The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1882-08-03

For several days we fooled her
She thought pa had store down
town, and was going to school
And 1 told lots of fibs about being
detained at school, going about
town, and all sorts of stories to ac-
count for my being home late.
One day who should 1 see coming
into the store but ma!
''Have you any pearl shirt but
tons, little girl?'' said ma.
eyes ma'am,' said l looking hel
square in the face.
Goodness gracious!' said ma.
''is that you, Vevie?"
L said: "Beg pardon, ma am, what
did you want?' And then ma looked
at me again.
1 had q store apron on, and q
small cap like a French girl, and
because L wasn't very high, pa
bought me a pair of wooden bro
gans, with felt on the bottoms, into
which slipped my feet, and they
made me four or five inches taller.
And ma stared at me, and then
laughed and said:
ooh! 1 beg your pardon, little
girl. You look so much like my
daughter, Genevieve, l thought it
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
around the block and get home be-
fore your mother"
did, and when L got home she
was the most surprisedest 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 splendid, noble fellow, and
just as good as gold, and that she
never was as proud Of him in all her
life" and fell to kissing him and
crying and taking on. 1 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 soon she got over all that, and
began to make bonnets, and we had
milliner store; and then she in
sisted upon saving the expense of a
sep paratc house, and we moved into
larger store next door, with nice
show-window for bonnets, and little
Maudie is beginning to be handy
about, and all of us work, and we
are just as happy as the day is long
and have lots of money:
| never seen Mr.. Flood but once
since, when 1 went down to bank
unbeknOwn to pa, and 1 told Mr.
Flood and Mr.. Obrien and Mr.
M'Lane that any time they wished
to borrow a thousand dollars ''Jones
& Co." would lend it to them; anc
they laughed, and said ''they coulC
not 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
had, he didn't think he'd get busted
in long time"
And then 1 saw the clerk thai
laughed at me, and smiled at hin
and bowed, and since then he has
been buying all his gloves at the
store. L told him thought he useC
a great many pairs of gloves, and ht
said they wore out very fast count
ing the money. He is dreadfully
particular about his gloves, and il
there is nobody in the store but me
he is sometimes half an hour pick
ing out just the kind he wants.
Pa has bought a splendid golC
watch-a real stem m-winder-and W.
Jones d5 Co.-havc bought a nic'
large lot out on Governor Stanford
new cable railroad, and paid for it
and if times are good this summer
as pa thinks they will be, we shall
have n house of our own again
where we shall live in peace, die il
Greece, and be buried in n cake o
tallOw.