The Columbia Democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1837-1850, 1845-12-27
ABBY'S YEAR IN LOWELL.
CHAPTER I,


i:sn'1 you speaAl Do you hear what Abby
'aysr
Anything worth hcaling! was the re-
lspOnse OF Mr.. Atkins, as he laid down She
New Hampshire Patriot and pcered owe,
IOis speC!acies with look which seemed to
Say that on event so uncommon deserved
particular attention.
why, she says she means to 90 10 Lo-
well and work in a factory
well wife, lei her co. and he took up
The Patriot again,
But don! see bow Ican spare her; the
spring cleaning is not done, nor The soqp
made nor the boys summer wear; and
ou say you intend to board your own
men folks, aud keep two more cows than
you did last year, aud Charley eau scarce
y 90 alone
'Bul you say she does not assist you any
about the house
well. husband, she might
Yes, she nigh, DO great many things
which she does not think Of doing; and, as
| do not see that shs means 10 bs use
luI here, we wll lat her 90 to the Gactc-
ries.
Father! are you in earnest! may GO TO
Lowcli?' said Abby, and raised her bright
black eyes to her fathers Ti!h look OF ex-
qusi'e delight
Yes. Abby, if you will promise me one
hing, and that is, that you will stay a
whole year withou, visiting as, except nin
Ease of sickness, and that you will stay but
,ne year.
IN promise anything. father, il YOU will
anIy lei me 60: thought you'd say had
1e,ie, stay at home, pick NJ stones, weed
he garden, and rake hay: but don! want
30 do such work any longer. May 90
with the Slater guIs next Tns'dayI for
that is tho day. they have SET for their Ic'
urn.'
'Yos, if you will remember you are to
stay year, aud only year.
Abby retired to iesl that night with a
rear' Auuering with pleasure; for, ever
since the visit of the Slater girls with, new
nix l,esses, Nlvarino boGno;s and iinwers
ace wells. and gluzs handkerchIc,s, her
nead had been filed with visions Of fine
clothes. She was naturally very fond Of
lrcss. and often, whlIo IIu!e glri' mad she
sat on the grass by the roadside watching
,he stage which went daily by her fathers
dwelling, and whsu she saw tho gay rib
5ods and smart shawls which passed like !
phantom before her wondering eyes, she
thought that when oldsr she TOO would have
such things and looked forward 10 woman
mood as TO a STATE in which the chief pleas
ure mus consist in wearing fine clothes
Bn, as years pasoel over her,she became q
ware that this was a sour2e from which she
could never dsrivo any enjoyment while she
remained at ho;ae,ior hsr father was noIIh"
ar able nor wiling to crafty her IN that re-
spect, and she had begun TO fear that she
must always wear the same brown cambrlc
bonnet, aud that a calico gowE would al
ways be her 'g0Lo-meot dIess'-but now
what bright picture had been formed by
her ardent and uncultivaled Imagination.
Yes she void go 10 Lowell, aud earn all
That she possibly could, and spend those
earuings for beautiful attire; she would
have silk dreSsss-one OF grass green, an
other Of cherry red, and ahoIher, uPon the
color OF which she would decide when she
lpurchaaed it,: and she would have new
lNavarlno bonnet lar more beautiful than
Judith Slater's: and when at last she fel
asleep, il was TO dream OF satin aud lace
and her glowing fancy reveIed all night ii
vast and beautiful collection OF miIliners
liuely.
Very different were the dreams Of Abby
mother: an when she awoks lhe mex
morning, her FIRST words TO her husban,
we're, Mr. Atkins, was you serious las
night when you told Abby that she migL
cl go to LoweIl7 thought at first you wa
Ut v,xed because interrupted you, aud eai
!! 10 stop Ihe CONVERSATION