The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-06-12
THE FREcKLE-FAcED GIRL.
How She Entertained Visitor While
Her Ma Was Dressing.

How She Entertained Visitor While
Her Ma Was Dressing.
MAS upstairs changing her Dress"
said the freckle-faced little girl tying
her dolls bonnet strings and casting
her eye about for a tidy large enough
to serve as q shawl fo- that double
jointed young person.
ssOh. your mother needn't dress up
for me, " replied the female agent of
the missionary society, taking self
satisfied view of herself in the mirror.
Run up and tell her to come down
just as she is, in her every 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 Dimmond to-day. Miss
Dimmond always comes over here to
show off her nice things, and ma
doesn't mean to get left. When ma
saw you coming she said the Dickens!'
| and guess she was mad bout some
thing. Ma said if 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 more 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. l wish my doll
was heather"
''Why, you wicked little girl, what
do you want of heather doll?' in
quired the missionary lady, making
mental inventory of the new things in
the parlor to get material for a hOmily
on worldly extravaganza.
so 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 I want doll
with truly hair and eyes that roll up
like Deacon Sliderback's when he says
amen on Sunday. I amt a 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 / 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 new
muff worse than the queen of the can
non ball islands needs religion. Uncle
Dick says you oughter go the islands,
cause you'd be safer there, and the
natives'd be sorry they were such sim
ners anybody would send you to 'em.
He says he never seen heather hum
CRY enough to eat you, les twas
blind one, an you'd set blind pagan's
teeth on edge so he'd never banker
after any more missionary. Uncle
Dicks awful funny, and makes pa and
ma die laughing sometimes"
your Uncle Richard is bad, de-
PRAYED wretch, and ought to have re-
NAMED out west, where his style is ap-
preciated. He sets horrible example
for little girls like you.''
''Oh, think he's NICE He showed
me how to slide down the bannisters,
and he's teaching me to whistle when
ma amt round. 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-faced 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 real So
cable chat. The little girls ma can't
understand why a person who processes
To he 81 charita h1a nc tho ,picciopor,
agent does should 60 right over to
Mrs Diamonds and say such lima
tured things as she did, and she thinks.
the missionary is a double-faced Cos.
sip.-BOston Globe.