Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1904-07-22

Miss Kitty said. I'm going to take some
to John, I'll pick them right after din
ner; no one about here has berries as
fine as ours.
Keep your face we'll shaded Suppose
I step over and see if we can have Dea-
con Days buggy
/ "Oh, Hannah. it's so shabby! BY the
upper road it isn't SO very far
: Miss Hannah slipped her tea. "The
buggy Is shabby. We must walk slowly
too warm for our black silks
The dimitY gowns had been new only
! last summer; Miss Ilanuah's had tiny
/ lilac sprigs, ON a white ground; Miss Kit
! tvs the sendcrest thread Of pink. They
/ had been made by Miss Miranda Black.
/ the village drcssmaker. In quite the latest
| fashion-a little modified In Miss Han
nah's case, i'm the matter Of what she
! considered unnecessary furbelows. There
| had been new bonnets to go with the
/ dresses; Miss Kittys had pink rose-buds
in it-Miss Hannah had insisted on her
! having them-had equally insisted on
| purple llacs for her own.
At four o'clock-tall, slender. a little
prim, they walked slowly down the box
! bordered path. to their front gate. Each
/ carried a neatly covered paper box and
| an open parasol and from each right
| wrist danged black silk bag. with
much ingenuity, they contrved at the
| same time to hold their RULED skirts well
| up from lnc dusty Ipdu SHpNluB thereby
the whitest of tucked petticoats, beauti-
| fully Numbered
There's Mrs. Palmer" Miss Kitty said,
as they saw a phacton stopping at Dea-
con Days shes waiting to speak to
| us"
Mrs. Palmer was short and stout and
the phaeton was low. Her manner of
alighting from it was certainly novel-she
simply slid from the broad low seat to the
floor, wriggled bit, until her feet touch
| ed mother earth, then stood slowly up
| And a mighty sensible way it is" she
said with laugh as the sisters reached
her.
Going a-visiting?" she asked.
I'VE are invited to take tea with our
cousins" Miss Hannah answered a little
stny. She thoroughly disapproved of
Mrs. Palmer's manner of alighting from
her phaeton.
What has brought them down this
| time of year,"
"Our cousins have not explained their
reasons to us as yet"
Dressing up in your best clothes al
ways did have a bad effect on you, Han
nah Winthrop reckon you'd like to put
your cousins. and all their belongings
under a glass case. How comes II you're
walking-why didn't they send the car
riage?"
Cousin John did not bring down the
carriages horses this time.
well. | wont keep you Mrs. Palmer
said "You'Ve got n good walk before
YOU. and it's a terribly hot day. To nv
mind the game wouldn't be worth the
candle If this phaeton would hold three
I'd drive Won over myself"
THANK YOU we much prefer walking.
Kitty and I do not feel the heat as much
as stout people'
THE Ninthrops always did run skin
and hone Good-bve. remember me TO
John and Elizabeth"
John and Elizabeth" For fully FIVE
minutes. Miss Hannah walked in silence.
then she said emphaticallv: sally Palm
or always was too familiar"
II was very NOT out ON the broad HIGH
road II seemed a long while before they
turned into tho shady woodland path
with it's far-oT glirnpses of blue sky
necked with white clouds. Below was
the strep bank. ON one side. n little brool,
uIrmurod rnerrilv. while all around
them was the soft rlstliny Of leaves. and
the calling of birds
The wood road brought them to a wide
lane. hordercd on one hand bv fine old
trees on the other by a hedge of wild
: roses coming into bloom
Miss Kitty broke off a sprav Of the dol
, icately tinted blossoms. Isn't il prett,
bera -, sbe said II wonder II E,lizabati
will have tea on the lawn
There's the house. at last" Miss Ham
e nah said.