The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1869-07-30
SOME TRIPS
BY
SOME GIRLS.
WHERE THEY WENT AND WHAT THEY
SAW.
WRITTEN BY ONE WHO IS INTIMATELY Ac-
ouA,vrED wlrH THE CIRCUMSTANCES,
AND
pEprcArED &c THE OTHER.
SOME TRIPS
VOL. 1.
OR aTHE LITTLE GREEN CALIc0Es."

OR "THE LITTLE GREEN cALic0ES'"
How perfect was the picture OF two
certain little pairs Of clean pantalettes,
and two little Green Calico dresses, as
they stood in the porch at f., one
intensely soon morning, waiting for
Uncle T. Ito come with the car
riage--- just fifteen years ago! To wait
for Uncle 7 with the carriage was
process always to be gone through at
A., and when it had been duly
performed on this occasion, and the
carriage had at last come; a big green
basket was lifted In with a supply OF
travelling snacks; aGrandma" entered
| next, and finally the little green call
Goes took their places. How the little
hearts bounded within them, and thrill
ed aud glowed with the mighty realiza-
tion of going some,rherei How could two
little green calicoes hold all that glorl-
Gus feeling of rolling on-on--on--''I
the road, with real packed-up trunk
behind, and going away oper the noun
tains, to great many new houses, tt
see a great many strange people, and tt
stay days and days and days Oh i
was too much: The little Green Cali
Goes almost burst wide open in the back
with excess OF emotion! They had of
ten played ladies and s'tenned like" al
this was happening, but now--over
whelming thought !--here was the real
| ity 2!
| The carriage in fact, was iumoerini
along slowly, up and down succession
of long, red hills-the beautiful, fres
morning was opening wider and wide
into glorious, staring, burning day
but the little Green Calicoes SSH move
in in sort of bewildering ecstacy !
They seemed borne ON air, aud at las'
when they caiue to plain. neat, ratlie
lonely looking, weather-boarded hous'
and their Grandma said "we will sto
here and take dinner with old Mr.
CO they beheld not at all con
mon-place weather boarded house, wit
) some ordinary aspens and few swe'
}, briars abou. it; but magnificent stru'
ture, set in lovely bowers of roses, an
shadowed by the noblest. grandest
trees.
Mrs. C-'s dinner being over, Il
the little calicose resumed their traye
in the same ecstatic frame, and oeiI
}, brought on their way, come in q
course to their ssAunt Ks" He
there was a real, actual, existing spri
, house, right in the yard, and no pictu
or story book about It'll There we
beside, two entire shy drangeas" In b
: white tubs, and full of pink blooms $
rs. ting each side the path which led to I
door; il was certainly like enchanting
, here
Another striking feature aoout'Au
Ks was. that 'Cousln G -
A kept store just across the. road, a
le that he had there, among other war
certain small glass plates and cd''o
= thus affording the little Green Cal'c'
Y, an opportunity for spending some
their five dollars. This, to them, in'
r haustlble sum, had been allotted by tn
~ Grandma tor. pocket money, and n
D, be said indeed, to have been the OF
cause of disquietude and annovan
the little callcoes haG The terrible
- sponsiblliry Of spending those five 9
lars, and the gnawing anxiety Will
SF single cent of them Remained, sett
sometimes almost like a weight u
5. their young spirits
The visit finally out at their "a
ks" the little Green Calicoes "
transported thence to their "Cor
Mary T-------'s" and theu-whata a (.
landl What an Aladdin's Palace
There was cottage in the yard wi
>, "Cousin Mary" had said was "for
children" There were beautiful wa
and beautiful drives, and above
ash there we're dining days, when "EI
Ids; and aNanny" came out in small q
attire !" Upon this development,
- little calicoes bethought them of GER
elaborately trimmed silks which
been packed up for them, but W
their Grandma would never admit
proper time had come tor weariu
&c 1t may be porularly supposed thai
degenerate race knows few condii
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