The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-08-19

to tell her. For several days we
fooled her. She thought pa had
store down town, and 1 was going
to school. l told lots of fibs about
being detained at school, going down
town, and all sorts of stories to ac-
count for being home late. One day
who should 1 see coming into the
store but ma.
"Have you any pearl shirt buttons,
little girl ?" said ma.
"Yes, ma'am," said I, looking her
right square in the eye.
Goodness. gracious :" said ma. SIS
that you, Vevie ?"
l said, beg pardon, ma'am, what
did you want?" And then ma look
ed at me again.
had store apron on and a small
cap like French girl and because I
fswasR't very high pa bought~me a
pair of wooden brogans, with felt
buttons, into which [ slipped my
feet, and they made me four or five
inches taller; and ma stared at Iue,
and then laughed and said:
"Oh, l beg your pardon, little girl
you look so much like my daughter
GenevieYe that l thought you were
her."
Then heard pa snicker down be-
hind tie counter. He had seen ma
come in and he hid. Just as soon as
ma went out pa jumped up and said
"Snatch off your apron and cap,
We've, and run round the block and
get home before your mother"
[ did so, and when ma got home
she was the most surprised person
you eyer saw. We knew this thing
wouldn't last, and so that night we
told ma all about the house of Jones
q Co.." and ma kissed pa and said
he was noble fellow, and "just as
good as gold" and that she "never
was so proud of him in all her life,"
and fell to kissing him and crying
and taking on. ! never saw ma act
so 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,
especially when some lady came in
she had known at the Lick house,
but she soon got over all that and
began to make bonnets and We had a
millinery store, and then she insisted
upon saving the expense OF separate
house, and we moved into larger
store next door with nice rooms fixed
to live in and a nice show window
for bonnets and little Maudie is be-
ginning to be handy about, and all
of us work, and we are just as happy
) as the days are long and have lots o.
money.
[ have never seen Mr.. Flood but
once since, when / went down to the
, bank unbeknown to pa, and tod Mr.
Flood and Mr.. McLane that anytime
they wanted to borrow 81 900 "Jones
: & Co." would lend it to them; anC
they laughed and said, "Couldn't tell
stocks might go down." And ther
Mr.. Flood said, "it all the people hi
} had given and loaned money t.
would pay it back as 1 had. he didn'
think he would get busted in Ions
e time"
And then I saw the clerk tina
laughed at me and | smiled at hin
: and bowed and since then he ha
been buying all his gloves at tn
stole. / told him thought he uset
3 a great many pairs Of gloves, and h
said they wore out very fast countin!
money. He is dreadful particula
about his gloves, and if there is no
body in the store but me, he is some
s .,mes half an hour picking out JUS
the kind he wants.
~ Pa has bought a splendid gol
y watch-a real stem-Winder and w
=, Jones g. Co.-haye bought mic
-. large lot on Governor Stanford's nev
= cable railroad and paid for it; and
the times are good this summer, a
=, pa thinks they will be, we shall hay
- - house of our own again.
" His Ma got Home.
er "When is your ma coming back :?
< asked the grocery man of the ba