Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1862-05-20

linen mothers and my room, two pair-
-FOUR comiorters-two quilts the best cham
Der has got
oh, Aunt nitty, send all that's in the
best chamber! Is any company comes we
can make 1t up off from our beds said John
i can send blanket or two off from nv
oed, know can't bu. just turn over in il.
so many clothes on, now
Aunt Hitty, take blanket off from our
bed, SAID Grace and Dick at once
Well, well, we'll see,' said Aunt Hitty.
busting up.
Up rose grandmama; with great earn.
estness, now, and On going to the next room.
and opening large cedar wood chest, re-
turned, bearing in her arms two large snow
white blankets, which she deposited fiat on
the table just as Aunt Hittey was whisk-
ing of the table cloth.
MORTAL Mother, what are you going to
doP said Aunt Hitty.
There she said, i spun those. eyerv
every thread Of 'em, when my name was
Mary ESens. Those were my wedding
blankets, made of real nice wool, aud
worked with roses in all the corners. I'ye
got them to givep and grandmama
stroked AID smootbed the blankets, and
patted them down with great pride and
tenderness. 1t was evident she was Civ
ing something that lay very near her heart:
but she never faltered.
La. mother, there's no need of that. said
Aunt lillty. Use them on your Own be
and send the blanket off from that; thew
are just as good for soldiers
mo. shan't! said the old lady, waxing
little warm: ''tisn't bit too good for
EN-, III send the very best I've got, before
they shall suffer Send 'em the best =
and the old lady Gestured Oratoricaliv.
They were interrupted bya knock at the
door, and two men entered and announced
themselves as commissioned by Congress
TO search out supplies for the army. Now
the plot thickens. Aunt Hittv flew in
every direction, through the entry passage,
meal room, milk room, down cellar. up
chamber-her cap border on end with nat
r;otic zeal; and followed by JOHN. Dick.
and Grace, who eagerly bore to the kitchen
tne supplies that she turned out while Mrs
Ward busted herself in quietly sorting and
arranging, in the best possible travelling
order. the various contributions that were
precip'tately launchedGn the kitchen floor.
Aunt Kitty soon appeared in the kitchen
with an armful of stockings, which, kneel-
on the floor, she began counting and LAYING
out.
There she said, laying down large
ouhoie on some blankets. that leaves lust
two pair apiece, all round
La said John, what's the use of saving
TWO Ialr Tor me? l can 90 with one pair
as well as father
Sure enough said his mother, besides.
can Emit you another pair in day.
AND can do with one pair said Dick.
Tours Will be too small, young master,
L guess said one of the commissioners.
NO, said Dick, 4 have got pretty good
foot OF my own, and Aunt Hitty will al.
ways KNIT my stockings an inch too long,
cause she says grow so. See hers-these
Wall do; and the boy shook his head trium
phantly.
And mine too said Grace, nothing
doatt9ng, having been busy all the time IN
p0iiing tff her her little stockings.
Here she said to tho man who was
packing the things into widemouthed
sack; here's mine and her large blue
eyes looked earnestly thro' her tears.
Aunt Kitty ilew at her. 'Goud land
the ch!ld's crazy. Don't think the men
could wear your stock.ngs-take 'em
| away
Grace looked around with an air of utter
1 N''N ~ W " Nduieu To
| give them Something said she: I'D rather
| go barefOoted on the snow all day, than not
send them anything.
| Give ne tae stockings, my child said
the cid soldier. There, I'll take 'em, and
show 'em to the soldiers, and tell them
what the little girl said that sent them
And It will do them as much good as if they
c"0ld wear them. They've got little girls
at home, too Grace Tell on her mothers
bosom completely happy, and Aunt Hitty
! only muttered-
Every body does spoil that child, and no
wonder, neitherp
| Soon the old sleigh drove off from the
brown house tightly packed and heavily
loaded. And Grace and Dick were creep
ing up to their little beds.
There's been something put on the
altar Of Liberty to- night, has mt there Dick?
Yes, indeed said Dick ; and looking
up to his mother, he said, But mother
what did you give p
Il said the mother, musingly.
Yes. you, mother: what have you giveI
to the country?'
All that have, dears,' said she, layin.
her hands gently on their heads-'my hus
band and my childrenr