The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-11-21
PRUTS VISIT TO TIE MINISTER.

| 81 suppose YOU have called on the min
! ls:cr and his Wite.' Aunt Hanna said to
olues mother.
"Nc, l haven't yet answered she. Il
ought to have done SO, but I've been so
very busy, You know m always busy
at this season, getting the bows clothes
made for winter School begins next
wce@, and they need new coats. I'm
sorry / couldn't cal on them, as | think
It our duty TO try and make them feel at
home, and not as il they had come into a
uc.gAJorhood OF strangers
Yes, you ought to run over as soon as
you can, i y2ai doRf f]fa 9taF d,; five ;"u,ss
lister very much, and his wi,c IS Suttthh d
sweet little woman l know you will like
her quite fell in love with her, | as
sure Won. / fancy she's tritle home
sick, and if you could drop in for half
hour, soon, it might 90 her good. She
tod me she'd never been away from home
much, and you knCu our neighborhood
hasn't the knack of getting acquainted
with new comerS right away, so | don't
wonder she feels lonely. What's that
you're doing, Mary! Putting III the
sleeve wrong side, too, as sure as can be.
Let me help you" and then Aunt Hanna
and Prues mother fell to work on the
coat and quite forgot all about the minis
tel 5 wife for a time.
Now Prue had heard every word Aunt
Hanna had said. If you had been watch
ing her rs She busted herself with her
doll, you wouldn't have suspected that
She was paving attention to the conyer-
salon, but her sharp little ears heard it,
! aud Ii set her 10 thinking. If her mother
ought to call on the ministers wife, was
not She under some obligation to do the
/ sames OF course she was She'd been
| wanting to 90 somewhere all day. Why
! couldn't she run over and make her call
nowi
Say, mamma SAINT tail on re min
ter's to'kSes:' asked she, pulling at her
! mothers sleeve.
Dear me, how queer that l can't get
these pieces to fit :" Mrs. Dean was say
/ ing when Prue made her inquiry. This
/ facing ought to 90 here hajnt it, HannaG
WHAT'S that, Pruel Want to call on the
minister's folkSi Why yes; they'd be
delighted to see you, OF course. And now
this pocket-lid has to be sewed in this
way before it is stitched, doesn titl Pock-
cts always puzzle me-"
can may | DO now, an wear our new
|ontit an tIoak'' asked Prue, all on tip
toe with anticipation.
"Gcs, you may get your bonnet and
cloak, for all care, answered her moth
er without any idea OF what Prue'S re-
quest had been beyond thevague one that
there was something about bonnet and
cloak in it. Hanna, l do wish you'd see
what ails this pocket-lid."
PrUc ran up stairs as fast IS her feet
would carry her. She dragged open the
bureau drawer in which her mother kept
her new "bontit and tioak, and proceeded
10 array herself in them. The cloak was
3 great deal too large and long, but she
tried to remedy that by gathering it up
under her arms That didn't look well,
and she concluded to wear her mothers
broche shawl instead. So she got the
shawl out and spread it over her should
ers. The corners were inclined to triI
her up when she attempted to walk, but
she gathered them up in her hands, and
set out on her "call." She stopped in tbs
garden and broke off big branch o1
white chrySanthcmums.
III tarry EN- 10 the minister's wife,
nation, and added that 10 her bouquet.
For goodness sake, Robert = exclaimed
the minister's wife, as she looked out o.
the window. "Do come herer'
'.What is it!" asked the minister, com
ing to her side.
e Il don't know she answered; "0lC
Mother Goose, herself, l guess" and theI
both Of them burst out laughing at ii,
: comical figure coming up the path. /
was Prue, trying to look dignifed ant
solemn, a she supposed person ough
TO when coming to call on the minister
folks, with her shawl trailing on tn
ground behind her for foot or more
and her mothers new bonnet slippe,
: down over her head until there was YER
little but bonnet to be seen above he
: shoulders.
10! did you ever see such COMICS
sight:" cried the ministers wife. at
some little girl out promenading in he
. mothers things, I'm sure. There! she
knocking.
+ Tie minister went to the door an
I upea q It. Prue vail ed in with all th
> dignity and Occurrences imaginable.