The Opelousas courier., 1893-07-08

answered. Will you sit uoWA!
sI hain't no time fur a set. Mary
she's gone over to her grandmother's,
and there amt nobody to hum to git
Moore's supper. Mrs. Downing was
saying you was goin' to git her a brown
mereener."
eyes"
II s'pose it won't be no trouble, as
you're buyin', to buy ne n hlach
mereener, too, at the same time?'
"None whatever" Hannah's smile
was getting hollow.
GLOW long be you goin' to stay?"
"Till Monday"
'1ll be round Monday evenin' with
the money. You can git me seventy
cent stuff, about seven yards"
She departed with as little ceremony
as she had entered.
81 told you sol told you So" said
Mrs. Goodrich, as she lighted q candle
and went down cellar with the milk.
"Ef you do fur n you'll have to do
fur the whole town."
Miss Brown, the dressmaker, dropped
in a little later.
81 heerd only just now that you're
goin' to York." she said, as ito apollo
gize for not coming sooner, "and that
you're goin' to get some things for
Mrs. Downing"
eyes, a Dress" Hannah returned,
while her mother gave a tremendous
"Ahem."
$50 I heerd. I don't get to York
very often myself, and I'm afraid I'm
getting a little behind the fashions. 1t
don't pay, you know, for me to get be-
hind" she simpered Miss Brown was
more noted for her shippers than for
the correctness of her styles.
$50 I made bold to step round and
ask you, as you're going to the city
anyway, an will be lookin' at the fash
ions, to just give a look fur me-"
II shall certainly study the fashions
well for my Own benefit"
IT can't say exactly how many pat
terms I'd like you to buy me-"
ooh, you want me to buy patterns,
do you?" Hannah asked quickly. She
was one of the most obliging girls in
the world, but this sort of ching was
becoming ~monotonous.
"As long ns you're in thesoAcity an
goin' right by the fashion stores, ]
s'pose it won't be no trouble for you tc
step in and buy g pattern oraso? 1oa
can get whatever you think igPretty--
some sacks, bodies and skirts, and e.
on. You con tell better'n I can when
you see 'em. You might get about five
dollars worth. I think it'll pay you.
I'll let you have the money when You
know how much it is, or I'll sew ii
out"
While Hannah was silently making
q note of this Mrs. Dobbs, their next
neighbor, came in.
"Pretty neighbors you are" was he1
greeting. "Pretty neighbors! 'Melie,
she just come from the store. Ma
SEE she, what do you think? Hannah
Goodrich is going to the city a-Thurs-
day a-shoppin' an is going to get Mrs.
Downing a dress. I wonder if she
wouldn't buy me a felt hat. I'm sick
an tired O. Miss Miller's hats!' tOf
course she would seq I. "A pretty
neighbor she'd be eff she wouldn't" =
"Why, certainly, said Hanneh, try
ing to call up a smile. Tt was only the
ghost of one that responded, however.
''What kind of a hat will Amelia
want?"
sShe's goin' to leave that to your
Judgment. Somethin' pretty and dressy
and stylish, and thatll be becomin' to
you"
Hannah was dark, with delicate fea-
lures and very pretty. Amelia was
light, with coarse features and homely.
'fShe's willing to go as high as 49,"
Mrs. Dobbs went on. "Still, eff you
don't have to spend SO much she'll be
tickled. Looking around a little and
not taking the fust thing that's offered,
you kin sometimes save as much as
fifty cents"
The school where Hannah vainly
strove each day to make the Witham
youth learned was some distance from
her home, and she took her luncheon
with her. She had just settled down
TO it the next noon, when a delicate,
withered looking, long ago comely
woman entered the room.
Hannah greeted her with ~unfailing
~politeness, hoping against hope that
she had not heard of the intended trip.
Mrs. Guion would not sit down. She
had run over only for a moment. She
had just heard that morning that Mss
Goodrich was going on Thursday to
the city, and wanted to know if she
would be willing to do the least bit OF
an errand there. Would she be so
kind?
Of course Hannah could not say no,
and Mrs. Guion chose to consider her
embarrassed silence an assent, and
took from a bag three pieces of silk
blue, yellow, and green, all peculiar
shades. Would Miss Goodrich be SO
kind as to match them in zephyrs? She
had vainly tried here and in adjacent
towns to do SO, but then you never
could get anything outside of the city,
and you could get everything there.
WOulO MISS Do 80 MILK dS W
get a half pound of each?
The very small item of matching
three peculiar shades Of silk was added
to Hannah's list.
She was sewing that evening when
Mrs. Clark, the physicians wife, came
in. This lady was well of, dressy, but
economical and very fussy. AL
Witham knew that she was hard to