The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1880-10-19

very near the store, for pa didn't want
ma to know about "Jones Il Co.."
though 1 was just crazy to tell her.
For several days we fooled her. She
thought pa had store down town, and
was going to school. told lots Of fibs
about being detained at school, going
down town and all sorts of stories to
account for being home late.
One day who should see coming into
the store but ma.
Have you any pearl shirt buttons,
little girl 7" said ma.
Eyes, ma am" said /, looking her
right square in the face.
Goodness graciousl" said ma, is
that you Vevlep ?"
said: beg pardon, ma'am, what
did you want ?" And then ma looked
at me again.
had store apron on, and a small
cap like a French girl, and because 1
wasn't very high, pa bought me 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 look SO much like my daughter
Genevieve that 1 thought you was
her."
Then 1 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"
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 "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 to crying and taking on.
never saw ma act SO foolish in all her
life, 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 kind "a sheepish, especi-
ally 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 milliner
store and then she insisted upon saving
the expense of a separate house, and we
moved into larger store next door,
with nice rooms fixed up to live in, and
nice show-window for bonnets, and
little Maud is beginning to be handy
about, and all of us work, and we are
just as happy as the days long, and we
have lots of money.
/ have never seen Mr.. Flood but once
since, when went down to the bank
unbeknown of pa, and told Mr.. Flood
and Mr.. M'Lane 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 Mr.. Flood said, If all the
people he had given and loaned money
to would pay it back as l had, he didn't
think he would get busted in long
time"
And then saw the clerk that laughed
at me, and smiled at him and bowed
and since then he has been buying all
his gloves at the store. 1 told him j
thought he used great many pairs ol
gloves, and he said they wore out very
fast counting the money. Hei dread
full particular about his gloves, and ii
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 &
Co.-have bought nice lot out on Gov,
Stanford's new cable railroad, and ]
paid for it, and if times are good this
summer, as pa thinks they will be, we
shall have house of our own again
where we shall live in peace, die in
Greece, and be buried in a cake o
tallow.
The Right Woman in the Wrong Place.