The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-09-22

what was that to sowing their iiarers
Of for a bare ijving?n lietty sal. and
toll was sweeten4l now by gFa Iullly
increasing profit AT the end OF the first
six months, they Ia not olly ''live and
kept together bat had u little sum laid
by, which, rs Aunt Polly advised, was
treated as cuisines capital. part
OF it being invested in the purchase of
an awning for the window. and an extra
stove to Increase their baking capacity.
Very rarely were there any stale things
left now to be sold next day n half-price
the regular orders an chance custom
consuming all
1--WE shall have to hire boy 20 carry
things round, actually believe, declared
IIetty Mrs Malcomb an Mrs. Sayres
both said that they would order our
bread regularly, if we could send it
home
I've been expecting that would be
the next step remarked Aunt Polly,
..and | guess Eve got just the boy You
want in my eve. It's Widow McCullen's
lad-Sandy. rs they call him. He's a
good little chap. and it'll be real help
10 his mother to have him earning a
trihe.'
90 ottnuS AlcCutieh was Ic9 dttttiN eu-
gagged Is "bread boy, and business
grew brisker still.
Aunt Polly, we've got to another
notch" said Hetty, at the end of the first
year You don't happen TO know of a
girl. do you. who could help us in the
baking? Della and | can't keep up with
the orders. She gets so tired every now
and then that she can't sleep. and that
worries me so that lie awake, too
- That'll never answer; no, l don t
| know of any girl. but there nice kind
/ of au oldish woman. il she'll do. that L d
| like to recommend. Yes-I mean my
self''-she went on, chuekling Mt Hetty' s
amazed look. Its come to me more
than once lately that it q be kind of good
and restful TO make change, and not
60 on tailorin' forever all the rest of my
| DAYS l used TO be a master hand at
/ bread and pie-crust, too, when | was
your age, and I've little saved up which
can 60 with the business. if it's needed;
\ and, if you girls say We'll make kind
of family firm of the thing. How does
! it strike you?'
j o, Aunt Polly, the very thing, only
it seems too good to be true. Do you
really mean it? We did so hate the idea
of raw girl. to whom we should have to
l
half she made for the first month, and
Tvefought it olfas long as l could why,
it will be like having grandmother come
back to have YOU living with us. There
the west room all ready, Dear me! How
delightful things seem to turn out for US
aiwaysr'
/ = That wasn't your view always, it
seems to me, rejoined Aunt Polly. "A
year ago You was pretty down in the
mouth. il don mistake. Gingerbread
is good for something. you see"
. The Old Time Bakery still goes on
in Farewell Street, but it has grown far be-
! yond its original proportions. If you We're
to visit it to-day you would find room
double the size of the former, and which
has been made by taking down a parti-
tioa wall between the sitting room and a
spare bedroom. and throwing them into
one. There are two windows on the
street now; one full of bread, biscuits and
buns. the other stored with Hetty's now
favorite gingerbread. and with delicious
looking pumpkin pies and apple tarts,
with old-fashioned flalSy crust. which are
Aunt Polly's speciality, and have added
4 greatly to the reputation of the establish
ment.
Still it is not shop. Hetty, with wary
good taste, mas ScrupulOuSlY preserved
the QUAINT look, which first gave char
acter to the little enterprise, and by ju-
dicious rummaging in neighbors' gar
rets has acquired sundry old time chairs,
bottles. jugs and platters, which help in
the effect. Everything is scrupulously
clean and bright, as all things must be
where Aunt Polly supervises, but the
brightest things in the room are the faces
of the twin sisters. They have tested
and proved their powers; they know
now what they can do, and they taste the
happiness of success.
| tell their little story, in which IS
nothing remarkable, or out of the way
/ for the sake of other girls. who, per
haps. are sitting to-day with folded
hands. and pulling and wondering, just
as Hetty and Della did, over what they
are to do and how to set about it. / do
not mean at all that these girls should
all make gingerbread- that indeed would
be ''overstocking the market" as Aunt
Polly would say, but only that they should
harken to her word of wisdom, ''find out
what they can do BEST. and do that
whatever it is. Secure that good work,
and hearty striving will win some meas
ure of success soon or late, even if its
/ beginnings are small and Insignificant as
a gingerbread loafor batch of biscuitl
Susan Coolidge, IN Congregdti0HGlist.