The Westerly echo, & Pawcatuck advertiser. [volume] (Westerly, R.I.) 1854-1858, 1855-10-04

be the prcttiest of them all-the youn.
girls might make hearts or arrows in tn,
corners, just as many as they choose
Everything had gone just right-ever
the two ginger-cakes, baked in the great
bread pan, had not burned one spcck
top nor bottom there was only the
least imaginable drawback to her happi.
ness, on two accounts; she feared her
friends would tire themselves to death
with quilting so fast and nice and she
began to fear the most charming of her
neigh ors were not coming, for it was
now ten minutes past two, and Mrs.
Wolfe could not be seen in the distance.
| do hope she will come, said one to an
other all around the quilt, for all were
looking to Mrs. Wolfe, as they always
did, for patterns of the fashions-snce
she, be it known, was the most stylish
woman in all the neighborhood
Anne Hardly was appealed to, she
being thought likely to know the proba-
bilities, inasmuch as she went out sew
ing ) but Anne, quiet young woman
Of some thirty odd years-how many
odd it had been a good while since Anne
had said-did not know anything about
it she never sowed for Mrs. Wolfe
she could not SOW well enough, she sup
posed !; ard as Anne said thiss be-
needle refused to penetrate up through
the cotton Of the quilt, and with ner-
vous jerk she broke it in two upor
which Mrs. Weed, looking very hard at
her quilting, but silly touching the ell.
bow of Mrs. Speed, said she guessed
somebody remembered how somebody
got the advantage of her with certain
Mr.. Mr. W, many years ago as it
was, Mrs Weed lowered her eyes to the
quilt, and putting her voice into one of
those questionable tones, neither whisper
nor anything else, said she believed if
there was ever true love in the world,
somebody felt it for somebody even yet;
ami she went on to say that she remem-
bered when Mr.. NJ. vs. was live
y as could be, and in all ways as prom
ising young man as could be found in
the meeting house of a Sunday. Per-
haps Anne fell the talk was eff her, and
determined to let them know she did not
care for Wolfe, and never did; for she
said with some asperity that likely Mo-
ses had bent together, and Mrs. Wolfe
was waiting to straighten him up before
she came.' There was laugh, which
subsided with the tapping of Mrs. WolIe's
fan on the side Of the door-framc, and
the shining of her black eyes on the
company as she gathered up the silk
aounces of her dress and revealed va
riety of tape-trimmed and frilled petit
coats. The feathers Of all the ladies
dropped at once, though in the absence
of competition they had felt that they
looked pretty smart not dress in the
house had cost so much as the lace or
Mrs. Wolfe's cap, to say nothing of her
Leghorn bonnet, vail of three yards il
length, ivory-handled parsol, and bo'ter
fan-all the other ladies having fan,
made of goosequills gathered in theil
own meadows.
Anne Hadley looked though fully
down at her own washed and ironcd
gingham gown and Mrs Weed whis.
pered to Mrs. Speed, that the tears al
most came into her eyes as she did so
She glanced at the heavy lace of the
cap, and almost disdainfully pushed back
her own abundant tresses and With a
SIGH which she did not mean any one
should hear, quilted on very fast, though
she had done already, Mrs Fundy said,
as much as any other two women at the
guilt. -,
All we're so glad that Mrs Wolfe was
come for her 6ue dress gave eclat, as
il we're, to the quilting party aud all
we're so anxious to know why she had
not come sooner, that Anne was quite
forgotten presently--and quilted, and
quilted, and quilted in the saddest 81.
lence.
All the papers that held garden seeds
or other things, in Mrs Fundy's house
we're united, and the torn aud wrinkled
pieces pressed smooth with hot iror
and carefully stitched together, in order
to serve for the patterns Of Mrs. Wolfe