and boxes in and she herself, and they wuz jest drivin' off when Hamen's wife come runnin' down the steps and called out to her cousin:
"Celesteena, you have forgot little Mary!" And at that minute I come downstairs and ketched sight of her and little Jack out in the yard playin'. Celestine looked at her pictures and satchels and things and seemed to come to a realizin' sense that she did miss sunthin', so little Mary wuz called in and put in the stage jest as she wuz, though her dress wuz fur too thin for that cool day, and her face and hands wuzn't what they should be to start off on a journey, and she hadn't a mite of a wrap on, but the pictures and panels wuz protected by thick wrappers, and Celestine didn't see anything wrong. Little Mary kissed her hand to me as they went out of the gate, and I threw a dozen to her, and hundreds of wishes for her future happiness, but I must say I felt dubersome about it, dretful dubersome.
Well, we got home that night in good season, I got a delicious supper, and, oh! how good it did seem to be in my own home agin. Everything looked good to me, even to the tea-kettle and broom. Oh, truly, indeed, hath the poet said and sung, "There is no place like home, there is no place like home."
I found a lot of papers there Thomas J. had sent me, and I wuz glad enough I didn't read 'em till I eat supper and done up my work. For I knew that no supper could I partook of had I seen the dretful news these papers contained. And I didn't see that fatal article for quite a spell. The papers told about Miss Greene Smythe's Charity Bazar, and the first one I opened had a very full description of the party, and over a column wuz devoted to her dress, it wuz described as very shinin' and glit-
