Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1879-05-01

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| III she didn't want lo g. sore, and
she said = Do y0u w. ~ store.
little girl -
And | said: ssAy - 1ks. 9. And
she smiled and saidhhe Ahesher-
III would have siore n 9 isw
days, and / said woas p besanse
be knew Numan, the "a was
one Of MT. Numzn's ne 9S ID pas
horses and furniture e -
And tie next .dHB Ii j
ssares - - 1lce
be said be bad been dry 80
once, had had large store sold
silk dress goods and yelvets : Rd furs
and laces, worth ever 80 muq yard,
and India shawIs worth more nan .
thousand dollars apiece.
don't know exactly what pa did,
but think something turned up q
few days afterwards. for heard him
say he had made a "raise," and he
showed me more than thousand dol
lars in gold notes, and Tor day or two
he carried them in side pocket, and
mostly kept his hand over them for fear
they would jump out and NY away; and
pa bought me some-shoes and hat, and
stuff for aprons, and made them my
self, and ! never saw pa look so happy
since ma went away; and one-day he
said to me: ''Vevie, / have bought the
store on Polk street. and you are to be
my sales-woman and partner"
And sure enough, in few days We
went into the store, and over the door
was great big sign OF Jones s Co.,
and pa said | was the "Co." And when
said, 'and so. pa, Yon are Jones'" he
blushed, and / guess he didn't like his
old friends to know that he was selling
needles and thread, and tape and
things.
We had two snug little rooms in the
back of the store to sleep in, and made
pas bed and swept out the rooms and
tidied things.
At first pa shut up the store when ne
had TO go down town on business, but
after alittle while tended 1t, and when
there was two customers in the store |
waited on one, and 1t wasn't long be-
fore could make change and sell things,
and add up almost as good as pa could
and by and by when ne went down
town | tended Store and we had sPlen-
did times.
We went out TO nice place across
the street for meals. tended store
when pa went, and pa teqdea tore
when went.
One day pa came in and looked dread
ful troubled, and then said. Pa, am I
partner, and don't partners have a
right to know everything, and am you
hiding something about Jones . Go
And then | found out that pa had bought
too many things for the store, and that
note for thousand dollars had to be
paid, and that there wasn't any money
to pay it with, and that's what made pa
feel bad. And then l thought and
thought, and wondered how | could get
thousand dollars. and kept on think:
ing overeverybody that guessed bad
a thousand dollars. and every one
guessed had it, ! guessed wouldn I
lend Il to pa. And then | thought about
MIR. Flood and said, "ih 90 down TO
his bank and get it, for he's got more
than. thousand millions, and down in
the Bank OF Nevada the cellar is full OF
gold, and Of course he don't want to use
1t all the time, and | will borrow a
thousand dollars for pa, and before Mr..
Flood wants il I'll take il back to him,
and pay the interest" And then |
jumped up and hurrahed for "Jones s.
Co.," took my bonnet and put on my
cloves. and took of my store apron and
combed my haIr, and got into car and
went TO the Nevada Bank, and told the
clerk wanted 10 borrow q thousand
dollars: and he laughed and he guessed
''I had better see Mr.. McLane." And
I asked who Mr.. McLane was. The
clerk said Mr.. McLane was the presi-
dent, and was in the back room, and
went into the back room, and Mr.. Me-
Lane said:
/" Well, little girl, what can / do for
you 20
And I said: al want to borrow a
thousand dollars"
MIR. McLane opened his eyes. and
screwed his chair round. and looked at
me. and said, ga thousand dssIars !''
With as much surprise as though thou
sand dollars was all the money be had
in the bank. Then began to get scared
and cry, and then I told Mr.. McLane
all about pa and s'Jones & CO." and
what we wanted to do with the money,
and that / would pay It back 10 him;
and he looked kinder puzzled, and asked
me what my pas name was, and I told
him, and where The store was, and all
about me and Maud, and how the baby