The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-07-30

Hetty and Della mad TO Work early ana
late to fill their orders; but what was that
"to sewing their fingers off for bare liv.
ing 2" Hetty said, and toll was sweetened
now by gradually increasing profit. At
the end of the first six months, they had,
not only "lived and kept together" but
had little sum laid by, which, as Aunt
Polly advised, was treated as business
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 at
half.price, the regular orders and chance
custom consuming all.
ave shall have to hire boy to carry
things round, actually believe" declared
Hetty. "Mrs. Malcomb and Mrs. Sayers
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 l
guess I've got just the boy you want in
my eye. It's Widow McCullen's lad
Sandy, as they call him. He's a good
little chap, and it'll be real help to his
mother to have him earning triAe"
So Sandy McCullen was regularly en-
gagged as 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
girl, do you, who could help US in the bak-
ing2 Della and 1 can't keep up with
the orders. She gets 80 tired every now
and then that she can't sleep, and that
worries me so that lie awake too"
"That'll never answer; no, don't
know of any girl, but there's nice kind
of an oldish woman, if she'll do, that I'd
like to recommend. Yes-I mean my
self she went on, chuckling at Hetty's
amazed look. sits come to me more
than once lately that it'd be kind of good
aud restful to make a change, and not go
ON tailorin' forever, all the rest of my
days. I used to be a master hand at
bread and pie-crust, too, when | was your
age, and Eve little saved up which can
go with the business, if it's needed; and,
if you girls say so, we'll make kind of
family firm of the thing. How does it
strike you ?"
"Oh, Aunt Polly, the very thing, only
it seems too good to be true. Do you
really mean it? We did 80 hate the idea
of raw girl, to whom we should have to
teach everything, and who would spoil
half she made for the first month, aud
I've fought.it off as long as l could; why,
it will be like having grandmother come
back to have you living with US. There's
the west room all ready. Dear me How
delightful things seem to turn out for us
always"
"That wasn't your view always, it
seems to me-" rejoined Aunt Polly. ga
year ago you was pretty down in the
mouth, if 1 don't mistake. Gingerbread
is good for something, you see."
"The Old Time Bakery" still goes on
in Farewell street, but it has grown far
beyond its original proportions. If you
we're to visit it to-day you would find a
room double the size of the former, and
which has been made by taking down a
partition wall between the sitting-room
and 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 fiaky crusts, which
are Aunt Polly's speciality, and have
added greatly to the reputation of the es
Enlistment.
Still it is not shop. Hetty, with wary
good taste, has scrupulously preserved
the "quaint look, which first gave charac
ter to the little enterprise, and by judi
cious rummaging in neighbors' garrets
has acquired sundry old.time chairs, bot
ties, jugs and platters, which help in the
effect. Everything is scrupulously clear
and bright, as all things must be wher,
Aunt Polly supervises, but the brightes
things in the room are the faces of thu
twin sisters. They have tested snt
proved their powers they know now
what they can do, and they taste the hap
piness of success.
tell their little story, in which is moth
ing remarkable, or out of the way, for tn
sake of other girls, who, perhaps, ar
sitting today with folded hands, and puz
zling and wondering, just as Hetty ant
Della did, over what they are to do ant
how to set about it. do not mean at al
that these girls should all make ginger
bread-that indeed would be overstock
ing the MARKET" as Aunt Polly would say
but only that they should harken to
word of wisdom, " find out what they cal
do best, and do that" whatever it is
Secure that good work, and hearty striv
ing will win some measure of success
soon or late, even if its beginnings ar
: small and Insignificant as gingerbread
loaf or batch of biscuit.-Susdn Cool
id0e, in COnoIe0dtiOndlta.