Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-11-01
HER LAST CARPET.

June applc-trcc TO the mulbcrry-ircc, and
On to the great oXhcart clIcrry-trcc in
Mrs. Gideon IEuifs back yard, had foI
several days Haunted strips of bright
green, orange yellow and dark crimson
cotton, newly dyed
On Monday there appeared several
yards OF pale blue, and on Tuesday Il
strip of bright red. When Mrs. HUI
hung the las! strip on the line. She
stepped back with her bare, round, red
arms akimbo, nodded her pink sunbon-
netcd head 10 and fro in IN approving
manner. and said
"Ne!l, I've had good Iuch with cv'ry
single piece. If I'd made the nn;linc DIV,
ieotic mite darker, it'd mcbbc looked
better along With The green an WELLER in
the twisted stripe calatc on having. but
it'll look mighty purity as lis. must
gil my iogwood an coppcra, ready for
tic rest Of my rags. an git en- all ready
for the rag-scwiii' Friday. for they We 90,
to go 10 the weaver -Salta,iay.''
Mrs ll"liS rag carpets had taken The
first premium At the county fair every
autumn Tor three years, and she was Law
ing her plans again this wear 20 capture
The blue ribbon and the iivc-tiolar prize.
She had way Of getting NJ, twisted
stripes, and coloring and varying line
Chain. that no one could initiate. Her
neigiibors often said that they would
rather have one Of Harriet llufls striped
rag carpets ti.in = two-rly ingram. She
made great point Of having her rags
cut very fine. and sometimes Inv awake nj
night planning something new in the
way Of ''hitan miss film"
''',hc cuts mp our duds Ter carpet rag,
fore we've hall worn 'rra oul, said Air.
Gideon Hun, II little irriiahly. "Whcn
n woman gifts to maxim rag carpets :.
mans red iiannins amt safe minute.
unless he puts 'cm in The bank in his
own name, an my blue oycralls gin rail:
go in;o a ball OF carpet rags fore I've
wore 'om dozen times
The carpet Mrs. Huff was now making
WAS TO eclipse al of her former efforts.
She had actually dreamed of something
new in twisted stripes, and had risen in
the middle OF The night TO make FAST and
safe Che drcam-svni idea 10y windng he.
colors in the right order around :. s.ri,.
Of pastcboar,l. Then she wcnt back to
bed. saying 10 herself:
Nov if / could only dream OF some
thing new in iiilin!'
But such dream did not come. al
though She was great dreamer, and
stoutly maintained that she often
"dreamcd out thing-," and that her
dreams came true. Being iiiu>a iirin be-
lievcr in dreams. she occasionally even
invited dreams by overlooking hcr stom-
nch III night
If eat an ordinary light supper, e
she said, 81 don't dream much but if |
cat pickles and cheese nmc; cake. and Il lot
Of stuff OF that kind, dream sirht, =
which WAS 10 doubt trIc
She "na,lc rag-sewin'" that week
TO finish up her hii-and,,niss rags, bu,
tho rags for that wonderful stripe were
all 20 be Sewcd with her own hands.
Eight or ten Of her ncighbors came 10
the ''rag-scwiE'." Each OF them brought
her needle and thimhlc, and scwcd car
pet rags and laughed and gossiped in the
most agreeable way ail the afternoon, and
in the evening their husbands came to
supper.
Not even 10 these ladies did Mrs. Huff
disclose the pattern OF her "dreamed-
OUT stripe, although She informed them
that they could confidently expect TO sec
such rag carpet as they'd never before
seen, when the fair opened two week,
later.
Her household duties occupied her tint
more than usual at that season of til,
year, so that she could sew only at night
and each night she sat up until very lat,
sewing OH the green and crimson an,
yellow and blue and black and white rag!
for the stripe in her carpet.
1t was after midnight on Friday whc,
the last bail WAS sewcd and wound IN,
weighed, and ready TO 20 to the weaver
on the morrow
"The stripe can't be improved on l les
know, said Mrs. Huff,as she put the rag
away in stout grain bags, and tied then
up. "But can't decide just how Il
have the coio"s in the chain warped. O
whether to have the light and dark rag
all mixed up, Or separate in the hit.an'
miss. do wonder if ! can't dream it on
tonight! I'm MI tired out, and | dream
best when I'm that way. Mcbbc if On
big piece of gooscberry pie and pcc
OF cheese fore 90 TO bed, I'll dream
something uncommon. read the ot:,c
day OF great poet who wrote half
poem, and couldn't finish it to suit him
and he went to bed and dreamed the othc
half all out plain as day, and got up i
his nightgown and finished up. I'm sur
IL person could dream out a fine noem
ia ought TO be able 10 dream out a com
mon rag carpet pattern"
mus reasoning to herself, Mrs. Hui
ate her pie and cheese and went to bed
and being very tired, soon droppe,
asleep.
She was sleeping heavily when her hus
oana called her in the morning. He
first words when she arose were:
"Well, it didn't do any good,