Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1889-04-10
i Composition by a Naugh.f Little


/ am only little giri, but think |
have as much right 10 say what want
10 about things as a boy L hate boys,
they're so mean; they always grab all
the straw berries at the dinner table, and
never tell US when they are going tC
have any fun. Only like Gus Rogers.
The other day Gus told me he was GO
ing To let of some fireworks, and he let
Bessie Neitle and me go and look at
them. All of Us live I'm a hotel ard his
mothers room las a window with q
balcony. His mother was gone out 10
buy some creme de las TO put on her
face, and he'd went and got eleven
boxes of lucifer matches, and ever so
many pieces OF CASTLE soap; he stealed
them from the housekeeper. Just
when Size went TO put them in her
closet, Gus went and tod her Mrs.
Nettle wanted her a minute, and while
She was gone he grabbed the soup and
matches, and when she came back he
watched h,T. and she got real mad, and
she scolded Della THAT is the chamber
maidl, and said She knownsd she did it,
aud / WAS real glad. because when /
WAS turning sOmcTsets on my mothers
bed the other day Della slapped me, and
said sic wasn't going 10 make the bed
two times To please me; then Bessie
and me sticked the matches i'll the soap
like ten-pIus, and Gus fired them off,
and they blaze like anything, and they
made au awful smell. and Gus went and
turned Il little gas on SOS his mother
would think It WAS that.
We got our dinner with the nurses,
cause the man that keeps the hotel
charges full lrice foT the Children If
they sit at the table in the big dining
room. Once my mother let me go down
with her. and | talked heap at the
table, and a gentleman that sat next to
us said. Little girls should be seen
and not heard" The mean old thing
died last week, and L was real glad, and
tod Leila so, and she said If 1 went
and said Things like that L couldn't go
to Heaven. Much she knows about it;
and l wouldn't want 10 go If dirty
things like she is went there Eestcr-
day Mary, orT nurse, told Bessie Net
ties nurse thai she heard Tarry Fin
negan was going To marry her. Tarry
IS one IF tie walters, and lie saves
candies for me from the big dining
room; and Eessie Nettle went into her
mothers room, and her little brother
said she whipped him. and Bessie said,
20, Lordi what Il liei'' and you should
have heard hCr mother talk 10 her, AMI
Went and shut Eer up III 4 dark room
where she kept her trunks, and didn't
let her have nothing but bread and
wafer; and Gus Rogers went and yelled
through the key-hole, and said, Bessie
the deyil is cOmi g 10 catch you," and
Bessie screamed and almost had Il lit,
and her mother told Mrs. Rogers, and
got Gus licked, aud Gus said he Was
going To set the Eouse on fire some day
and bum her out,
One day l went into tine plrlor and
creeped under the sofa, and there wasn't
nobody there. They don't let dogs nor
children 20 into the parlOr, and l think
it's real mean; ana l had TO creep under
the So a, 80 nobody could see me. and
Mr.. Boyce came in, and Miss jackson;
she said one Gay that children was u
worse nuisance than dogs. Mr.. Boyce
and Miss Jackson came in and sitted
down on the sofa; and lie said, 80.
Louisa, do love YOU so much," and
then he kis ed her, for heard it smack.
And then she said, %, Thomas, | do
wish l could believe you; don't you
never kiss anybody else?" And lie said,
NO, Dearest" and L yelled out, so,
what a big stoTy!.' for L saw him kiss
Bessie Nettle's nurse in the hall one
night, when the gas was turned down.
DIDN'T lie jump up; you bet! and lie
pulled me out and tore my frock, aud
he said, 80, you wicked child, where
do you expect TO go for telling such
$ oIies?" auI told Lin, You shut up,
amt going anywhere with you" /
wish that man would die, like the other
one, 50 | do; don't care whether lac
goes to heaven or not
Gus Rogers mother had lunch party
IN her parlor. and they had champagne,
and they never gave him any; and when
his mother wasn't looking, he found a
bottle half full on the sideboard, and
he stealed it and took it in our nursery;
and Mary wasn't there, and Gus and
me drinked it out of the glass Mary
brushes her teeth in, and it was real
uice; and we looked in Mary's wardrobe
and found her fro X she goes to church
in, and Gus put lt on, and Mary's bon
ne!t too; and we went down i'll the hall,
and we tumbled down and tored Mary's
frock, and made my nose bleed; and Gus
said, "Oh, there's an earthquakel''
eau we couldn't stand up; and you
should see how the house DID go up and
down-awful; and Gus and me laid
down on the carpet, and the housekeeper
picked me up and looked me to my
mothers room, and my mother said,
'Oh, my! whatever have your been
doing?" and l said, 80, Lord! l drink
ed champagne out of Gus Rogers
mothers bottle in the glass that Mary
brushes her teeth in And the house
keeper saws, '-Oh. my goodness gracious!
hat .ait lsFh /
said, GU bet; bully Tor :youi" and
and then L was awful sick, and l've
forgot what else.