By any chance do you happen to know Miss Mary Ann Jackson? No? Yes? Well, maybe you know some little girl about 8 years old, who is just as little-girlish as can be . . . a little girl who puts her finger in her mouth, who is shy, who nods her head vigorously and says "Ughh uh," and smiles when, maybe, she should say "Yes, sir."
That's the kind of little girl Mary Ann Jackson is. She is 8 years old, and like the little girl in the old reader, "her hair is thick with many a curl that clustered 'round her head." Come to think of it, maybe Mary Ann doesn't have any curls. No, she hasn't. But the 8-years-old part fits, anyhow.
Have you seen Mary Ann Jackson?
Oh, yes you have!
Nearly everybody has seen her.
I was with her a couple of hours the other day, and we had quite a visit. She's a mighty sweet little girl, and I loved her because she is little-girlish, because she nods her head and says "Ugh-huh" for "yes, sir," and wriggles, and doesn't sit still, and, Oh, she's a dandy!
But you insist you don't know Mary Ann Jackson? Aw, sure, you know her! She's one of the little girls in the Our Gang Comedies.
I asked her if she was in the picture where they tied the bonds to the tail of the kite, and she "ugh-huh-ed" and wriggled, and told me: "Tha's the one where Stymie throws the rock up and it comes down on his head!" Stymie is 6 years old, Mary Ann says. We talked about all the others . . . Chubby, and she and the others are missing Jackie Cooper, who made such a hit in "Skippy" that he's a star now, and the Gang lost him.