The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1877-02-22

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such chance in hurry as this will be
to get them for almost nothing'
well, If we really need them why
don't you 60 to a furniture shop and
buy them, and have it done with? l
don't understand your fancy for having
the house eternally crammed with sec
ond-hand stuff
But, Harry, don't you know the
Conants would not be likely to have
any thing but the best? And anyway
it would do no harm just to look in as
| 60 down town" .-.-
"Oh, well, have your own way, nv
dear. But I know what your slook-
ing in to an auction sale means, to my
sorrow. But here's your money, and
you can do as you like"
So the colloquy ended.
| The next afternoon when Mr.. Camp
came home to dinner, his wife led him
into the parlor and triumphantly ex-
hibited to him two very elegant easy
chairs, covered with crimson Gamask
The gentleman admired them as mat
ter of course, then carelessly inquired
how much she had paid for them. Mrs.
Camps bright face clouded a little as
she said, half apologetically:
81 gave little more than expected
to, but they are such beauties. Mrs.
| Deane bid against me, too, and l was
determined she shouldn't have them.
| They'd look nice, to be sure, on her old
faded carpet! l had to pay $50 for the
two"
Mr.. Camp lifted his eyebrows.
''Rather expensive, weren t thsy?"
swell, don't think they were so
very, considering they are such hand
some chairs. don't believe that they
cost less than 800 when they were
| new."
"Tut, tut, my dear; they never cost
| any thing like such sum. But don't
let us quarrel about two chairs. Did
you see any thing else worth buying
"Oh, such lots of things, Harry-the
| house was just elegant. But didn't
buy any thing else there but couple of
vases for the sitting-room mantle. They
were so cheap and pretty 1 couldn't
help it. Then [ went down to Madame
L. Heureux's to see about my new bon
net, and coming home / saw some
blankets in Bruce's window, marked
| down to almost nothing, so went in to
look at them, and they were really very
good for the prices-colored to be sure,
but thought they would do nicely for
| Margaret's bed, SO bought pair of
them, and Margaret is going to put
them on her bed tomorrow morning.
She rather turned up her nose at them,
because they were not white, suppose;
but told her there were plenty of poor
people who would be glad to get color
ed blankets, and l thought they'd do
for hers
81 don't blame Margaret" said Mr..
Camp, with q little annoyance in his
tone; {" "gray blankets always look dirty
to me, and don't know why an old
servant like Margaret shouldn't have
white ones, if she prefers them, as long,
| if L m not mistaken, there's almost suf-
ficient for regiment in the house al
ready. l shouldn't have thought that
you'd have bought any more blankets,
Laura, and at Bruce's, too-a dirty,
second-h hand shop. You don't know
where his goods may come from, nor
what sort of people may have used them
before you.'' III.
"Oh, I'll risk all that" was Mrs.
Camps careless answer, "and as for
the blankets, | didn't really need them,
but they were so~cheap, and they were
just as good for Margaret's use as my
white ones, and can save them for
some special occasion. Blankets won't
spoil, and you know, if you keep a
thing seven years you'll find use for
! it."
81 had ought to know it by this
time, "was the laughing response; s'for
you've told me often enough. The
only trouble is, if you keep on filling up
the house, we shan't have any room at
all to keep things over night, even, let
| alone for any longer PERIOD ..-.
| Mr.. Camp sauntered off down town
again. a ="
For a fortnight or so every thing
moved on quietly in tie Camp house
| hold.
There happened to be no auctions in
the neighborhood, and Mrs. Camp was
too busy sewing to have any time to
run round to secondhand shops, so
that for little while the demon of bar
gains seemed to have lost its sway over
the mistress of the house.
Then one evening Mrs. Camp met her
husband at the door with an alarmed
face. t5 .e .r "a.
"Margaret is verv i'll, Harry, and I've
been waiting for you so impatiently to
go for the doctor. | am afraid she is
going to to have fever.n
"11l go right off now, Laura was
Mr.. Camps quick response. "You'd
better keep the children away from her
| till we know what is the matter"
81 have-all but Ada-who is sitting