The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1881-08-18

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TKr STORE

anu 3 clerk in oonairy store, An,
sometimes wish had been martyr il
those days When they stretched people oI
beds Of spikes. or roasted them on, 3 grid
iron. Then think ! could take . listl
comfor, in life
This is the way: i am behind tn
couuter on the side whore they keep prints
and there trots mp TO the opposite sid
where we keep hannels, customer Meth
or young nor beautiful i hurry around AMI
across, and she asks for calicoes; then
turn her about. and make my way back
and pull down half dozen pieces, bu
she just gaEss st the shelves. said she
like to look at the under piece on the tor
shelf: climb up at the risk Of breaking
my neck. and get the under piece out
and she concludes tisnt what she though,
il was. Then she says she'd like TO look
cat the Stripes" / blunder on 10 every
other stripe before get her particular
stripe. Then she says she wants figure
and get all the little figures out for her.
She wants to know how much It's yard
say six cents, and she says she can get
better in Springfield for five cents, and
shc looks at me suspiciously. as II II were
a cheating youth. She wants to know il
lit1l wash. and she looks at me Indignantly
as il ] were ssucy youth. Then sl'e asked
me II We take eggs, and say We do, and
we pay 2s cents. and she says they are
paying 80 at the other store; and of she
goes, and I put up the prints and am
down at the further end Of the room turn
ing fragments out Of cracker barrel
when back she comes and wants some sam
Piles.
We keep the post office. and by the time
| get back to my cracker barrel. in comes
man who wants to know il he hasn't q
letter. He never had letter in his life,
aud be knows it, and know it; but it is
one OF those facts that both parties ignore,
and go back and look, and give him the
consoling assurance that he hasn't any,
and he departs in peace VI mind.
Then there is a lady who wants to
match confounded bit of silk braid, bor-
dering on lilac. 1t takes me five minutes
10 find one box OF silk braids, and five
more TO find we haven't drab bordering on
the lilac Then she wants sewing silk the
same shade, and l hunt through all the
sewing silks, and there's drab bordering
on everything under the sun except lilac;
but knew by the way her founces swept
out that mercantile house not keeping
drab bordering on lilac stands very low.
get down to the further end Of the
store again. and there comes man to tho
front door. and yells out loud enough for
every customer to hear that he's brought
back that barrel Of -four; says the bread
was black and oil dough in the middle.
Now that man understood when he took
-four that it was inferior quality, not rec
commended. and he had it cheap. l help
him roll the -four in, and l can see that he
thinks no has circumvented villain.
That's the way it goes day after day,
week after week, and hate tea. detest sal
aratus, abhor Goldfish, and wish calico, cot
ton cloth, drilling, hooks and eyes, and
oil OF the rest OF the wretched necessities
OF an artificial civilization, were ct the bot.
tom OF the Indian ocean. long to be .
savage more than / do to he an angel, and
I shall be, one Of these days, though / do
wear cloth suits, and have shaving mug
at the BARRIERS marked in gilt letters. s.
o. Haynes. wonder that all self respect
and sentiment OF humanity isn't long ago
psrished from out my bosom.
Such were my reflections one fine morn
ing Just after train time, while was weigh
ing out one e-half pound Of black tea. when
my fellow sufferer in the dry goods, and
grocery infections called out:
Here is lady inquiring for you, Sam.
In distinct outline before the door stood
> little woman, her skirts spread out by
triangular hoop like the skirts OF the fig
ures we used to draw on our states at
school came mp to make my bow, and
saw that she had deposited brown willow
basket on the show case, and dropped
black glazed bag at her side. She wore a
,tingy kind of shawl, with fearfully long
ringe, and seemed to be afflicted with
iumb palsy.
Are you my nephew Sam'w asked
Ihe.
Ny name is Samuel Haynes, ma'am.
I'm your fathers aunt, Lousezer Hay
les.
I'm glad 70 see you, aunt Louisa.
She looked at me sharply. IS il was
making fun Of her. ! suppose it is be.
auss the corners Of my mouth turn up,
'cople are always suspecting mo Of max
ng fun Of them. I wish those corners
rould sink, and wonder they don't.
I'm your only living female relative on
our fathers side. said she. l.
MY business experience with females
ad been 30 embitteriugI was glad she
las the only one on the fathers side.
As you've no mother, ] feel il my duty
o help make home for you.
Instantly I remembered that Aunt Lou
- was worth seventy.fve thousand.
hink l learned that fact in early years at
he paternsl knee. along with who made
ac. and what state lived in. Iknov it
ivsys stood TO my iniantils CONSEQUENCES
n the relation Of aprinary truth Ny
ather all his life oourtsd poverty through
be medium Of dry goods and groceries.
nd went through bankruptcy ss the Law ,
sould ALLOW. During these periodic sea-