The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1886-10-25
ToNv's CLOTHES.

looking pair Oh Sudu sAO"ScAS'
have to put on your Sunday suit for
every dag now. Tony"
sYes'm," answered Tony.
"And don't you slide down any more
trees with rough bark.
"No'm," replied Tony.
Sand you'd better 60 down to Sarah
Jane Green's and see when she can
come and make your new suit"
s.Yes'm." said Tony. s.Pll go now,
fore get my clothes dirty"
The only difference between Tony's
Sunday suit and his everyday suit ray
in the fact of the former being IN good
order.
His suits were always made by one
pattern, owned by Sarah Jane Green.
Tony grew 50 fast that Sarah Jane al
WAYS had to cut her pattern larger, and
sometimes she forgot to enlarge every
thing. so that the suit had curious
look, which, however never troubled
Tony at all.
The trousers were sure to be baggy,
and the Jacket rather short in the back.
| with sleeves so long-''to grow in.
grandmother said-that they were still
too long whep worn out.
| When the everyday suit was past all
mending, he took the Sunday one for
every day, and had new one for sun
day. g..
Jane. when Tony reached her house;
ssbut I've sprained my wrist, and don't
know when can come"
Tony looked dismaved.
1.-The picnic's to be in two weeks, "
be said. -,
| ..Oh, I'm pretty sure to be well oy
that time. I'll keep it in mind, and
you'll be pretty sure to see me.
Tony lived on sheep-ranch with his
| father and his grandfather. and one or
two hired men. Until about . year
apo. it had been twenty miles to post
Office. and neighbors had been 30 scarce
that weeks would sometimes pass with
out their seeing one.
miles of them, and q little bit of . vii
lage was springing up at the statlon'
so that Tony and his friends feit al
most like city folks, they sometimes
declared.
The picnic Tony spoke of was fol
the Sunday-school at the station, which
Tony attended, thinking nothing Of
four-mile walk.
He had never heard Of one before
but grandmother knew all about pic
mes. and talked great deal concern
ING them, leaving his mind in an ex
cited state looking forward to wonder
and delights to come, in which rail
road ride and plenty Of good things T.
cat stood out from all the rest
A week passed. and Sarah Jane di'
not come. Tony TOOK to giving pee
!: at the brown cloth, which lay read
;. for his suit, and then climbing to tn
ton Of the tallest hitching-post outsid
D the door. to watch anxiously for he
!. stout figure and jolly, round face.
: One day he saw wagon In the IA
; distance, and his heart gave q gres
bound, for there certainly was woma
4 in IL But. as it drew near, his 10
= turned to curiosity. The face an
4 form Of the stranger. were not bit lib
!. those of Sarah Jane. But who coul
it beP
10 rs this Tonyr' she asked.
20 s.Yes'm," said Tony.
IF 81 am your Aunt Eleanor" 81
of said. II have come long way to D
- Aunt Eleanor was his mothers 81
al ter. Tony found it 50 pleasant to
a near her. that he spent several hou
w in the house, almost forgetting his su
no She told him all about her boys. Al
t6 asked all about what he had learne
~ seeming surprised to hear that he b.
" read the /. Pilgrims Progress"
DIP Life of Washington" and hall
he "Jay's Lectures" which were the OF
of books on the ranch.
Z" but don't Ike Jays Lectur
> very well,'' he admitted to her.
which she laughed, and told him to
"a - Then Tony climbed on the post ag'
-, and watched so long and anxiously
81 Sarah Jane that Aunt Eleanor camc
.n and asked him about II. And Ic
~, 10 found courage to tell her all his fe
~" about his new suit
The days wen. by, and still no Sal
o. Jane. Tony took again the long W
s s TO see her. and learned that she
zone over to her sisters, long '
Iou Of. but had left word that she wo
come to Tony's grandmother's the
~ day that she was able to sew.
' Tony's heart sank lower every q
can but he remembered that Sarah j
ma could do wonders in the way OF hi
req with her needle, and 80 did not q
lns despair:
nv. But the day before the picnic ca
oles and grandmother began baking
sorts Of nice things. Tony took q
Few look at the brown cloth, and then '
n in 70 her with swelling heart.
And ssYou couldn't do any thing with
ter old clothes, could you, grandmoth.
or he said, turning round and round
nine fore her.
Geo. There were woeful spots on
jacket, but the holes IN the sleeves