Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1865-08-04
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The Pink Calico Bag.

It was a birthday present. It'd made
it 70. her doll, three weeks old that Mon
day. 1t was five inches long. three
broad, aud drawn up on Il piece of bob
bin. lid" whose re name WIS Theo.
dora, and who was four years OF age,
thought it very pretty. So did the doll.
perhaps.
No one else wasted thought upon the
suhject.-espccially not lids pretty aunt,
Miss Paulina Priesty. Sac took no par
ticalar interest in children or children 5
toys. and at that momeat was particular
Iy unlikely to do so, for it was her own
birthday, and she had IL new toy Of her
own-a superb little Genava watch, pre-
sented to her by her grandfather, who
had her name down in his will. The
smaller watch is, the more its lady
owner prizes it. Miss Pauline's was
not the size of butter-cracker. and
was valued accordingly as .hc " sweetest
little watch ever seem
The young aunt and her small niece
ere together at Mrs. Barnstab!c's at :.
fashionable waterug-place which shall be
nameless.
Vulgar souls would have styled the
residence summer boarding house, but
Mrs. Barns.abIe, widow of the late Cap.
tain Barnstabe, would have been shocked
at the bare suggestion. To her it was
Villa Barnstabie, where. in the summer.
time, men. bers ct the first families assem-.
bled TO enjoy the pleasure of her and
each others society, and - the comforts Of
a home"
All friends; all well known to each
other; all very elegant and charming
boardcrs. o dear me! This summer
Miss paulina was the belle OF the Villa.
She had fine dress, good looks, and was
an heiress. The Misses Brown denied
her beauty, but admitted that she wore
lovely bonnets. Miss Scraggs won-
iered "what the men could see III that fat
girl" and supposed it was her money !;
aud married ladies' with young brothers
aud cousins thong int " it might be 4 good
ling for Charles or Henry after all"
As for the gentlemen, they adored her,
from Mrs. Captain Barnstable's eldest,
aped sixteen, TO the bachelor Jones, who
was, say forty.
Miss Pau ina, sent with It'd to the sea-
side for .' the dear child's health" consld-
cred ber duty done when she gave their
maid Dinah directions Tor her toilette,
and warned her "not to let the little mis
chief burn too black on the shore" So
that Miss lid roamcd at large, attended
by her duSky guardian, growing more
freckled every day, and forming an exten-
sve acquaintance with strangers as well
as the inmates OF the Villa, Juggling her
doll, and latterly, her dolls pink bng,
wherever she went.
Next to these possessions, It'd fincicd
her aunt Paulina's watch the prettiest
thing under the SUI, and believed that
Providence intended it for dolly on ac-
count Of its size. Consequently, when
Miss Paulina unwarily left her treasure
on her dressing-table one morning, the
bright eyes spied it out and the little feet
Chamber ed upon a chair at once. First
It'd stroked it with her snail paws, then
she hung TIE chain about her neck then
she swang it glcefully to and fro, and on.
ly resigned it regrettuly when summoned
by Dinah to her morning bath. Even
then, only fear of aunt Paulina's wrath
prevented her from carrying it with her,
and in the thought, she, for the first time
forgot her pink calico bag, and left it ly-
ing on the table beside the watch. Prob
ably the aristocratic toy regarded its ple-
bian companion with scorn. Yet their
fates we're linked together. No sooner
was lid off seaward than Becky, the
chamber-maid. entered the apartment to
dust and arrange it. She spied the watch
ON the taole. and vented her astonishment
in the words -
GLOW careless white folks is! F"
Then she essayed to open bureau-draw-
crs or the work. box, in order to place the
watch out of harms way. But in vain
all were closely locked. She knew Miss