The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1890-07-05
HOW HE W ENTSHOPPING

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church with her, and she used TO be
fixy.
But she did it ali for the best-there
couldn't be 4 doubt Of that-and |
thought / d just show her. So when
the potatoes were sold and other
things, and I'd had my chop and my
cup CT tea, | Just walked along up
downward, looking into the windows,
and pretty soon came to mliiner's
shop. There was fat Jewish Lady
sitting at the door, and when | came
Up she nodded and smiled jrst as SO
clable as if she'd known me from a
baby, and says she
doesn't the gentleman want to walk
in and look at some nice bonnets-
beautiful bonnets-inside? The latest
style from PaiiS. And it does not cost
anything at all. It's as cheap sitting
down at the counter as standing up
ou'siIe."
CHATS very true, ma'am," says |,
and in | walked, and down | sat on a
stool she gave me, and out OF the cases
she began to take all sorts OF bonnets
'ls it for your own good lady7" says
she, cor is i, fer daughter, or may be
it is for a little miss? If know l can
make selection. All the latest styles,
but it's matter of taste, bonnet is
a matter Of tas entirely"
"kight you are lh~re, m4'am, Essays
|. "Now, my tast. Is gay and my wife
has been putting herself INTO Qoaker
colofs lately, and lItlIe bit of hight
aess is what I'm looking for.
50 out with your prettiest, ma'am, and
il I'm pleased I'll pay for it."
| See-l see, says the Jewish lady.
III set you down the handsomest bon
net in the store. In Iced, there's
nothing like it in all the B owery, there
is not, and up the ladder she went, me
holding 1t, and down she came with a
bandDoX and opened it, ald there was.
a bonnet.
1t was good big bonn It, to begin
aIiI', and like lenty for my money,
and It was as pretty PEA green as
ever mortal eve looked upou-satin,
and all rufl-d up and gathered about
so you couldn't think how it was done,
unless it was by magic. And right on
the side of 1t was red bird as big as
my hand, with a long tail rising Up
| broad and stylish over the crown, and
his claws seeming to hold tight 10 a
| bunch of cherries as natural as if they'd
been picked off the tree, and big yell
low glass eye in his head, and the
strings were green velvet on one sldh
and red satin on the other, and "a
broad as my hand. There was t.
bonnet! II
All says |, bringing my breath q
as a man does when he feels relie'
All you've hit it now, ma'an. I "
IS tasty bonnet, and puts me in q IL
OF old times. That pleases me,la II
may | ask the price7" u
It's lovely bonnet, said the lsh b
lady, and when you'd see il o cur a
lady it viii be lovelier, for it's a1net fe
thst would give dignity to aiady' So
and elegance and beauty, arSheap "
it is at twelve dollars, my desenle- in
man, and only that it is SO laln the A
season it would be fifteen t you'd W
have box for it and avoiCliins 1t &C
or CRUSHING it or that, why. @nty-Hve ht
cents would cover the exp.
The box, by all meaas,i !, SO in pl
minute more 1 had 1t b,oop, and tn
had paid my twelve CS ana trl
q1arlci for it, md was v1g up the hs
Bowery thinking how 'arlne Ann &C
would feel when she sa'at bonnet, ii
and as Id put away money IN re
my brown pocketbook "AouSht IA nc
he liberal for once buy her a to
mantilla, too, and theaS o''e hans ~
ino ont at = door. au>aded velvet, it
blue, with ball frinId only seven tel
dollars to close uphSS' Ana a
went and bought it. they put that
in box. toe. Ann ! S''f'ed ior he
the depot and car we
was very tonTta'hei'he Ann,
and it had been " Inc that she up
sborld dress SOY, and perhaps
think I'd got ME got older, and thi
il WAS rich abcur wedding day, COZ
and 7 wanted tC her good time.
didn't thinu' ihuch else un- nlr
I'll cot to our: and pushed open
the door Tea eadY, and Cathrlne ing
Ann ,,.oe .,,,i ore the stove. wa.
The girl 'hS' says she. Sic tina
sovs i,,s too here. Her m other mig
was m at :. k, and she's packing my
,o an =, n ing train. tills
lust like 'dfS l. but hght up, san
Ca,hrine we got something |
van, IN sbu. I've been noticing feel
,h,t Won i treated yourself well But
obou, o.tely, so We been shop rob
ping Tor ere;
Wbx rd, says she; l thought me.
- vor,d I'D been jlst a little ex- the
ravaga NeN
Notays |. You thought | was ono
oe,,i,f and wanted you to make hav
i,cke, of my old overcoa,s or Il
some Now, see here, this is her
what, you to wear, and when {"
tbeve more like'em, and out I the
vhiIy bonnet aud my mantilla We
anfsm up on each fist. Well, hon,
w Cathrine Am act as she Va,1
ii, day in my life. First she N
ST til thought her eyes would ,
hr MAUI i"e" BIC gave thou
lriek, then she laughed, then WV