, 1888-04-12
THE LADY'S MAIDS STORY

Birch-Miss Grigg that was before she
married Mr.. Birch. I knew all about
that affair 1t was very singular indeed
very. I'm not sure that | ought to
mention 1t, for IL n lady's maid can't hold
Ter tongue she cunt uud good places.
Dear me, I'm no talkcr. I'm MS mum as
II mouse Bushels of pearl powder and
quarts of rouge have ] applied with my
own hands, and never SO much as hinted
ut. As for cotton, bless your heart I've
never hrcathed about it, and / did live
with u lady once that took arsenic regu-
larly for her complexion That's no
secret, for she took too much one day, by
accident, aud died
"Thcrc was an inquest and it all came
out. les well ii did, tor suspicion pointed
to her husband. Somehow, it. always
seems to strike q jury that II husband is
the llEeliCst person tu wish n wife out Of
the way, But this isn't anything about
punt Miss Gr'g, being ON the stage,
made no secret OF that. She played queens
und such, miss. I've often had tickets
given nc and gone with my young man
TO see her act. And whcn she was naughty
md CurlCd TIER uosc Ike, miss and looked
ut other fol,iS over her shoulder, and
talked away down in her throat Ei.n
pigeon gurgling, she was splendid, miss.
1t made mo think how nice 1t would be 10
hc n queen aud to take airs over every.
body
even, Miss Gricg was engaged to be
rarriod. Mr., Birch had fallen i'm love
with her whcI she WIS playing Hamlet's
ma Perhaps you have seen the play,
miss? Tie young man objects to his ma
getting married the second time, so |
seemed to make out, md acted most i'm.
pertinent, giving sass to his ma aud his
step-pa, and carrying on awful. And
there was n poor young lady quite ont of
her mind that afterwurd got drowned.
"Well, she was playing Ilnmlet's ma,
nni Mr.. birch fol- IN love with her and
sent her a letter, and called and made nm
offer, all in no time. She accepted him,
Of course, and the preparations for the
wedding began. don't think any lady
ever had so many dresses before. Silks
and satins, and vclvcts and laces. Dear,
dear; Nine. IS whole establishment
was hard ut work for II month, and If I'd
had TWEEN fingers, instead of only ten,
I'd have hud use for them all,
"At last everything vas finished. The
trunks were packed, fifteen Of 'em, miss,
and fourteen were to go on that afternoon,
and one--thc one with the wedding and
travelling dresses-was, of course, to be
left and so with the bride when She started
next day, She was to be married at 10
O'Clock in church and then drive home,
have splendid breakfast, change her
uress ana catch tno cue ,ruih. vi
careful, but just when was needed most,
just as the trunks were going down stairs,
Miss Grigg called me.
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