The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1891-11-12
EDNA,s STORY.

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1t Is About Her Grandma when She Was
Little Girl and WINS Naughty.
I'm going to tell you a story about
my gran'ma.
You'd think gran'mas would always
be good, bnt they amt. ! mean they
are when you know them, but You
don't know them till they're grown-up
ladies' with gray hair and red cheeks
and spcctacles. It's when they're not
gran'mas yet when they re little like
me, ] mean and then | guess they're
better'n am.
I'd like to know real gran mn when
she was little.
Gran'ma's name was 0rissa--only
now we call her Gran'ma Foster--and
she had to spin tow. She had to spin
twenty rolls every day, tenrolls in the
morning and ten in the AFTERNOON.
She used TO do 1t up over the kitchen
in the Observation-Disclosures, and her
mother hst's my G'reat-gran ina
Hooper used to bring the rolls up TO
her and leave her there all alone to
spin her STINT And Orissa didn't
like to spin very well.
Well and si.sre was fireplace In
The kitchen-FhR nber, and no one ever
built a fire there, and there was fire.
board that covered the fireplace all up
so you couldn't see it. And gran'ma-
Orissa--f found that there was q hole In
the fire-board just big enough SO she
could put her hand in.
A H.. <-..sx M
gran'mas will do when they're little
one day Orissa just hated spinning. m
she'd spun six rolls, n she looked at
the other four M she took one Of them
m began to chew it.
1t was so big that her mouth was
full at first, but she chewed m chewed
till at last it was only wad, and then.
she took and put it right through that
hole in the freboard and dropped it in
the dark behind where she knew that
no one would ever find it. So she
didn't have to spin that roll
Well and then she took another roll,
and she chewed that up m dropped IL
through the hole. And then she didn't
dare chew any more, SO she spun the
other two rolls, but when she came to-
the other ten that she had to spin in
the afternoon she chewed one Of them
and dropped 1t through the hole.
And that was the way 0rissa kept
doing every day. She didn't dare put
as many through the hole as she wanted
to, only one or two Mt time,
Her mother kept wondering why
what Orissa spun didn't come to more,
but Orissa never told her why. She.
didn't dare.
But her mother thought Orissa was a
good girl. Mothers most always do
think you're good just as long as they;
can, you know; and 0rissas mother
would say what good girl she was to
spin. and Orisssa would feel just as
mean when she thought about the
chewed-up rolls back Of the freboard,
Well-after awhile Orissa's mother
thought she'd s'prise her with a new
dress II was only calico, but calico
was real precious then.
Why, Gran'ma Foster Orissa never
had had bought dress all her life.
They made all the cloth at home. and
Ii calico that was bought was real pre-
cious.
Soone day her mother said: s0rissn,
you've been such a good girl spinning,
I've bought you dress, and then she
showed her it. Grand ma Fosters got
d piece Of it now in an old quilt, and it
was two blues dark blue and light
blue and yellow and white.
# was pretty. and 0rissa laughed and
hoped up and down, she was 50 glad.
And then--all of sudden she remem-
bcred about the chewed-uprolls. There
were good many Of them by that time
in behind the fire-board. Orissa stopped
hopping. But she didn't tell her mother
And her mother made the dress with
gathers round the neck, and il had
shoulder-straps and Il full waist !
think gran ma musthave looked funny.
And she used TO wear the calico to
church Sundays because It was so pre-
cious Gran'na says she always used to
go two miles to church, and she used TO
carry her shoes in her hand and go
barefoot till she was pretty near, and
put her shoes on. That's the way lots
Of the children did then to save their
shoes. because shoes were precious as
well as calico.
And all the other little girls thought
0rissa's .bonght calico was So iine. and
they looked ut it and wished they had
one, stead Of dresses out OF cloth their
mothers had made at home. But Orissa
Just hated that calico dress