The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-09-03
THE FREcKLE.FAcED GIRL.
How She Entertained . Visitor While Hef
.'Ma" Was Dressing upstairs.


ma" Was Dressing upstairs.
"Ma's 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 self-satis-
fed view of herself in the mirror. run
up and tell her to come down just as
she is, in her everyday 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 Dimmond to-day. Mis-.
Dimmond always comes over here tt
show off her nice things, and ma doesn'
: mean to get left. When ma saw yoL
coming she said the ::Dickensr and !
guess she was mad about something;
Ma said if you saw her new dress she'd
have to hear all about the poor heathen;
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
to make it frizzy? Ma says she guesses
that's all the good the books do 'em, if
they ever get any books. 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, aud I want doll
with black hair and eyes that roll up
like Deacon Sliderback's when he says
amen on Sunday. I 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 minute, SO you
needn't take your coat off. She said
she'd box my ears If I 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 a new muff
worse than the queen of the Common
ball islands needs religion Uncle
+ Dick says you oughter 60 to
the islands, Il cause you'd be safer
there, and the natives'd be sorry they
were such sinners if anybody would
send you to 'em. He says he never seen
a heather hungry enough to eat you,
les twas 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 ! pretty cloak you've got,
amt it? Do you buy all your good
clothes with missionary money? Ma
says you do"
just then the freckled- face lit l. ;-irl's
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 real sociable chat.
The little girls ma can't understand
why person who processes to be SO
charitable as the missionary lady does
should go right over to Mrs. Diamonds
and say such illnatured things as she
did, and she thinks the missionary is a
| double-faced gossip.-Boston Globe.