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 1 met Miss Evelyn hrigSs at q SO ciablc of our church during the writer and 1t occurred to i!le that she WaS tht girl l had been looking for. She Gi!n give me any encour,t cement; but. yo" know, faint heart nc'cr won fui. lady and 1 concluded when the spring came on to go down to tife Briggs country place and call on her. I sent up my card, and she obliged me ll wait some time before she made her appearance, but when sne did she was quite cordial. l took courage at this because, you see, 1 hadn't had ln in vItation. Besides, Miss Briggs father is q lawyer, and well to do lawyer standing high in his profession. while l am foreman in a children's waist fac. tory. Besides, Miss Briggs is hig!Il., educated and intellectual, while l don't make any pretense at that sort of thing. l know my business, and tha; $ all l want to know. l can take h1ld G! sewing machine and do more work on it in given time than any trio of operators in my department
 Well, we hadn't been chatting but a few minutes when Miss Briggs looked absorbed in something passing in hei mind. Presently she said MT. Bea- dle, I'm in a peck of trouble Next week were to have the house full of guests, "nd when we came down this summer we found the rats had got into our linen closet and made havoc of cur sheets and pillowcases. We have the material for new ones. bat the wotnan we expected to make them up has disappointed US. I was tryin. to do some of the work when you called, but there's something the mat. ter with our sewing machine won der if you could fix it fer me-
 "i should *nilc.' said. pleased t, have an 'i,p"l, unity To be of service: ",hat's just i. BY ike I.her isn't q paH of a sewing n.achine t!tt don't kHew all about. can put sour ma @'tiE" in orIer and the8 make ho, h::r,"
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 Why, ;he nsar!4is.e,s an right" said.
 "ls it: Well. Neti night try it on one of these pi,iuNe;sSes
 She handed me the tep o1e on Lii. pile. and ill q few minutes ' bad Gli. i>hHd it, She moved t1:e Die n, where could reach it and said:
 Il must run downstairs for q itti, While. Mothers net we'll and have to go into her room occasionally 10 sec that she doesn't want for anything"
 She gave me an cncouragin" smile and went out. l looked around at the piles of cotton and linen all ready to De sewed and remembered the princess 10 whom the l'"d fairy gave impossible tasks. l had often hoasted of my prac- 1lcal knowledge of my business and tine amount of work can dc in given time, but l had never calculated or anything like this. I thought l would be good natured about it and let Miss Briggs see by the time she came back how many pillowcases could turn out
 She didn't come back. worked about an hour when. getting tired. concluded to make an excuse to stop l broke the needle. Going downstairs l met Miss Briggs coming up. l tol( her why I had to stop, but she saiC there was no need to give up for lit tie things like that. since there were plenty of needles in the house Sh, got me another. put if in and wen, to work again reluctantly.
 Miss Briggs stayed with me a little while, chatting pleasantly, and l was getting satisfied with my work wher her mother called her. and she skipped out again. l expected she'd be back soon, but she didn't come An hour passed, and I began 10 think up an other excuse for stopping work This time l concluded to break somethin. that couldn't be fixed. took a stout brass rod out of window curtain and inserting it in the curved arm 1ha, holds 1he needle. broke it off. Then l sat still awhile. knew when Miss Briggs heard the machine stop shed come up. and she did. When she saw the damage that had been done she looked grave for awhile Then She smiled. I looked ruefully at the broken arm.