The Penn's Grove record., 1889-04-06
A Composition By q Nsushtf Ihttie
Girl

Girl.
1 am only a little girl, but 1 think
have as much right 10 say what | want
TO about things as a boy. / hate boys,
they'r so mean; they always grab all
the Strawberries at the dinner table, and
never tell us when they are going to
have any fun. Only l like Gus Rogers.
The other day Gus told me he was go
ing to let off some fireworks, and he let
Bessie Nettle and me 20 and look at
them. All Of us live in q hotel and his
mothers room has q window with a
balcony. His mother was gone out to
buy some creme de Us 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 h~ousekeeper. just
when she 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 soap and
matches, and when she came back be
watched her, and she got real mad, u
she scolded Della THAT Is the chamber
maid), and said she knowned she did 1t,
and / was real glad, because when l
was turning somersets on my mothers
bed the other day Della slapped me, and
said she wasn't going to make b bed
two times TO please me; then Bessie
and me sticked the matches in the soap
like ~ten-pins, and Gus fired them off,
and they blazed like anything, and they
made an awful smell, and Gus went and
Aunae "a 1tttla noa on ana htQ nlnthpr
would think It wa that.
We got our dinner with the nurses.
cause the man that keeps the hotel
charges full price for the children If
they sit at the table in the big dining
room. Once my mother lot me 60 down
with her, and | talked a 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 1 was real glad, and
l told Leila so, and she said If l went
and said things like that l couldn't go
to Heaven. Much she knows about 1t;
and l wouldn't want to 60 If dirty
things like she Is went there. Yester-
day Mary, or nurse, told Bessie Net
ties nurse that she heard larry Fin
negan was going to marry her. larry
is one of the waters, and he saves
candies for me from the big dining
ROOM; and Bessie Nettle went into her
mothers room, and her little brother
said she whipped him, and Bessie said,
20, Lordl what a liel" and you should
have heard her mother talk to her, and
went and shut her up in a dark room
where she kept her trunks, and didn't
let her have nothing but bread and
water; and Gus Rogers went and yelled
through the key-hole, and said, bessie
the deyil is coming to catch you," and
Bessie screamed and almost had a fit,
and her mother told Mrs. Rogers, and
got Gus licked, and Gus said he was
going to set the house on fire some day
and burn her out,
One day 1 went into the parlor and
creeped under the sofa, and there wasn't
nobody there. They don't let dogs nor
children 60 into the parlor, and l think
it's real mean; and / had to creepunder
the SOFA, so nobody could see me, and
MI. Boyce came in, and Miss jackson;
she said one day that children was a
worse nuisance than dogs. MI. Boyce
and Miss Jackson came in and sitted
down IN the sofa; and he said. 20,
Louisa, I do love you so MUCH" and
then he kissed her, for heard it smack.
And then she said, 20, Thomas, l do
wish l could believe you; don't you
never kiss anybody else?" And he said,
mo, dearest" and l yelled out, 80,
what a big story!.' for l saw him kiss
Bessie Nettle's nurse in the hall one
night, when the gas was turned down,
Didn't he jump up; you betl and lie
pulled me out and tore my frock, aud
he said, 80, you wicked child, where
do you expect to 60 for telling such
s.ories?" and l told him, "you shut up,
l amt going anywhere with you"
wish that man would die, like the Other
one, so 1 do; 1 don't care whether he
goes to heaven or not.
Gus Rogers motherhad a lunch party
IN her parlor. and they had champagne,
and they eve gave him any; and wher
his mother wasn't looking, he found q
bottle half full on the sideboard, and
he stealed 1t and took it in our nursery.
and Mary wasn't there, and Gus and
me urllkeu IL OUT VI bno glass NAL
brushes her teeth in, and it was rea
nice; and we looked in Mary's wardrObt
and found her frock she goes to churcl
in, and Gus put 1t on, and Mary's bon
nett too; and we went down in the hall,
and we tumbled down and tored Mary'i
frock, and made my nose bleed; and Gus
said, "Oh, there's an earthquakeP'
eau Q 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 housekeepel
picked me up and looked me to my
mothers room. and my mother said,
"Oh, myl whatever have your beer
doingY" and ! said, 20, Lord! l drink
ed champagne out Of Gus Rogers
mothers bottle in the glass that Mary
brushes her teeth in" And the house
keeper says, sob, my goodness gracious
that child's IS tight as bricks;' and ]
said, "You bet; bully for syou;" and
and then / ia awful sick, and I've
forgot what else.