The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-11-19
The Little Girl Found in Rose Street
From the NelU York Sun.

from Tue NStO I OTk Gun,
One day, as crossed Rose street. little girl
about 10 years old was engaged in q Tough-and-
tumble fight with boy two or three years
older. While she was doing nobly, it wasn't a
fair fight, and interfered to protect her;
What is it to you?" she hotly demanded, as
she turned on me with flashing eyes.
But you are a girl, replied.
But kin lick him if he'll fight fair!'
drove him OFF and sat down on a doorst ep
with her.
Girls shouldn't fght,"I said, as the ragged
and unkempt child at my side grew cooler.
Motif they are picked on!'
''No"
''Then they'd call me coward"
But suppose they did? You come of a cow
ardly sex. Women are not Drawers and fight
ers. They are tender and gentle. and given to
soft words and peaceful ways. Where do you
live?''
Down piece and up stairs"
Father and mother livingT'
mo; but dad and man is Dad Is over to the
island; man washes and SCRUBS
And what do you dor"
Mind the rooms mostly"
Ever go to SCHOOL, -,
Cant you read:"'
ever been out in the country!'-
''Nawl Where is it, and what is it like?'
And so described something of farm life to
her telling her of the fields of grain, the green
medows, the barns and orchards and farm
yards. Her eyes opened wider and wider as /
went on, but toward the end she grew suspi.
ciouS, and said:
Say, what sort of cove do you take me
fur?"
'But this is all true-upon my word it is''
Don't believe it, If it was, mann would have
let on. Say What dive want, anyhow
II want to talk with you little longer. Ever
go down to the battery
''NaWi"
.'orto Central park"
"Ever see a COW or an OK"
GIVE heard of 'em, ! guess"
"You have heard of Little Red Riding Hood,
haven't you?"
Cant remember"
Never heard of Old Mother Hubbard, who
went to the cupboard to get her poor dog a
bone?"
'Naw!"
''How about the house that Jack builts"
What Jack? Was it a house in Rose
street?'
' YEP S1S' ''-' WOO AZ" '-''' 0'''''
'What is it?'
81 Dunno"
'Where is heaven?"
Somewhere guess"
Didn't any one ever tell you that YOU
must be good in order to go to heaven when you
died?'
Nav. Nam says I must be good or she'll
did you ever pray?'
"Noap."
did you ever hear the Lord Prayer?'
"Noap. Did youf'
repeated it for her, and when was through
she said:
Say! III learn that some day if you'll try
mem
Was it queer that met her again and again
at the same spot, and that she was always on
the lookout for me, and that after the first
meeting she began to grow interested? She
also grew ashamed Of her garments, and
noticed that she had tried to patch and mend
At the third or fourth meeting she had clean
face and her hair had been combed. I think
the neighbors looked upon it as a great mys-
terry, but il they quizzed the child she did not
let me know il. We used TO talk of the country
other cities and people, the mountains and
plains, the 100 0 things she had never heard of
but was hungry TO be informed of. | watched
her closely, and | could see that knowledge
frightened her eyes and made her face more
gentle. Little by little she dropped off her
slang, and little by little her manner changed to
the coyness Of her sex.
! reached the spot one afternoon to discover
that she had failed me for the first time. In
her place was broad-shouldered. red-faced
woman, who walked up to me and demanded:
Are you the rapscullion who has done ell
this?"
''All of what, ma'am!'
Been preaching to my Nanny until she got
50 soft and good for nothing that a fall down
stairs has put her in her cof11nl'
Nanny deadl"
And buried, sir, and she went on about the
Lords prayer and heaven and green fields until
she almost made me crazy. o, you villain. to
come about destroying poor mothers happi-
ness in that way. Begone, or I'll have Lne
police after ye.'