The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1895-09-13

glass. It's my grand-darter's birth
day next week. She's on ter school.
She works her way mostly, an my
darter washes an pays the rest.
That's why Mirandy couldn't come
home this summer. She's workin'
out where she wus, an we couldn' Z
afford the car hire. IL makes me feel
mean-like 10 be a-ridin' myself.
You'd like ter know Mirandy; she's
an awful good girl, an when she gifts
through me ner mar hain't a-goin' TO
work hard no more, she SER
Here the young person brought
back the nickel and it's safe disposi-
ton interrupted the conversation.
The pessimist figited and seemed re-
lieved when the girl asked:
And did You intend to send the
cum buttons To MirandyRf'
Yes" answered the old lady.
Her mars made 4 waist ies' like that
store one, an was a-goin' to ter
put the buttons in Il. Mirandy likes
purity things, ies' like all gals, but
she don't have n chance ter git much.
I don't know what Wen do now't
the button-hOles is worked on both
sides, fer they hain't but four but
tons left, an two OF them1l have ter
be put in the cuffs. An they wus
sech purity ones; see?" and she
fished into her purse with trembling
fingers and placed a cheap white
china stud, the top lined with gilt
tering quicksilver into the girls out
stretched palm.
al must er lost 'em out of my
purse" said the old lady regret
fully.
The girl seemed TO have n sudden
inspiration. "Did YOU say YOU had
four of them left9" she asked in low
tones.
"Yes, replied the old lady, pro-
dueing the other three.
"Now, III tell you, +" said the girl,
perhaps you and can make an
exchange that will suit both OF US
better" and she unwrapped a small
box she was carrying and disclosed
to the old lady's admiring gaze an
inexpensive but pretty and complete
set in silver and blue enamel.
81 don't need these. only got
them because it was sale day and
could get them cheap. Now yours
are so much SIMMER than these that
il you will only trade with me / shall
think it a great favor. I've got an
extra pair OF cuf buttons that I've
got no studs for, so you see twill be
just the thing"
The old lady looked with covetous
eyes at the dainty set, but her na-
tive independence prevailed.
you're sure you'd jes' as lieve
have these?" she queried.
"Oh, much rather" was the
prompt reply.
'My darter wouldn't like me to
take nothin' from nobody, ner Mir
andy neither"
'But you see its / who wants to
make the exchange"
"An' they wus cheap?" pursued
the old lady.
"Yes very cheap" hurried the girl.
81 get OF; will you trader"
The old lady pressed the China
buttons in the girls hand and
clasped the little box with a drawn
breath OF satisfaction.
Good bye" said the girl. "You
mustn't walk in the sun. Here's my
umbrella" and she thrust the stick
in the reluctant old hand, replying
to her honest questioning eyes, "Im
come and get il some day"
81 didn't tell her where lived,
wus that iustered," quavered the
old lady distressfully, as the car rat
tied on.
"Oh, don't you worry" said the
young, young man, "she's likely got
a dozen of them, more or less"
And then the pessimist discovered
that he was three blocks past his
corner. The next day his daughter
blossomed out in the duck suit she'd
been teasing for all summer.-Round
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