The Newtown bee., 1879-04-22

grandpa gave ma the money to come, and so we didn't have to borrow any more; and we took nice cottage, not very near the store, for pa didn't want ma to know about Jones x Co.,, though I was just crazy to tell her.
 For several days we fooled her. She thought pa had a store down town, and I was going to school. I told lots of fibs about being detained at school,. stories to account for being home late.
 One day who should I see coming into the store but ma. res
 "Have you any pearl shirt-buttons, little girl?" said ma.
 "Yes, a'am," said I, looking her right square in the face.
 ''Goodness graciousw said ma. Is that you, Vevie."
 said: Beg pardon, ma'am, what did you want?" And then ma looked at me again.
 l had @ store-apron on, and small cap like French girl; and, because I wasn't very high, pa bought me pair of wooden brogans,. with felt on the bottoms, into which I slipped my feet, and they made me four or five inches taller; and ma stared at me, and then laughed and s;tid
 "Oh, I beg your pardon, little girl; you look so much like my daughter Genevieve that thought you was her."
 Then l heard pa snicker down behind the counter. He had seen ma come in and hid. Just as soon as ma went out pa jumped up and laughed, and said, Snatch off your apron and cap, Vevie, and run round the block and get home before your mother"
 I did, and when ma got home she was the most surprised woman you ever seen. We knew this thing couldn't last, and so that night we. told ma all about the house of "Jones & Co.,, and ma kissed pa and said he was @ "splendid, noble fellow, and just as good as gold" and that she never was so proud of him in her life," and fell to kissing him and to crying and taking on. 1 never saw ma act so foolish in all her lite, and pa said she twas making love to him over again"
 Well, now, the story is about over. Ma came down to the store to help. At first she looked kinder sheepish, es- pecially when some lady came in that she had known at the Lick House; but soon she got over all that and began to make bonnets, and we had a milliner store; and then she insisted upon saving the-expense of a separate house, and we moved into larger storeMext door, with nice rooms fixed up to live in and a nice show window for bonnets; and about, and all of us work, and we are just as happy as the days long, and have lots of money.
 I have never seen MT. Flood but once since, when l went down to the bank unbeknown to pa, and told MT. Flood and MT. McLane that any time they wanted to borrow thousand dollars Jones & Co.," would lend it to them; and they laughed and said "they couldn't tell-stocks might go down" And then MT. Flood said " if all the peo- pie he had given and loaned money would pay it back as I had, he didn't | think he would get busted in a long time."
 And then I saw the clerk that laughed at me, and I smiled at him and bowed and since then he has been buying all his gloves at the store. I told him thought he used great many pairs of gloves, and he said they wore out very fast counting money. He is dreadful particular about his gloves, and if there is nobody in the store but me he is sometimes half an hour picking out just the kind he wants.
 Pa has bought splendid gold watch "a real stem -winder; and we" Jones & Go, ,"-have bought nice large lot out on Gov. Stanford's new cable railroad, and paid for it; and if the times are good this summer, as pa thinks they will be, we shall have house of our own again, where we shall all live in peace, die in Greece, and be buried in a cake of tallow. MARY JANE JONES. -SGn FrG1aeiSco Argo7aaatt.