Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1907-01-19

scene OF the grinder INDUSTRY ana re-
marked:
you've earnt two bits already, amt
you, pap
Yes"
"Mayn't / have 10 cents to buy
cake2 There's n place to the corner
and things in the winder-cakes wi
raislns ln-splendid! Mayn't r.
"Well see Lee; wen see" The
grinder, embarrassed by too many
presences, looked wildly at the front
walls before him and the back walls
behind him, as if meditating an escape.
''Pa, mayn'tI|
Bread and rent come before cake.
Wait till we see what we have over at
night" said the grinder, driven to def
mite reply
Mrs. Hedge darted upstairs and ran
sacked her pantry. The cake box was
empty. but there were a few sweet
crackers. These and n bundle unskiii-
fully wrapped in a morning paper she
offered to the child just as the grinder
was taking leave
rs 1t cake?"
mo, dear; a dress which hope you
can wear"
Long enough, do you think? Pa
says I'm getting tall as a shot tower;
but, then I'm very old--most seven"
A week later Mr.. and Mrs. Hedge.
walking on Geary street, met the same
pair, father and daughter Leel looked
up brightly. recognizing the friendly
face, and said:
The dress was too short for me.
Wasn't it n lover
Corn colored with white lace yes,
sighed Mrs. Hedge, remembering how
her little brown eyed Lissie had looked
In It,
80 l had TO take it round to Israers,
you know. Pa said | should spend cv-
cry cent got for it myself, so
bought this calico for six bits. Amt
1t nice and long? And this hat for two
bits. It's not in the fashion, but its
big-lots big. And then | got Il lovely
cake wi raisins in-not big. but so
sweet. | gave some to pa and some to
Molly Brown. and l ate some, and it
was gooder than popcorn
"SpillmOuth. Ii you ever gets Il hus-
band you'll chatter him dead" said
the grinder pushing the child along,
but Mrs. Hedge stopped them with
gesture and cried out:
what are you talking about. childf
Do you mean to say that you sold that
old dress for more than dollar? 1t
was nice, to be sure, but so old"
"Oh, the dress sold for two bits, and
the thing that was in the pocket-that
thing that opens and the's picture
Inside, you know-why, that brought
dollar"
ooh, you don't meant can't be-oh
The lockets The locket!7 almost
screamed Mrs. Hedge Get it for ne,
Adam; get * again. l shall never rest
until | have it safe III my own hands.
Oh oh, OH
ITS only . bit of folly, like the dress
itself" eXrostulated Adam, but his
wife, when she heard these words
looked rs If she might faint right there
on the street. so that Adam, in alarm,
promised to recover the locket if pos
sible
Leel looked frightened and moved a
pace away, but was persuaded by
promiEe of more cake to go with Adam
Hedge in quest Of the trinlet.
Mr.. Israel remembered selling the
locSet because ii brought him luck,
he said. He had sold it below cost be,
cause the person who wanted it was
the FIRST customer on Monday morn
Ing, and he would have been ruined
for week had she gone out without
making n purchase. Mr.. Israel did moi
know her name or address. She
bought nothing else, and of course she
carried the locket away herself, so
there had been no delivery address
left. She was II short woman and
wore her hair In curls 1t was brown
and hung over her shoulders That
was all he could remember about her
looks.
ITS no good hunting the thing"
Adam reported to his wife that night.
BEST let it 90 and never mind. 1t isn't
worth the fuss you're making
"Oh, Adanl."
Il say ii .snt. You never wear it
anyway ! wouldn't give cents
dozen for such trinkets When you've
got bird right in your cage, the thing
itself, its nonsense to want Il picture
Of It, so | say the birds better than
the picture
"Oh, but haven't really got it. It's
lost to me; lost foreyer-lost, lost. lost!'
Mrs. Hedge began crying and cried Il
good deal % the night In the morning
Adam visited three newspaper Offices
and with subdued wrath saw his little
store of money melting away in adver,
tisements. Every man who did bust
ness with Adam was compelled to hear
such CALCULATIONS as:
Beats the world for downright tom
fOOlpFE' The pipt1r,a Of a ,..,,r,g1, food