Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1859 — A NOBLE LITTLE GIRL. [ARTICLE]

A NOBLE LITTLE GIRL.

1 he Warrentown (Penn.) “Flag” contains an account of the )l< all). OU last Thursday- week, of a little girl of eight or nine years <>l ;ig.'. d . lighter of Ml- Francis Gough, living a few miles lr<mi liayimukit In ih<- ab.-< n< cos ail oldei than herself hi r elolhmg took tire. She lirsl tried to suppress the Hames tierself, then asked her little sister of four years to throw water on '"'B 1,,,t 1,11 iIT !'• one ran, instead, to call the neighbors.' When they came th< y found her lym-r <> lJt in the yard, and in reply to Ihe qm -iion a hat she was doing there, she said she “thought if -he (.-maim'd m tbe bouse, ihm the house would eat.-h fire and burn the baby up too.” What a no.de. sensible, remade for. <me >•'■<> y< img. She r< faitied all he; fa 'ultie-< to ih“ la-t, con ' ' 1 ''l I ‘ l 1 *' • an<l harc her - u f ring- witfi a ol fortitude D uly 1 emai k.'ible lor one ( >‘ her age. The interesting little < iC'THi''' >les. rvrd a hetl. r fate. Iler na ne should be classed I wilH that of “the boy on the burning deck.”