, and not to stand ON ceremony
"Oh, but she hasn't got on her every
day clothes. Ma was all dressed up in
her new brown silk, cause she expect.
ed Miss Dimmond to day. Miss DIM
mond always comes over here to show
off her moe things, and ma don't in.
tend to got left When ma saw you
coming abe said The dickensr snd /
guess she was mad about something
Ma said II you saw her new dress she'd
have to hear al about the poor heathens
who don't have silks, and you'd ask
her for money to buy hymn books to
send 'em. Say, do tho niger ladies
use hyAn books leaves to do their
hair up on and make it frlzzyi Ma
says she guesses that's all the good the
books do 'em, if they ever get any
books. l wish my doll WAS hesthen.r .
"Why, you wicked little girl, what
do you want of a heather dolls" in.
quired the missionary lady, taking
mental inventory of the new things in
the parlor to get material for homlly
lead on worldly extravaganza.
$50 falks would send her lots Of nice
things tn wear and feel sorry to zee
her going about naked. Then she'd
have her hair to friz, and I want doll
with truly hair, and eyes that roll
mp like Deacon Sliderback's when he
says amen on Sunday. ain't wick.
ed 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 III bs an angel pretty soon.
Mall be down in moment, so you
needn't take your cloak off. She said
she'd box my ears if l 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, aud she needed new
muff worse than the Queen Of the Can.
non Ball islands needed religion. Tn.
Gle Dick says you ought to go to the
islands, cause you'd be safer there. and
the MATHIS d be sorry they were sinners
anybody would send you 10 them. He
xaya he never seen a heather hungry
enough to eat you less twas q blind
one, and you'd set a blind 'pagans
teeth on edge 40 he'd never banker
after any more missionary. Uncle
Dicks awful funny, and makes pa and
ma die laughing sometimes.
"Your Uncle Richard il a bad, de.
PRAYED wretch, and ought to have re.
mained out West where his style is ap-
preciated. He sets a horrid example
for little girl like you.
"Oh, ! think he's nice. He showed
nae how to slide down the tanister, and
he's teaching to whistle when ma
amt around. 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 freckled 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 soeiable chat. The little girls ma
can't understand why person profess.
ing 70 be. 80 charitable as the agents
do should go right over to Miss Dim.
monds and say such ill.natured things
~ abe did, and she thinks the mission.
ary is double.faced gossip.-B Boston
Globe.