Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-08-28
| IL CALICO FROCK,

wasn't a hot day, nor q cold day,
damp day, but it was an atrocious
. clammy day, an unbearable day,
that made your clothes stick to
like poor relations, that brought
cold sweats on pitchers and goblets,
made your back race-course for
emptible little chills and the rest
our body q target for a thousand in
lie pins and needles, that made the
shopper burden and the dusty,
lined city a pandemonium, that
Solomon Griggs, bachelor, of the
Of Griggs, Makem & Co., the great
ling merchants, shut up his ledger
bang and start for the country
the next train, remarking to old
pesby, the head clerk, "that the city
sitting"
which that worthy replied:
% it is, but how about the fellers
can't get out of it and must stay to
boked?"
problem which, 7 suspect, our
d Of the firm of Griggs, Makem &
troubled his head very little about,
Just then busy in looking into the
recesses of that picture gallery,
memory furnishes and arranges
sail as a single landscape, hanging
low house with messy, overhanging
standing on the slope of green
shaded by branching elms, with
fields stretching off in the fore
I'd toward the sparkling water on
ide and dusky woods on the other,
here dusty, sweating and tired,
non found himself just about sun
Out came o ruddy-cheeked. smil-
lady in o cap and apron that had
ID state of snowy perfection I'M
to city laundresses.
Thy, bless me, if it isn't little Sol
who'd q thought Of seeing you?"
|he folded the stalwart, bearded
in as warm an embrace as though
ere in reality still the little Sol .oi
er days. "And how do you do,
Come in, come in; don't stand
here. You know the little path
he way to the pantry yet, I dare
Come in; you needn't start back
lnly Rachel"
ut I didn't know you had any
6 ladies' with you, Aunt Hester"
Is only Rachel, I tell you-Rachel
the seamstress. Are there nc
en- in your city that you are afraid tc
alittle country girl?"
little, indeed" thought Solomon,
acknowledged his aunt's some
peculiar introduction-and not
", either-with large eyes of that
rtain gray that sometimes beams
lv blue and then deepens into
n, with smooth, low forehead and
brown hair drawn tightly across
ear, just revealing its crimson tip
ce irregularly featured, and rem
d still more striking by the singu
ontrast between its extreme pallol
the intensely scarlet lips-the per
ication of neatness, the embodi
Of reserve.
IN odd little person." thought Solo
but it's none of my business.
smissing her from his mind, he pro
Jed to the much more importan
hess Of making himself perceptibl'
unit Hester's tea-table.
Plomon did ample justice to tn
J bread, golden butter and luscious
soerrles, and later, as that worth.
.ndulging in a stroll across the field
lted up his eyes and beheld tn
Seamstress, whose existence h
quite forgotten, under venerable
y tree, making desperate efforts t
tempting branch on its loves
sn' revealing in her gyrations
neat foot and ankle, and looking
pst pretty with her flushed cheek
SPARKLING eyes.
wv Sol. was q gallant man-decid
lhe preux chevalier of the firm Q
u.s. Makem g. Co.; so that when
as mad once or twice happened,
coat ventured into the mould
rs OF the establishment, Sol. wa
nah whom destiny and the othe
uefs selected to parley with the on
avancing, therefore, with happ
lure Of confidence and condescen
ool. plucked the cherries and wa
as!o present them, when Indepen
IN 8 calico frock stepped bac
neep them yourself, sir; I don't car
thought that you wanted them,
r. TO-, ! did, because they were Difficult
ssaln; had they been on your aunt
.. ! would not have touched then
. me glow of triumph that gives
r sale to its zest. Eat the cherrie
s ta and good evening, sir!"
'op momeut!" said SOL, not
nj; ttssonlshed; shat isl mean