, 1880-05-06
Shilly- ShGlly.

Hopkins to-day p
q do know whether | will or not,
Sometimes | think | will, and then
again | think | won't. There's q good
deal to do to-day and it looks like
rain"
81 don't think twill rain, said uncle
Job, plastering his chin with lather.
"Maybe it won't, Job, but it looks
q little like it-kinder grayish like,
Still, we might take the umbrell, and
maybe I'd better 60. But I'm most
'fraid Mary Ann can't do all there is to
do"
"Hury and make up your mind,
Philena," called Job after her, as she
slowly retreated kitchenward, taking
down her back hair as she went
"Mary Ann says she can get along
with Sally's help, and l do know but
I'd 70 if l thought l shouldn't have
company this afternoon, and it didn't
look so doubtsome about rain"-leis-
urely dragging the comb through her
hair.
"Mother, what dress will you wear .
called out Mary Ann.
"Well, do know which I'd better
wear. Which do you think :"
"Your brown alpaca, Of course"
III would if l thought it wouldn't
rain, but if it should rain it would spot
it, I'm 'fraid. I reckon I'll wear the
black one. It's a little faded and
bracked, but if it should rain it wouldn't
hurt it."
"Come, come, Philena," cried Job,
"hurry up I'm going out to harness
the mare"
II am hulrying as fast as | can"
twisting up her hair. "Mary Ann, you
may take down my brown dress, while
1 change my shoes; though, come to
think ont, maybe I'd better wear these,
for if it should rain I'd hate to get the
others wet. Still, these don't look
hardly suitable to wear with the brown
dress. Perhaps I'd better wear the
black one You may take down the
black, one, Mary Ann. These shoes are
too shabby to wear with the brown one.
Come and see what you think of them,
Mary Ann"
"Change them quickly, mother, and
put on the brown dress. Fathers hitch
ing the mare to the buggy now"
SIS hel Well, I'll take another look
to see if it's likely to rain, and if I
think it amt I'll wear the brown one. 1t
don't look as much like it as it did, but
then you can't tell much about it at this
time Of the year, But guess I'll risk
it and wear the brown one. Get me
pair Of stockings, Mary AnnP
"Where are they, motherF
Sin the bureau drawer, | guess, Look
there frstq'
(which one9 They are not in the
first one"
"Well, then look in all of them, and
If they amt there, look in the basket
under the head OF my bed"
'Here they are under the bureau
but there's holes in them"
"Is therel Well, / meant to have
mended them Saturday, but 1 didn't get
to it." F5
"Philena Philena !" called Job.
"Yes, I'm almost ready. Mary Ann,
take up a needle and darn up the holes
in my stockings, will yous No, you
needn't either, The buttons are half of
'em of my boots--I meant to have put
'em on yesterday. but l forgot it. I'll
wear these I've got on, for / shouldn't
be a bit surprised if it did rain"
'sHere's your dress, mother; do put it
on. Father won't wait much longer"
"Oh, can't wear the brown dress
with these shoes. Bring the black one;
it's good enough for such a day as this.
For I'll bet anything that it will rain"
}Philena Marier Mathews voice
from somewhere outside, 1 amt ago
ing to wait for you more'n than four
hours longer" i4 sao1., see
"I'll be there in mint, Job. Mary
Ann, look in the closet for the umbrella.
Good lOrdy 7 there's hardly hook and
eye on this dress, but l guess / can pin
it up so twill do 1 ought to have put
some on, but | didn't get time. Mary
Ann, do hurry around and get me pin
or two."
81 can't find the umbrella"
smothered accents from the closet.
"Oant you ? Well, run out and ask
your father if he won't go to the barn
and look for it. 1 let George Washing
ton take it to play circus With don't
sPOse | ought to, but he cried for it, so
/ let him have it"