The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1890-10-30
A EUROPEAN TRIP.
A Little City Girl Tells a Little Country hog
About Its Pleasures.
= Little city giri--Do you call this big

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About Its Pleasures.
Little city giri--Do you call this big
pond
Little country boy-Yes; don't your?
Little girl-No; but I've been across
the ocean, you know.
Little boy-Yes, know; it's blue Oh
the map
Little girl--It's lots Of fun.
Little boy-How?
Little girl-Well. you 60 on big ship
and then you get awfully sick.
Little boy-That's no fun.
Little girl-Yes; but ] got better and
mamma kept sick.
Little boy-That's not so bad.
Little girl-And then papa and l
stayed down in the smoking room, and
watched him play with the chips.
Little boy-Oh, pooh! Men don't play
with chips.
Little girl-Yes, they do on board
ships; red and blue and white chips;
and when papa had lots Of them he was
as good as any thing, and he stroke
my hair and call me his mascot
Little boy-What's that?
Little girl don't quite know; but it
was something nice. Then when he
hadn't so many he'd say: run away,
don't bother"
Little boy-Well!
Little girl-Well, and then we got to
London. and papa and didn't like it a
bit; but sister Nell said the fog was
good for her complexion and brother
Tom got pair of trousers like a horse
blanket.
Little boy-Oh, my!
Little girl-Yes; and mamma said
they were very English" and Nell
said they were lawfully swell"
Little boy-And what did your papa
say?
Little girl-oh, he said they were
loud enough to be heard block away.
Little boy-How funny!
Little girl-Yes, rather; but It wasn't
funny the nightpapa and mamma had
such dreadful row.
Little boy-Whewl
Little girl-You- see. mamma wanted
papa to go to place called the lega-
ton, and get somebody there to have
Nell presents. don't know what
that means, but it was something Nell
wanted awfully.
Little boy-And wouldn't he do it?
Little girl-No; he said he'd be dog
goned If he would; and mamma cried
and papa put his hands in his pockets
and walked up and down, and said he
was a free-born American citizen, and
no man, or woman either, was his bet
ter, and he didn't propose to truckle to
royalty, or have his family, either; and
he said he was ashamed of=mamma and
Nell, who were perfect pair OF toads;
only he didn't want 20 be rude, you
know, and he said "toadies.'
little boy@zf'd like kq been there
Little girl-Yes; and then papa went
down and quarreled with the hotol man,
and we came away.
Little boy-What was that for?
Little girl--0h, you always. have to
quarrel with the hotel man in Europe,
to save your teeth, you know.
Little boy-What?
Little girl-Yes; papa said If you
didn't fight them at every turn they'd
cheat you out of your cye-teeth. know
they didn't get his, though, for he never
forgot
Little boy--And was that all?
Little sgirl-Oh, my, mol We went to
lots more places where there were pct-
ures and churches, and mammmantl Nell
went to see every thing, and said it was
all very dull and fatiguing but i. was
the thing. You have to do that in
Europe.
Little boy-What?
Little girl severely thing, al
ways. And by and by we came home,
and papa played with the chips some
more, and mamma and Nell talked all
the time about getting things through.
Little boy-What was that?
Little girl-Well l don't know, but /
think it meant sewing lace inside the
lining of your sealskin sacque aud try
ing on kid gloves.
Little boy--Oh!
Little girl-Yes; and just BEFORE we
got to New York all the gentlemen
came on deck and watched for the pilot
boat and some Of them said ''hurrahl'
when they saw it. but papa didn't; he
said: Just my confounded luck" and
looked awful cross
Little boy-Why?
Little girl-oh, l don't know And
then we landed, and mammc let
me wear a lot of pretty rings and
bracelets to come off the ship, and papa
told her and sister Nell that he hoped
they hadn't been up to any women's
tricks, about smuggling; and then he got
awful red in the face when a. man asked
him If he generally wore his diamond
studs screwed into his boot tops.
Little boy-What else?
Little girl=Nothipg much; only next
day sister Nell said she was glad she'd
been abroad, because she'd got such a
stock of small talk laid in; and papa
said he'd paid large price for it; and
mamma said she'd eeonemize and send
me up here to Aunt Judith, where school
ing is cheap, and l wouldn't need any
new clothes. Puck.