New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1880-07-07
"'Twon't be no use: If he's lied once

he Ii lie twice; Scriptur says the devil
was a liar from the beginnin'. and Iex-
poet that means that Il YIN is ingram. 1
never knowed it to be fairly knocked
out of anybody yet, even when amazin'
grace wrastled with it. But you call
Jack, anyhow"
So Jack was called.
He came in, with Janey, flushed,
lovely and dirty, trotting behind him,
and was confronted with the bonnet
"Jack. did you hide it?''
~ hain't touched your old bonnet. l
| said SO before"
An idea struck Sarah.
Clancy" she said, sharply, "did
you put aunty's bonnet under the
cushion?''
clancy don't member said the
child, smiling as innocently as the con-
ventional cherub of art.
"Well, you must remember!' said
Sarah, picking her up from the floor,
and setting her down with emphasis on
the table.
Janey began to cry.
| Naughty Salah hurt Janey!' and
the piteous tears coursed down her rosy
dust-smeared cheeks from those big blue
| eyes that looked like dew-drowned for
| get-me-nots.
Aunt Beulah could not stand this.
You let that baby alone, Sarah! She
don't know enough to be naughty, bless
her dear little soul! There, there, don't
you cry mite more, Janey. Aunty'll
give you gingcr-cookcy this very
minute!'
And Janey was comforted with kisses
apd smiles and gingerbread, her face
washed, and her curls softly turned on
tender fingers, while Jack. longing for
gingerbread with the preternatural APP
petite of a growing boy, VAS sent Off in
disgrace.
IL make no doubt You done it, you
little rascal, and lied it out, too But I
| don't b'licve you no more for your
| lynn; SO don't look for no cxtries from
me. Fellcrs like you don't get GIN
gcrbread nor turnovers, now l tell
your
How Jack hated her! how glad he
was he had spoiled her bonnet! Shall
draw moral here to adorn my tale?
No, dear reader; this is not a treatise
on education. Miss Beulah was good
woman, and if she made mistakes, like
the rest of us, she took the conse-
quences, IS the rest of us do; and the
consequences of this spoiled bonnet
were not yet ended.
Sic felt as if she must have a new
one for Sunday. She really did not
know how to afford it, for she had
promised to help Sarah. and in her eyes
promise was US sacred as an oath;
and as for giving up her subscriptions
to home missions, that would be u will
full sin. But without i bonnet she
could not go to meeting. and that was
a sin, too. SO she put on her SNn-bOn-
net, and, taking The wreck OF the
Leghorn, carefully concealed in pa
per, she set out after tea that same
evening for conference with Miss
Beers, stopping at the post-ollicc as
she went along. She found one letter
awaiting her, and knew by the super
scription that it was from u second
cousin of hers in hartford, who had
charge Of such money Of hers rs was
not in the savings bank. or hartford
and Oldbay Railroad stock I'll Dad pay
ing steady dividends.
| "Of all thingsr' said Miss Beers,
lifting up hands and eyes during Miss
Bculah's explanations. "And you can't
do nothing with it--nevcr. Why, it's
ilattcr'n pancake. Well, you couldn't
expect nothing else, with Miss Blake
on top ont; shed squash baby out Us
| thin as tin plate il she happened to
set ont, which | do hope she won't.
| See! the Leahorn's all broke up. told
you twas dreadful brittle; and the rib
bin is spoiled entire You can't never
clean lavender, nor yet satin, it trays
so; and the lace is all gum; anyway,
that's gone. Might Us well chuck the
hull into tie fire
So do, injury Jane, SO do. I never
no patience with that boy now, and the
burnit rjIcS me to look at. do want
70 do right by the boy, but it goes
against the grain dreadful. But don't
let S talk about him. What have you
got that III do for !, bunnit for mc?'
Then the merits of the various bon.
nets in Miss Beers small stock were
canyasscd. A nice black chip suited
Aunt Bculah well. but try as she would
Miss Beers could not get it up for less
than six dollars, and that only allowed
twenty-five cents for her own work
The alternative was Il heavy, coarse
straw, which she proposed to deck with
a yc!Iow-cdgcd black ribbon, and pu,
some gold-cyed black daisies inside
But Miss Bculah did want the chip.
"LeCs sce,' said she. ''Mabbo thi.
years dividend is seven per cent; It's
once in a while III see what Cousin
Joseph says. If tain more than usual,
[ must take the straw
But Cousin Joseph had To tell hei
that. owing to damage by Hood ana fire.
rs well as n general: disturbance: nI
business all over he country. :l, {. \
Company paid no ;liyid'H,@ ~ ,r1r
"Thcn l shan't have no bunnit," said
Miss Larkin, firmly.
"Why, you've got to have some kind
Of q bunnit,'' said the amazed Miss
Beers
II hain't got to if I can't"
.'But why can't yc, Beulah? All your
money and all your dividends amt in
that comp'ny."
"Well, there's other uses for money
CHS year besides bunnits.'
You can't 60 to meetin'.';
Il can stay to home"
"Why, Bculah Larkin. I'll trust you
and welcome"
''But I won't be trusted. l never
was, and never will be. What if
should up and die?''
I'D sue the cstate,' practically re-
marked Miss Beers.
emo: out of debt, out of danger,
mother always said, and I believe int
l shall hate to stay to home Sundays
but l can 60 to pray i'll my
slat bunnit well enough"
"Why, the churchill deal with ye
Beulah, if ye neglect stated means O.
grace
"Let 'em DEAL" was the undauntet
answer. Miss Beulah had faced the
situation, arranged it logically, ane
, accepted it. She had promised Saral
fifteen dollars in juno; she had lost :
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