Daily Yellowstone journal., 1889-10-02
HER LAST CARPET.

The clothes line, stretched from the
June apple tree TO the mulberry tree,
and on to the great oxhcart cherry
tree in Mrs. Gideon Hut, ; back yard,
had for several days hauUtcd strips of
bright green, orange yellow and dark
crimson cotton. newly dyed.
On Monday there appeared several
yards of pale blue. anC on Tuesday a
"trip Of bright red. When Mrs. HUFF
hung the last strip ON the line, she
stepped back with her bare. round,
red arms akimbo, nodded her pink
sunbonneted head b and fro III an APP.
proving manner, and said:
We'll. I'VE had good luck with
ey'ry single piece. II I'd make the
aniline dye a lectle mite darker, it'd
mebbe looked better along with the
green an weller IN the twisted stripe /
callate on having, but it'll look mighty
purify as It's. ] must git my logwood
an copperas ready for the rest of my
rags. an git EN- all ready for the rag
sswin' Friday, for they've got 10 go TO
the eaver a-Sattaday."
Mrs. Hutf's rag carpets had taken
the first premium AZ the county fair
every autumn for three years, and she
was iaying her plans again this year
10 capture the blue ribbon and the five
dollar prize. She had a way of get
sing up twisted stripes and coloring
and warping the chain That no one
could initiate. Her ueighbors often
said that they would rather have one
of Harriet Hufs striped rag carpets
than a two ply ingram. She made a
great point Of having her rags cut
very fine, and sometimes lay awake ut
night planning something G in the
tSay of ''hit-and-miss film"
SHE cuts up our duds fer carpet
t+ss fore we've half wore EN- out"
SAID Mr.. Gideon HUFF, a little irritably.
~'When a woman gifts 10 maxim rag
carpets a mans red flannins amt safe
a minute unless he puts EN- in the
bank in his own name, an my blue
oyeralls gin'rally go into a ball of
Z carpet rags fore I've wore en- a dozen
times"
The carpet Mrs. Huff was now max
ing was to eclipse all of her former
efforts. She had actually dreamed Of
something new in twisted stripes, aud
had risen in the middle of the night
% make fast and safe the Grcam-sent
idea By winding the colors in the right
order around a strip of pasteboard.
Then she went back to bed, saying to
herself;
Nov. If | could only dream of
something new in film"
But such a dream did not come.
Elth Nah she was agreat dreamer, and
Soul, maintained that she often
a'dTeamed out things. and that her
drosls came rue Being thus a firm
believer IN dreams, she occasionally
even invited dreams by overlooking
her stomach at night.
II | eat an ordinary light supper. 81
she salu. | don't dream much; but If
1 eat pickles and cheese and cake, aud
a lot ri stuff of hat kind. | dream a
sight, which was no doubt true.
She made a rag SEWN" that week
20 finish up her hit-and-miss rags, but
the rags forthat wonderful stripe were
all TO be Sewed with her own hands.
Eight or ten Of her neighbors came TO
the rag sewin,.' Each Of them
brought her needle and thimble. and
sewed carpet rags and laughed and
gossiped in the most agreeable way all
the afternoon. and in the evening
their husbands came To supper
Not even to these ladies did Mrs.
HUFF disclose the pattern Of her
',dreamed out" stripe. although she in.
formed them that they could conf
IDENTIFY expect TO see such a rag carpet
"A they'd never before seen. when the
fnir opened two weeks later.
Her household duties occupied her
time more than usual at that season
of the year, 80 that she could sew only
nj 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.
IL was after midnight on Friday
when the last ball was sewed and
wound and weighed and ready TO 20
10 The wenver's on the morrow.
.'The stripe can't be improved on ]
jest know, said Mrs Huff MS she put
the rags away Ia stoutgrain bags. and
lied them up. But ! can't decide
Just how 10 have the colurs in the
chain warped, or whether 10 have the
light and dark rags all mixed up or
ssp'rate in the hit an miss part. do
swonder il ! can't dream II out to-
-uighti I'm all tired out, and dream
best when I'm that way. Mebbe If !
sHt d big piece of g~ooseberry pie and a
pince Of cheese fore | go 10 bed, I'll
dream something uncommon.
81 read the other day OF a great poet
Who wrote half q poem, and couldn't
1nisb IL 10 suit him, and he went 10
bid and dreamed the OTHER half all