The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1894-03-15
CHAPTER 1.

CHATTER 1.
She was dress make. net fashion
able dressmaker, not West End dress
maker. lot an emplcye. OF other dress
makers: she was MT called Nine. Fe-
licie or Nine. Sybille, or anything but
plain Mary Ivors. She went out for SO
much a day-half crown, | think.
with Dime: and tea. The dinners
placed before her were for the most
part what are called palma cut OF
cold beef and d waxy potato. The best
part OF dinner to daily dressmaker is
the rest: her tea was ken among TIE
needles and thread and the remnants,
without rest to speak of. Yet she pre-
Eerred tea to dinner: the latter is a
'strengthener. but the former heart
0ner, as all women know, and many
mon. She lived by herself in q re-
Spectable family. with whom she had
breakfast ard supper: her 10 m was on
the ground cor, back, which looked
out on somebody elses garden wall
you could sec a Virginia creeper on the
top for four months in the year. Some
times u branch hung over and turned
crimson in the autumn. The place
where she lived was in a back street
leading GU: of a side street in the Mile
End Road.
Mary was country girl allu,cd to
town by the prospects OF good work and
good pay and by the p rs Lasions of an
aunt. She was a, neat and comedy a
girl to look at as che may expect to
find anywhere: she stood five tect
eight in her stockings. she was big
limbed, strong and active, girl who
was by no means afraid of anything
within reason, that called itself man:
a girl greatly respected by all who
knew her. Partly ny the intr, duction
of her aunt. who was in the same pre-
fession, and partly by reason of the
aunt's untimely deceas,. which let q
gap Or vacancy in dressmakcry. Mar,
was getting on very well. Her client lie
day mostly in and about he region
north OF Tower Hill, which is not very
far from the Mile End Road. A penny
fare morning and evening covers most
OF the way. TO students of London
this corner Of the city is interesting
in many ways, as, for instance, that it
is the only part OF the city proper
where there is a population. Courts,
holes and corners the, c a~e here and
there in other parts, Lut there the
people live over their shops in the
main thorough fares and in the private
houses i'm the streets leading from
NtsSAA' law CiASS AA"o AA'"SAA ~" ~ oAs1 y
all their own?
1t was, in fact. in America Square
that Mary had her most useful friends.
ESPECIALLY she wai in demand at Nick
els, where, had she wished, she might
have been employed. | believe, the
whole year round. because Frau Nick
cl who ran this O. Establishment for pur-
poses OF profit as Is select boarding
house o. private hotc! fer German
gentlemen connected with commerce,
-, found the girl everything that she de-
sired - trustworthy, no shirker of
work, respectful. clever. neat and full
of professional ideas. The Frau was
always ready, over ready. perhaps. to
take enc of h + OWE sox to her heart:
she was equally ready to cast Oil this
bosom friend on Il suspicion Of false
hood, treachery. or lese ,amitie of any
kind. Friendships rapidly formed are
Alike riches quickly amassed. That is
to say they arc prone to melt away as
xa,idly and. like them, q, easily to
xVnish into thin air. and as happens
sometimes to the really warm-heartcd.
Mrs. Nickel was too apt to lend ready
belief to anything that was told her.
Since Mary was young. and III good
work, and comely 10 gaze uron. it is
not nee cssary to explain that >hc had
young man. He MAS very nice
young man. older than herself by six
nr .s,vcn wears which mazda III, fO, h iS