Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1878-09-11

Yes for the fragrance was very sweet
so sweet that she thought she must pin
it to her neck and wear it at encc.-
And as she and her mother worked up
on the simple dress it seemed to grow
more beautiful every day, until the time
for wearing it came.
why, Chris, how you shine y said
the little ones when she was dressed
and kissed them all around.
% Chris, how splendidp the girls
cried. Has your uncle come from In
dla or wherever did you end such love
of a diess! and Con Livingston, in her
dainty dress, swept all its grace and
laces about her while she gathered Chris
IN her arms and kissed her again and
again, saying, You ale just the sweet
est fairy that ever was seen on this
PLATFORM until the tears filed Chris
eyes, she was so full of joy, and with a
great sob she started up to find herself
in the little low chamber with sloping
ceiling, the vision and the dress disap.
peared, and only the memory of the
bright dream left. But looking out to
the silent moon and the still nigh t,
Chris sat and thought, until the perfume
Of the wonderful plant stole into hel
soul, and she prayed the loving Master
that, however plain the dress she must
wear in earthly eyes, in His sight il
might be fair indeed.
When shall l go to look for my bon
ny calico, motber?' she asked in tn,
morning. Il must begin it soon.'
DO you think you can be satisfied
Chris p
And such an anxious question as il
was. The mother had lain awake, too
that night.
OF course | can mother. It's ME
not my dress, people must admire fol
once.'
Here it the money, then. l have
saved it as 1 could.
Chris thought so when her pocket wa:
weighed down with the nickels. But
she realized, too, what the saving o.
her mother had been.
Liz wanted to 90, so her sister waited
to comb the tangled hair and find the
lost hat before starting out, throwing
back kisses to Cora and baby.
4 was afraid Chris would be broken
hearted quite, said the neither fsndly ;
but l do believe she's the best girl ever
mother had
And, meanwhile, up in great block
OF stores Chris and Liz were turning
over the many piles Of prints, selecting
first one and then another, until fairly
bewildered with so many.
4 think I'll have this, said Chris at
last, choosing white ground with a
delicate sprig Of black.
oh, Chris, take this. See, it's al
most the same; but it's blue, and so
pretty
'Eut l like this better, dea'.'
'Oh, no this is so lovelw'
Now, Liz was only a harumscarum
girl of eleven, and the Mack did seem
the pretticst; but Chs thought it did
not mater so much IS yIeasing her sis
ter. 50 Liz was Fatifed, the little bun
die made up, ard they went out.
They werNery busy davs that fol-
lowed. TIL, dress got along but slowly,
for lesson and baby must have first
place. o'course.
1t wg almost examination day, and
Chris had stopped one night where she
coulJnave the quiet school room to go
ove,the topics of that long literature
tbs was to be the final recitation of the
sdiors, when she heard Fan Ellis
Dice:
4 do wish some person would so over
these topics with me. Inever can re-
cite unless go over them once out
loud. Won't some one hear me?'
But the girls all had too much busi-
ness Of their own, and they realized
what hearing Fan, the Ounce of the
class, would be. Chris, saw her COM
Ing out of the dressing room with tears
on her cheeks. That touched her.
What is it Fan? can 1 help you?' she
asked from her corner.
Fan turned. is that you, Chris?
want to go over my topics with some
one, and the girls are too busy. They
have time enough for me when have a
treat.
'I'll hear you, Fam.
%, Chris, that's good! When''
Now, and here,' was the reply.
1t was almost dark when the two
girls left the school building, and the
topics only two-thirds through then.
Wen finish tomorrow night said
Chris.
Thank you, Chris; l never studied
50 hard before, but you see my father is
10 be here, and he says if | do we'll he
will give me a watch and chain, but if
not, l can not have one for two years.
Il hope you will said Chris heartily,
and guess you will too But she
wondered about her own lesson until
'he found that helping to fix it in Fans
mind had been better for herself than
my amount of study, and so she was
ully repaid.
1t was the night before the great day, |
ind Chris came home late to find the
lress still unfinished. Baby had been
ick all dav and the mafber lookad nola