Daily Republican., 1879-11-07

ma to know about Jones & Co., thougl
l was just crazy to tell her.
For several days we fooled her. Sh,
thought pa had a store down town, ant
| was going to school. And told lott
OF fibs about being detaiued at school
going about town, and all sorts O
stories to account for my being home
late.
One day who should see coming into
the store but ma!
Have you any pearl shirt buttons,
little girl ?" said ma.
Yes, ma'am," said l, looking her
square in the face.
Good gracious % said ma, is that
you, Vevie?"
| said "Beg pardon, ma lam, what
did you want ?" and ma looked at me
again.
l had store apron on, and small
cap like French girl, and because
wasn't very high pa bought me a pair
of wooden brogans, with felt on the
bottoms, into which | slipped my feet,
and they made me about four or five
inches taller. And ma stared at me,
and then laughed and said:
'Oh! | beg your pardon, little girl.
You looked so much like my daughter
Genevieve thought it was her.
Then | heard pa snicker down behind
th q n ha hol -.
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 around the block and get home
before your mother"
| did, and when ma got home she
was the most surprisedest woman you
ever seen. We knew this thing couldn't t
last, and so that night we told ma all
about the house of "Jones & Co.." and
ma kissed pa, and said he was "splen-
did, noble fellow, and just as good as
gold, and that she never was SO proud
of him in all her life," and fell to kiss
ing him and crying and taking on. l
never saw ma act 80 foolish in all her
life, and pa said she was 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, espe-
cially when some lady came in she had
known at the Lick House; but soon she
got over all that, and began to
make bonnets, and we had milli-
ner store; and then she insisted upon
saving the expenses ofa separate house,
and We moved into larger store next
door, with nice rooms fixed up to live
in, and nice show window for bon
nets, and little Maudie is beginning to
be handy about, and all of us work,
and We are just as happy as the day is
long, and have lots OF money.
| Inever seen Mr.. Flood but once since,
vhen | went down to the bank unbe-
known to pa, and told Mr.. Flood and
Mr.. McLane that any time they wished
to borrow a thousand dollars, Jones &
Co. would lend it to them and they
laughed, and l said, "They could tell
stocks might go down :" and then Mr..
Flood said, ''lf all the people he had
loaned money to would pay it back as
had, he didn't think he'd get busted
for long time"
And then saw the clerk that laugh
ed at me, and smiled at him and
bowed, and since then he has been
buying all his gloves at our store.
told him | thought he used a 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 4
Co., have bought a nice large lot ont
on Governor Stanford's new cable rail
road, and paid for it, and if times are
good this summer, as pa thinks they
will be, we shall have a house of our
own again, where We shall live in peace,
die in Greece, and be buried in cake