The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1884-04-03

waited for the noon train. Talking
about crocheting, that minds ME Miss
Anglesea was upwards of nine months
making one tidy that anybody else
could make in week, or two at most.
She intended it for present for her
sister-in-law, for Christmas She be-
gan it on Thanksgiving Day, and her
sister-in-law wouldn't have got it the
next Christmas if some of us hadn't
helped her. O, the slowness of some
| people, how it tries me!a Mrs. Ap-
| pleby tapped the floor with her right
foot, rocked herself and shook her
head gently as though she was contem-
| plating an audience of slowgers, and pre-
pared to go any length within the limits
of gentle expostulation.
| '.She staid for lunch and hurried
away to catch the noon train, and
missed that. When she came back the
second time she was in a very bad hui
| NOR 1t gave her headache and she
laid down, and if it hadn't been for
our Bessie-I sent her with her don't
think she would have caught the four
o'clock train
Here Mrs. Appleby burst into peal
of laughter that was infectious. We
all laughed. Mrs Appleby makes
everybody laugh.
"Where was I thenp @, yes! I was
talking about getting ready in time.
After the dresses were made-before
they were completed thought would
try to understand what the music was
about. A person feels $3.50 queer
when they are asked something they
know nothing about thateverybody else
knews all about. / don't know any
thing about music, and don't really
enjoy the fashionable music. but one
must keep up with the procession, as
/ Josiah says. So / bought all the num-
| bers and had them pretty well studied
up, so could talk about them.
! My niece, Mrs. Allgoose, and her
husband, came to town to attend the
Festival, and of course they couldn' t
get seats in good place then for love
or money. They had to stay with us
/ two nights, and when understood how
scarce good places were / thought I
would save Josiah some of the extra
money he was out buying our tickets.
| 'Now's your chance to save ten dol
lars. said I. We only want the last
two nights. and it viii be a great ac-
I. commodation to Mr.. Allgoose, and we
will have the credit of doing a good
turn in . pinch.
/ "Yes,' says he, 'and suppose any
thing should happen that we can't go,
after being at all this outlay There 1
the butt end of three hundred dollars
gone. and nothing to show for t,sto say
nothing of the worry and time lost. y
! "aBut, said. Josiah it's sure to be
all right So he sold Mr.. Allgoose the
tickets for the first night that is. he
had to give him all the tickets. You
see they had coupons, and were worth.
less il detached And my niece and
her husband went and they enjoyed il
above everything they said. The next
night Josiah and me got ready early
! was determined wouldn't be late
Josiah he argued we would make time
by waiting half an hour-said he knew
all about the crushes I overruleC
him, and all the children saw us off
every one wishing they could go with
us. But as there were two more places
for the last night for Bessie and Jim
we had as many as our neighbors
When we were half way to the hall 10
siah turned to me and said:
g By the by, Eliza, give me those
tickets. / had almost forgotten them
There will be such crush that every
body will have to show their tickets a
soon as they reach the inside door
."s1he tickets, says /, II have n,
tickets. / never saw the tickets
, "'What!' says Josiah You do no
mean to tell me your niece's husban'
did not give-retufp those tickets t
you?'
II do mean it, I said. 4 had moth
ing to do with the tickets. Y0ae CAV
them to Mr., Allgoose. You shout
! have got them back from him. It ism
possible you did not get the ticket
,, from him.
ssJosiah felt in his pockets, and ther
I sat-you don't know hoao nervous
Look carefully, Josiah, / said.
sssWell, he said, after a little while
} sitting up in the carriage and rum
: maging all over himself That beat
ALI Beats The oldest 7,aaqsi Those tick
+ cts are out at Omaha by this time
ssAnd so they were, for my niece an
! her husband started West the day afte
! they attended the Festival, and as "
could not get seats then, Josiah tol
: our driver to turn around, and "
! drove back home. And that was th
: way we went to the May Festival,
said Mrs. Appleby with laugh thu
was like q moan.-Dautd LoaUry ]
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