When “Miss Bill” left her Snowland to come to the United States with AH-NI-GHI´-TO and her mother, she left her father and mother and two sisters, who were very proud to have her go to the land of the white man, and see the animals and trees and houses and people whose pictures they had seen in magazines.
In a year, when the ship returned for AH-NI-GHI´-TO’S father, “Miss Bill” would come back and tell her people all about the strange things she had seen.
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By the time Philadelphia was reached, AH-NI-GHI´-TO had begun to talk, and called “Miss Bill” “Billy-Bah.” By this name she is known among her people to-day. “Billy-Bah” was about twelve years old, and never in her life had she seen a house larger than the little one-story black house where the stork brought AH-NI-GHI´-TO as a baby; never had she seen a bush or a tree, and never a horse or a cow, a wagon or a carriage, a train of cars or a steam-engine.
“Then the Sun went away”
She had never had a bath until AH-NI-GHI´-TO’S mother gave her one on board ship, and she could not understand why she must wash herself and brush her hair every morning.