The Lamar register., 1891-09-05

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1.-The next year the roses come
blue again, an every one come more'i
ever. to look, an groeers an people
with carts they come from far an
near, Tor they said it was n novelty.
TBut mother she was rather quiet
like, an she didn't say much about
the roses; an one day when she an
me was maxim up the bread-just our
two selves, in the back kitchen-she
says to me:
"'Addie, she says-my names Ade-
laide-about them blue roses now. If
it wasn't that don't like to think o.
a child O. mine bein up to such tricks,
should say as you or Hetty had
been borrowed o. my bluebag.
Your blue bag, mother, says I.
Hard work / had to keep my face,
for Hetty she was maxim faces at
me through the winder.
Yes, my blue bag mother says,
lookin' at me straight.
"'Why, aunt says Hetty through
the window, If it was the blue bag,
how would all these roses be the same?
An wouldn't it all wash off in the
rain2 An you know it's always
brighter after shower she says,
Besides, would we do such a silly
thing Il we could, an keepit up so, an
allg We might do it onst or twice.
says she
There's summat in all that, says
my mother, going on with the bread.
y misdoubt meit's age turns the roses
blue, like il turns folks hair white
The rose was allus pearly white
or what you might call a blush-pink
aforc,"
AN the grocers an people with
carts they came from for an near to
see the rose-tree, for 1T was n novelty,
ye see.
"says to Hetty that night after
I'd said my prayers an read my
chapter-for was allus properly
| brought up
"Hetty,' says, fancy mother say
ing that about the blue-bagl'
"'Nes, fancyl says Hetty lauehin'-
an she snufTs out the candle with 'er
fingers an jumps into bed. 4 amt
agoin' TO ave my blue roses run down
neither Why, I'm acoin' to take the
prize at the ilower-show--I ann with
my wonderful blue rosesp
AN sure enough she told parsou
the very next day as she would try
for the prize at the Hover show
1T was Just about that time she
took up with George Winstead. Yes,
i'm as come 90 be your gran'nther in
stead. an is lyin' in his grave at Long
Mailing these 90 good years. Well,
they kep' company together. an every
one was wiilin for he was Codly
young man. an taught in Sunday
school an had good hopes of his
unrle's business which It was a corn
chaudlcr's IN Mcdstonc, an she was a
weli-lookin' girl enough. for all her red
hair, which was made fun OF then,
though I hear les all the rage nova
days. / never zee girl so took up
with a chap as she wHs with him. She
give up curtin 'cr air acause be- liked
Il plain. an she took TO rTadir' the
Bible an ssyin' her prayers like Ia al
lus done, an she'd ailus laughed at me
Hfore for &C.. Why. I've seen her kneel
thcre over ALI an hour. and then set
outer bed agniu when she thought |
WIS a=lerpaud kneei down on the bare
boards hy The Wnder an cry an pray
an say, 'Gsor.e. George. nm pray
again. not out loud. but 50 as | could
ear 'or- Not proper prayers she
didu' say like people sets taught but
/ things outer er own cad, nm the same
things over an. over. till | usetcr say.
"Come along ter bed. Hrity, do,
for gracious sake You'll catch your
death o. cold ON them boards. an I'm
H-d roppin with sleep
well rs fower-show day come
nearer an nedrez. she grew stupider
I an stupldsr nh' more an more given
| 20 prayiu' nm used % be al for goin'
OF by herself au leaving every hing 10
I nle--evru 20 maxim our dresses for
the flower. show an looSin' alter them
roses what was TO take the prize. I
. Id
a good-naturgd -irl,-Hn' the dresses
| they looked lovely. an the roses was
| biuer than ever. instead OF being a
pearly white or a blush-pink, Ike
Z they should ha been 10y rights. An
/ Hetty she prayed an cried o. nights
I Ill / wonder ! ever got wink o. sleep
[ an OF a day she'd laugh till she nearly
cried again. Well. ilower-show day
| came, an We ad our new sprigEei
| prints-cowns was wore short in the
waist then-an' Hetty she looked like
/ a ghost in hers, but they did say
| mine became me wonderful.
cit was a beautiful day. remember,
very sunny an bright, an You was
glad to walk the shady side OF the way
that day, can tell you, Very hot it
was in the big barn where the flower
show was. Twas all done up with
] Nne lluE5 ana NEeAlHH an All sorts,
an IL was that hot the flowers was
most wilted afore it come time for
the prizes. An every one was wipin'
their faces with their 'andkerchers, an
saying there hadn't been such day
/ this twenty year.
"When it come time for the prizes
we was all settin' on forms packed
/ close like herrins. Mother was there
/ OF course, an George an his friends,
/ an Hetty sat next ter me, an George
that's your gran n'father-was settin'
the other side OF her. An she KEEP
/ edgin' away from him an gettin close
to me, an crushin' my new print, not
to mention 'er own, an she KEEP on
/ oldin' my and that tight | didn't
. know 'ow to bear myself, an l never
( see n bonnet with pink ribbons look
worse on any young woman than it
I did on 'er Mine always suited me.
! 'ad it done up with blue the year
was married.
Presently it come to roses. The
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