The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-01-26

purse ccltGin!ngaS 81 bill ana o cunning
little chntela;ne watch which could rEu
week between breakfast and lunch
without getting ont of brclth.
There were also somo samples of fiber
Dhamois and powder Tag.
How much are yoar charges?" sho
said, opening up her valises like a sur
geon going down after case of appen-
dicitis.
Swell, that will depend on tho size of
the order, madaIH," said the anxious
postmaster, for Inc was in hurry aud
had his quarterly statement to mako to
tho government, and two or three were
waiting TO get thoir Christmas packages
to see how near they sized up in value
with those sent in exchange for same.
The fire also was going out, and tho
postmaster wanted to slip away and
mash up another panel of fence to kindle
it again, and also he lacked about SIS. 10
of making up the governments share of
the quarterly receipts.
Fill out one O. them applications,
he said, chucking the south end Of
starchbox into the stove and going away
to measure out some kerosene and do up
four foot candy cane and getting the
haVorS good deal mixed.
"What day of tho month is this,
please?" she asked the postmaster as he
went out OH the street to buy all that
was mortal of pink shote cut v shaped
in the neck.
cts tho 10th, +" he painted as he threw
his growsome burden on the scales and
brushed the cold leaf lard from his Span
ish moss whiskers.
81 want to get this off early" she
said, "buckoz it's an order for Christ
mas, and would feel like kicking you
full of holes if you disappointed little
Plantagenet Of his sled''
YES, ma am, said tho tired post
master, putting the last drop of humid
ity he had on a stamp for o little colored
girl whose father still thinks he has the
right Of suffrage.
Can you hustle this right through SO
there won't be any delay, please?" shc
Gald, looking at him earnestly and stab
Ding her pen into the large Early Rose
potato which stood at the desk for that
purpose and then looking far away like
u woman who is about to indorse check
on tho wrong end.
"Waal, L cud go along witho it, of
co'se, if you wuz in right much Of a
hurry, but yit it would cost mo- to do
It," says the postmaster, beginning to
cut up the cold and pulseless clay of tho
hog and lay the fragments on largo
holiday display of ladies and children s
fine white goods.
Don't get tlussy now,'' said she
turning around and putting one foot OH
a keg of nails SO that her bicycle pants
could defy the police. "Don't you dare
to jerk any thraldom on me, or I'll give
you some talk with the bark on it. 1
want you TO understand that I've been
emancipated.
"When did that happen?" says tho
postmaster, winking at an old colored
gent who was worth 81, 900 before the
war.
Never you mind when it happened,
said she, reaching petulantly for her
handkerchief and pulling out by mis-
take a small bicycle oil can and little
mammoth stomach pump for initiating a
wheel when it has that tired feeling.
eff l don't hear from this order 10y re-
turn mail, there'll be new postmaster
in here before the jcnquils come again,
and that amt all, birdie. I'll toll you
another thing, too-if you don't quit
wiping your hands OH the dome of Your
pants, I'll fix it so that you won't sell
much of that there pork. How do you
spell hustle?"
eyes, bat I don't see what that 8 got
to do with Il money order" said the
postmaster, scratching his nose OH bar
rel full Of brooms, for his hands were
lardy, and his nose itched powerful and
scandalous.
Tho new woman looked over her work,
at last spelled hustle" as she would
muscle" and smiled at something in
tho postscript OF the application which
she had just written and was about to
mail, when the postmaster returned to
the department., wiped his hands OH a
New York Tribune and then reminded
her that the thing she had just toyed
with was an application, and then he
said: Madam, if you II excuse the pine
DARKNESS of rough old cuss that's her,
smarter damsite II what you be, I'll
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