Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1910-02-11

petent witnesses, and your listener
dare not attack your recital. The
baseless fabric of vision, then, shall
furnish my theme, chosen with apollo
gies and regrets instead of the more
limited field of pretty Polly's small
talk.
had q dream that was so far re-
moved from the higher criticism that
it had to do with the ancient, respect
able and lamented bar of judgment
theory.
Gabriel had played his trump. and
those Of us who could not follow suit
were arraigned for examination. !
noticed at one side a gathering of pro-
fessional bondsmen in solemn black
and collars that buttoned behind, but
1t seemed there was some trouble
about their real estate titles, and they
did not appear to be getting any of us
out.
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over to me and took me by the left
wing Near at hand was group of
very prosperous looking spirits ar
raigned for judgment.
"Do you belong with that bunch?
the policeman asked.
"Who are they?" was my answer.
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But this irrelevant stuff is taking
up space that the story should occupy.
Dulcie worked in a department store.
She sold Hamburg edging, or stuffed
peppers, or automobiles, or other little
trinkets such as they keep in depart
ment stores. OF what she earned
Dulcie received Sc per week. The re-
mainder was credited to her and deb
tied to somebody else's account in the
ledger kept by G.
Oh, primal energy, you say, rever-
end doctor Well, then, in the ledger
of primal energy.
During her first year in the store
Dulcie was paid S. per week. 1t would
be instructive to know how she lived
on that amount. Don't care? Very
well. Probably you are interested in
larger amounts. Six dollars is larger
amount. l will tell you how she lived
on So per week.
One afternoon at 6, when Dulcie was
sticking her hatpin within an eighth
of an inch of her medulla oblongata
she said to her chum, Sadie - the
girl that waits on you with her left
side:
Say, Sadie, l made a date for din
ner this evening with Piggy"
"You never did, exclaimed Sadie
Admiringly. "Well, amt you the lucky
one? Piggy's an awful swell, and hi
always takes girl to swell places
He took Blanche up to the Hoffman
House one evening, where they have
swell music and you see a lot O
swells. You'll have a swell time
Dulce."
Dulcie hurried homeward Her eye'
were shining, and her cheeks showed
the delicate pink Of life's-real life's-
approaching uuWu II was rudy
and she had so cents left of her las
weeks wages.
The streets were filed with the rusl
hour floods Of people. The electri
lights of Broadway were glowing, call
Ing moths from miles. from leagues
from hundreds Of leagues out of dark
ness around to come in and attend tn
smuggling school. Men in accurat
clothes, with faces Ike those carvct
on cherry stones by the old salts Il
sailors homes turned and stared a
Dulcie us she sped, unheeding, pas
them. Manhattan, the night blooming
cereus, was beginning to unfold 1t
dead white heavy odored petals.
Dulcie stopped in store wher
goods We're cheap and bought an imi
tation lace collar. with her 80 cents
That money was to have been Spen
otherwise-15 cents for supper, l
cents for breakfast, 10 cents for lunch
Another dime was to be added to he
small store of savings, and 5 cent
was to be squandered for licorice drop
the kind that made your cheek loo
like the toothache and last as Ions
The licOrice was an Extravaganza
most carouse but what is life will
out pleasures?