North Park union., 1900-11-16
Marjorie Fleming.
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ever heard OF read. When you are
done reading this story, ] nov you
will think 80 too.
Her nsme mas Marjorie Fleming.
she vas born Jan. lb, 1903, and died
Dec. 10, lsll-being only : little
less than eight ysars old: Sir Walter
Scott the author Of Waverly Novels,
Ivanhoe, Lay Of the Last Minstrel,
Marmion, Lady of the Lake, etc., VA.
one of Marjorie's most intimate
friends and loved her like father
might love his own child. Scott
called her "Maidie". Maidie was
five years old when one day, while
playing With her sister Isabella, she
fell and would have been swept into
. mill race, but her sister caught her
and pulled her back, tearing her
dress. An old servant OF the family
with them was going to whip Isabel,
Ia for tearing the dress when Mar
jorie spoke up and said: rPay (whip)
Maidjie as much as you like and I'll
not say one word, hut touch Isy and
I'll roar like bull"
Here is an extract from the first
letter she ever wrote, being then not
five years old, to her sister, unchanged
in construction and spelling.
My Dear Iss:-
1now sit down
to answer all your kind beloved let
ters which you was 80 good as to
write to me. This is the first time
/ ever wrote a letter in my life. There
are great many girls in the Square
and they just cry like pig when we
are under the painful necessity Of
! ! putting it to Death. Miss Potune =
; lady of my acquaintance praises me
!! dreadfully. l repeated something
out of Dean Swift and che said was
fit for the stage and you may think l
was primmed up with majestick
pride"
Here is an extract from another
letter. She is now in school.
II confess ] have been very more
, like little young divil than GREAT
ure for when Isabella went up stairs
to teach me religion and my multi
plication and to be good and all my
other lessons 1 stamped with my foot
and threw my new hat which she had
made on the ground and was sulky
and dreadfully passionate but she
never whipped me but said Mauory go
into another room and think what q
great crime you are committing let
ting your temper git the better of
you. But l went SO sulkily that the
Devil got the better of me-"
And again.
yesterday behave extremely i'll
in Gods most holy church for l
would never never attend myself nor
let Isabella attend which was q great
crime for she often, often tells me
that when to or three are geathered
together God is in the midst of them
and 1t was the very same Divil that
tempted Job that tempted me l am
sure; but he resisted Satan though he
had boils and many many other mis-
fortunes which l have escaped 80
l am now going to tell you the
horrible and wretched plaege (plague)
that my multiplication gives me.
You cant conceive it the most Devil
ish thing is 8 times 8 and Z times Z
it is what nature itself cant endure"
In another letter.
Il walked to that delightful place
Crakyhall with delightful young
man beloved by all his friends espec-
tally by me his loveress, but must
not talk any more about him, for lisa
said it was not proper for me to
speak Of a gentalmen but I will new
or forget him. -
To-day l pronounced word which
should never come out of a lady's lips
It was that called John a Impudent
Bitch. l will tell you what I think
made me in 30 bad humor is l got
one or two of that bad bad sina (sen-
nay tea today. A better excuse for
bad humor and bad language than
most *~* As this is Sunday
will mediate upon Senciable
and Religious subjects. First I
should be very thankful L am not
oeggar. *#+ I am going
tomorrow to E. delightful place Brae-
head by name, belonging to Mrs. Car
.aford, where there is ducks, cocks