, 1873-10-18
Shiiiy.ShaIIy.


"Wel, Philena, " said Uncle job to his
wife, ''are you going to see sister Hopkins
to-day?'
81 do know whether | viii or not
Sometimes think viii, and then again
/ think | won't. There's good deal to do
to-day and it looks like rain"
u don't think twill rain, said uncle
job, pIastering his chin with lather.
Maybe It won't, Job, but It Looks a
little like it-kinier grayish Ike Still,
Es might take the ambrclI, and maybe Z 4
better %. RIt IN most fraid Mary Ann
c.tn I do Ill thu.- Is - 20. 90
Hurry and make up yJur mind, Phil
cna, called job after her, = she siogly
retreatad kitcheaward. taxing down her
back hair As she went.
/ Mary Ann says she e4u set along
with Sully's help. and DO know but i
| 70 il I thought shoulil'I have comp ny
/ this Afternoon, GuI It 4lIn't tIook so doubt
some about ran' ''-leiSu-4ly dragging the
( comb through har hair.
Mother, what dross wii you wear 2'
called out Mary Ann.
"Weu, d. know which I'd better
wear. Which DO you think I'd better =
"Gour brown alpaca, of course"
{ ~ wyult Il thought IL wyulI,. rlia,
/ but i It sIlMa ram it woaId spot it, N
fr4il. I reckon II wear the black one.
: Its d Htt.e faded and brac!led but il it
should RUN it wouldn't hurt it.
Como, come, FhlIicna,' cried Jub,
hurry up Ira going out to harness the
mare.
- AN hurrying as fast as | can, "
tvsi-ting up her hair. MARY Ann, you
may take down my brown dress, while
ehauge my shoes; though, come to think
I On I maybe ] d better wear these, Tor Ii it
shoEld r1l:r J hate to get the others wet.
| Sui, these don't look hardly suitable 10
war with the brown dress. Perhaps I d
better wear the black one You may take
down tho black one, Mary Ann. These
| shoes arc too shabby 10 wear with the
brown one. Maybe Ia better take item
otf. Come and s-e whit you think Of them
Nary Ann
Change them qu.al, mother, and put
DG the brown dress. Fathers hItchIng
/ he maze to the buggy HON.
/ al he W.. III take another look to
sec ii thin, It ; likely 20 rain, and il /
! think / a!u why Il wear the brown one
| L don [ Iool, ~ l.uch l.l-eis as itdid, but
then yUu can / tell mu,h about It this
tine O.. year. But guess III risk il, and
| wear the brown ouc. Get Inc pair OF
I -....l-,,.,- Nf.r,r Ann -
where are they, mother
"!n the bsrea- drawer, ! guess. Look
there first. -
(Which onez They are not in the Hrst
one"
Wei, then look in all of them, and If
| they amt there, look in the basket mud r
| the head Of my bod. ~
Here they are under the bureau-bat
! there holes in thcu.'
''Is there Wen, meant 10 have mend
ed them Saturday, but didn get to It. -
"Philena Philena - called job
'sYcs, I'm almost ready. Mary Ana,
take needle aud darn up the holes in I2y
stockings, Will youE No, you needn t,
! either The buttons art half of EN- Qt my
! boots-I meant to have sewcd EN- ~ yes
terduy, but l forgot it. III wear these
I've got on, for I shouldn't be i bit sur
! pri-ef il it did C,iI.
Here's yours dress, mother; DO pat It
! on. Father won't wait much longer.
ooh, can'tweag the brown dress with
these shoes. Bring the black one; It's good
Dnugh for such day as this, for Il bet
, a.y.hiaS twill rain
"Phil-na Nariar Mathews! voice froIn
somewhere outside, I aia ag0ins 70 wait
iJr You more f1Ur hours longer
IN be .nera IN Q mint, job. Mary
| Anu, look IN the closet for the umJreli.
/ Good !o-?y there's hardly . hook and eye
Oh THE dress, hut guess : can pin 1t uE
- twill do. ought 10 have pat some on,
but didn' get time. Mary Ann, do hnnt
around an get me pin or two"
Il can I find the umbrella in smother
ed accent from the closet.
Can't you! Well, run out and ask
your faith, If he woc't go TO the ba-n and
| look Tor It. I let George Washington take
it to play circus with don't s'Plse
ought to, but he cried for It. 50 lei him
have it.
"rather. father l"-to JOB, who had
moro 10 endure than lis uamrSake did IL
his i.5g. mother wants you to -
! to III barn ana lock for the umbrella
Darn the Old onu-ella 'TWon't rain
in a week ''-claIuJeriny 10 the ground,
..T,.l your mother i she ala 'tretdy wh,I
II Eat back won't wait another but
| Mary Ann hal gone.
u do declare, Mary Ann, I'm good
niud not 20 20 now l know twill rain
and shall come back s5p2ing Wet. AnC
| &l@Il get sCah 2 cold.
- can't find the umbruL. 'Taiat there,
said Job. Come along! Yoa don't wan
it."
Job Mathews! I'm 10. going to sti
one step without II. It VII Rim dogs an,
cats.
I'm going"
s,No. you amt. Tie my bonnet quick
Mary Ann. There goes the string Neve
-niul-Il hold It on. The wind don
blow much. There's PIN on your waist
Give It to me quick,'
. '.fhi-.c-HG-c-q Are yuG ever a-cCmInS
! IIlbe d-os-oned ii II wait any long
cr,"
Just a mint, Job. Oh, here's I'll
b ,,-nJrall, right behind the sofa I'm com
4 ing now, quick's find my gloves a!
q right. Here I be Jo- Mary Ami he
gone r'-E c.JH Rbral.
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