Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1885-08-15

the same one, but it Glways looked
old and rusty, and she never took
the least mite of pains, with bel
hair more'n to keep it all drawed,
neat and tight, into a knot at the
back other head, which was per
.tickerly unbecomin' to her, OWN
to her, having "a high forehead.-
She never wore any ornaments
but a gold breastpin with her faith
er's hair in it, and 4 little mite o.
a gold ring that had been hel
grandmothel's; and that had hairir
in. it, too. Suzetty King used tt
say she looked jest as if her beat
had been a sailor and got drowned
But she looked sadder'n even thar
that to me,like a girl that has miss
sedher chance Of the hopes and joss
that comes material to women il
the spring of their lives. Whether
she ever thought of what she wa
missin' or not, i can't say.
shouldn't wonderful she had mos
,.forgotsshe: Massan ything zbat--as mer
chine to smake life easier for Johr
and her mother.
"Well, John had got through col
lege, aud most through the law
school, too, and was goin' to gradu
ate that summer, aud $ It mp as
lawyer for himself. He'd got
pretty good openin' with q class
mate that had a lawyer for Il father
and Prudence must have felt un
common easy in her mind, for she
TOOK somebody's advice aud went
aud had Mis- Plympton make hi
a new summer bonnet. Mis- Piymp
ton had jest come here from the
city then, and some liked her bon
nets and some didn't; but old Miss
Greasy, who had made bonnets fol
forty years, was paralyzed, and
folks that couldn't make their owr
had to have Mis- Plympton's.
s.I'm certain twas as much as
four years since Prudence Halha
way had had a HOW bonnet. Tom
Streadley's mouth and eyes must
have opened even wider'n he com
monty kept in when Mis- Plymp
ton SAID to him, late one Saturday
night (she'd hired Tommy for ex
try help because her little GRAND
girl was all beat out), This green
blndbox goes to Miss Prudence
Hathaway, up by Three Corners
CAT the same time she gave him
brown handbook for Mandany
WheelOck, the squire's daughter
81 cannot stop to mark 'em, but
you can't make mistake, owin' tc
the difrunt colors, Now, remem
Der, which is which," says Mis-
Plympton.
sTommy promised that he would
and he always declared that he kept
sayin' goin' along, Green. Hatha
way; brown, Wheelock'; but if he
did be was like a hotel-bOy that
was readin' about in the paper, thai
wasSent with some boots to lore
that was stoppin' ib the hotel, a .lyl5
they cold him to say, MY lord, the
boy has brought your boots,' but
sayin' it over'n aud over to make
sure, he got mixed up, and says he
My boy, this lord has brought YOU
boots!' And Tommy Streadly by
the time he'd got to the Three Cor
ners was sayin', Brown, Hatha
wayp For he left the brown band
box to the Hathaways, and carried
the green one to Nandany Vince
lock!
"And when Prudence opened the
box instead ofthe sensible, middle
aged plain lace bonnet that she or
dered, there was a iaunty little
mite of q bonnet, to be sure, bu
tnat pink feather on the front
Twas IL black-lace bonuet, to b.
sure, but that pink feather made il
look so pert and coQuettish, i
hadn't no more sobriety'n a red
winged blackbird.
"Prudence looked at it kind OIL
scared at first, as if twas something
that would bite her. Then she tool
it out and held it at arms length
and looked it over.
"'What was the mllliner think
ing Off says she. 1t isn't a. mit'
like the shape I ordered! Ant
think of pink feather for me
mother"
ut don't look as if twas mean
for you, certain" SAID Miss Hatha
way.
"'I must have it changed!' sail
Prudence, decidedly; but as she pu
it back into the box she fetched
little sigh. Twas a master prett.
bonnet. Miss Plympton bad {
knack for maxim 'em; if there'
anything in this world that can b.
done we'll without a knack, it aim
bonnet maxim.
"Prudence put the bonnet bacl
into the bux; but that night she Car
ried the box upstairs with her, in
stead ofputting. it away in the sit
tim room closet, as she NATURAL,
would.
"And when she came down th,
next mornin', dressed for meetin'
as true as yon live, twas minute
or two before her own mother knew
her! She had her hair all crimpet
over her forehead-'twas pretty
light colored hair-and the llttl'
bit of bonnet with the pink feathe
atom oft! She had on black sill