Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1889-10-05

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time more than usual at that season OF
the year. SO that she could sew only at
night, and each night she sat up until
very late sewing on the green and
crimson and yellow and blue and black
and white rags for the stripe in her
carpet.
1t was after midnight on Friday
when the last ball was sewed and
wound and weighed, and ready to go
to the weaver's on the morrow.
THE stripe can't be improved on l
jest knos0," said Mrs. Huff. as she put
the rags away in stout grain bags. and
tied them up. "But l can't decide just
how to have the colors in the chain
warped, or whether to have the light
and dark rags all mixed up. or separate
in the hit an'-miss part / do wonder
II can't dream it out tonight I'm
all tired out, and / dream best when
I'm that way. Mebbe If 1 eat a big
piece of gooseberry pie and a piece Of
cheese fore l go to bed, I'll dream
something uncommon.
II read the other day OF great poet
who wrote half poem, and couldn't
finish it to suit him, and he went to
bed and dreamed the other half all
out plain as day, and got up in his
wight gown and finished up. Pm sure
if a person could dream out a fine
poem, I'd ought to be able to dream
out a common rag carpet pattern"
Thus reasoning to herself, Mrs Huff
ate her pie and cheese and went to
bed, and, being very tired, soon
dropped asleep.
She was sleeping heavily when her
husband called her in the morning.
Her first words when she arose were
well, it didn't do any good.
didn't dream any thing about that
carpet, although did dream of forty
other things. l must hurry up my
work, and have Gideon take me and
the rags over to the Widow Watts
and see myself that she understands
just how that carpets got to be wove. "
But when, two hours later, she went
into her little sewing-room to get her
rags and chain, they were not to be
found.
Gideon" she called to her husband,
who was putting the horses to the
light wagon in the barn-yard, "have
you carried them rags out to the
wagonP"
NO" called back Mr. Huff; Il amt
seen your old rags. I'll be glad when
1 have seen the last of 'em, and you've
done a-settin' up O. nights a-puddlin'
over 'em, and undermine your con-
stitution and your health"
"Well, they amt here" said Mrs.
Huff, land left them here last night,
all ready to be carried out. Hammer,
We you seen them ragsP"
No." replied Hannah, the hired
GIRL Il amt seen a solitary thing OF
'em."
That's queer" said Mrs. Huff, irri
tably. They never TUX legs and
walked off of their own accord. Sam,
don't s'pose you've seen any thing Of
my ragsP"
Sam, the Farmland, happened tC
pass the open window at that moment
"Your rags, Mis- Huff What ragsP'
"Why, my carpet rags"
Didn't know you had any," replied
Sam. briefly, as he went unconcerned
ly on his way.
Then began an active search for the
rags. Mr.. Huff was called in, and SC
singular was the disappearance of suct
bulky articles that he joined in the
search with considerable interest.
'It's the queerest thingp' said Mrs
Huff, for the fifteenth time, as she
looked into places in which the bag,
of rags could not possibly be. 'Itl
my opinion" she said at last, "tha
somebody has stolen those rags They
never got away alone; any one will
common sense knows that.
No trace of a thief could be found
but one could easily have come ant
gone without the family knowing it, a
the doors and windows were seldom
fastened. In fact some of them hat
been left wide open the night before t.
admit the cool air at the close OF no
day.
After an hour of unaVlling searcl
Mrs. HUFF dropped YEARLY into a chair
and said, in a choking voice: "Well
they're gone, and gone for good, an,
SOS my chance of getting the prize a
the fair next week. Somebody mus
have stole EN-. l reckon now tina
Calisty Horn will get the premium witt
her carpet"
well, well, what if she does?" sail
Mr.. Huff, consolingly. You've ha,
it three years hand runnin' and YOU
ought to give somebody else a chance
anyhow"
They all have just as good chance
as I've had, replied Mrs Huff. "AnC
the premium amt nothing at all com
pared to the loss of that carpet that
: had callated sure on putting down i
: the settin'-room this fall"
The rags were not found in the day
that interviewed before the fair, an
Mrs. Calisty Horns carpet aid get tn
first premium.
And such a looking carpet as
: was" said Mrs Huff, somewhat spite
D fully. THE rags was half an inc
wide, and she'd goi too much coppera
in her coloring, aud the stripe wa
nothing to compare 10 what mine woul
= have BEEN"