The Butler weekly times., 1891-10-07
THE FRECklE-FACED GIRL,
How She Entertained u Visitor While Her
MA" Was Dressing Up-stairs.


Mas upstairs changing her Dress"
said the freckle-faced little girl, tying
her dolls bonnet strings and casting
her eye about for tidy large enough to
serve as shawl for that double pointed
young person.
''Oh, your mother needn't dress up for
me-" replied the female agent of the
missionary society. taking a self-satis-
fed view of herself in the mirror run
up and tell her to come down just as
she is, in her 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 dress, cause she
expected Miss Dimrnond to-day. Mis-.
Dimmond always comes over here te
show off her nice things. and ma doesn+
mean to get left When ma saw yoI
coming she said the Dickens! and l
guess she was mad about something.
Ma said il you saw her new dress she'd
have to hear all about the poor heather,
who don't have silk, and you'd ask her
for money to buy hymn books to send
'em. Say, do the niger ladies use
hymn book leaves to do their hair upon
to make it frizzy? Ma says she guesses
that's all the good the books do 'em. if
they ever get any books I wish my
doll was heathen.'
why. you wicked little girl. what do
you want of a heather doll?" inquired
the missionary lady, making mental In.
ventory of the new things in the parlor
to get material for homily on worldly
extravaganza.
$50 folks would send her lots Of nice
things to wear, and feel sorry to have
her going about naked. Then she'd
have hair to frizz, and 1 want q doll
with black hair and eyes that roll up
like Deacon Sliderback's when he saws
amen Oh Sunday. l amt wicked girl
neither cause Uncle Dick-you know
Uncle Dick, he's been out west and
swears awful and smokes all the house
he says I'm a holy terror and he
hopes I'll be an angel pretty soon.
Mall be down in a minute, SO you
needn't take yonr coat of. 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 and she needed q new mu6
worse than the queen of the cannon
ball islands needs religion. Uncle
Dick says you oughter 60 to
the islands. cause you'd be safer
there, and the natives'd be sorry they
were such sinners II anybody would
send you to 'em. He says he never seen
a heather hungry enough to eat you.
les twas a blind one. an you'd set a
blind pagan's teeth on edge SO he'd
never banker after any more mission.
ary. Uncle Dicks awful funny and
makes pa and ma die laughing some
times.
That's a pretty cloak you've got,
amt 1t? Do you buy all your good
clothes with missionary money? Ma
says you do"
Just then the freckled- face 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 sociable chat
The little girls ma can't understand
why a person who processes to be *
charitable IS the missionary lady doe.
should 60 right over to Mrs. Dimmond'l
and say such ill.natured things as sh<
did, and she thinks the missionary Is &
double-faced gossip.-Boston Globe.