The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1895-11-10

get.
And [ don't think my fingers are quite
we'll yet.
I actually worked thirty button-holes;
Some were large, some were small, some
were long as poles.
Twas my first attempt. kind friends.
But they looked right nice-then / start
ed TO sew.
vi.
soon entered forty-five cents In my
book.
did some sewing for Victoria. our cook.
A shirt-waist for her. a slip for her tot
Thus seventy-hve cents OF my dollar /
got
Ten cents was added a few days ago,
l walked up town ana back-sayed car
fare. you know;
A day or two later I saved five cents
more.
Delighted was that my task was'most
DER.
Now. only ten cents remained to be earn
ed.
And for work OF some kind my fingers
burned:
But an opportunity now presented
10 act as porter / consented.
A certain young man from certain
"Ville"
Came down to our city TO see friends on
this "Hill."
He stopped at our house two days and
two nights.
AID took in the city and her beautiful
sights.
When he left our house to the depot to
He was worried about his grip, I know;
He had forgotten to get a boy
To carry it for him-this little toy.
AS I still had ten cents OF my dollar to
make,
told him that his grip would take;
SO he paid me a dime. and my dollar
And bring II tonight to our Young
Ladies Aid.
MRS. r. d. GARCIN.
over the cooking stove my dollar | made,
When the thermometer stood 100 in the
shade;
made up the bread. made up the cake
And | fried and roasted, / stewed and
baked.
So l hope some good may come from
my dollar
For l certainly did get warm in my
collar
SARAH A. ALLEN.
At the Foreign Mission desk wrote.
Thinking on this dollar ia sport.
But coming home ! met Fannie Burch,
And says she, "Ah, Mary. that dollar
goes to church"
She raved at me with all her might
did you know that meeting was Mon
day night?"
Says TO myself I've got TO hustle and
hurry
To get my mind rid OF this terrible wor-
~.
So, as matter OF course. 10 Aunt Ellie
/ went.
But knowing my heart was on new
hat bent:
Says she, Give that dollar, with very
good grace,
And not think Of adcrning your ugly old
face"
SO now. kind lassies, do not with horror
and dread
Look nj this hat which adorns my head;
All. now, gentlemen. what can say 70
your
IT'S this: Wear your old hat instead Of
the new" MARY WILSON.
Twas in mountain village far from
Where a little brook runs ever clear.
Where the mill wheels ever husly turn
That | started out my dollar to earn.
II CHANGED one night that the n. Y. =. u.
"a thing which many times year they
do.
Gave a social. All their friends they did
invite
And asked OF me that recite
7 looked in vain for something new.
The time was approach-ng,- what should
do?
Down in a big armchair I sat;
/ looked at this and then tried that
friend sat near. and just in fun
selected piece and then begun
In childish tones 10 spell II out,
Like First-CReader chap, or one there
about.
one half in earnest. one half in Jest
q think he Just wanted TO make fesD
He said I'm a very daring way:
Read that, and you'n surely get your
pay"
7 accented the challenge. 10 his surprise;
For wonder and chagrin / saw In his
eyes.
But he kept his word, I'll say, like
man,
without even. trying the 'installment
plan"
When the evening came. 7 gravely rose,
Just as II I'd something great 10 propose;
| told them hoped twas with no impro-
priety
I'd seized this chance for my aid society.
went through II all. though a trial
sore.
IA seized this chance for my Aid Society.
But that ofrer was good for only one
time.
So / lad yet TO plan for many dime.
"A friend In need is a friend indeed"
And one Of this kind from my trouble