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HOW HE WENT SHOPPING.
When I was down in York one day,
selling our potatoes, it occurred to me
that I ought to buy something handsome
for my wife. Seemed to me she’d been
getting plainer and plainer lately. She
■was all kind of ash color—I mean as to
clothes, bonnet and gloves, and all, the
last time I went to church with her, and
she used to be fixy.
But she did it all for the best—there
couldn’t be a doubt of that—and I thought
Td just show her. So when the potatoes
were sold and the other things, and I’d
iiad my chop and my cup of tea. I just
walked along uptownward, looking into
the windows, and pretty soon I came to
a milliner's shop. There was a fat Jew
ish lady sitting at the door, and when I
came up she nodded and smiled just as
sociable as if she’d known me from a
baby, and says she:
“Doesn’t the gentleman want to walk
in and look at some nice bonnets—beau
tiful bonnets—inside? The latest style
from Paris. And it does not cost nothing
to look at them—nothing at all. It’s as
cheap sitting down at the counter as
standing up outside.”
“That’s very true, ma’am,” says I, and
in I walked, and down I sat on a stool she
gave me, and out of the cases she began
to take all sorts of bonnets.
“Is it for your own good lady?” says
she, “or is it for a daughter, or may be it
is for a little miss? If I know I can make
a selection. All the latest styles, but it’s
a matter of taste, a bonnet is—a matter
of taste entirely.”
“Right you are there, ma’am,” says I.
“Now, my taste is gay and my wife has
been putting herself into Quaker colors
lately, and a little bit of brightness is
what I’m looking for. So out with your
prettiest, ma’am, and if I’m pleased I’ll
pay for it.”
“I see—I see,” says the Jewish lady.
■“I'll get you down the handsomest
bonnet in the store. Indeed, there’s noth
ing like it in all the Bowery, there is not,”
and up the ladder she went, me holding
it, and down she came with a bandbox
and opened it, and there was a bonnet.
It v.asa good big bonnet, to begin with,
and I like plenty for my money, and it
was as pretty a pea green as ever mortal
eye looked upon—satin, and all ruffled
up and gathered about so you couldn’t
think how it was done, unless it was by
magic. And right on the side of it was
a red bird as big as my hand, with a
Jong tail rising up broad and stylish over
the crown, and his claws seeming to hold
tight to a'bunch of cherries as natural jis
if they’d been picked off the tree, and a
big yellow glass eye in bis head, and the
•strings were green velvet on one side
and red satin on the other, and as broad
as my hand. There was a bonnet!
“Ah!” says I, bringing my breath out
as a man does when he feels relieved.
'‘Ah! you’ve hit it now, ma’am. That is a
tasty bonnet, and puts me in mind of old
times. That pleases me, and may I ask
the price?”
“It’s a lovely bonne^” said the Jewish
lady, “and when you d see it on your
lady it would be lovelier, for it’s a bonnet
that would give dignity to any lady, and
elegance and beauty, and cheap it is at
twelve dollars, my dear gentleman, and
only that it is so late in the season it
would be fifteen; but if you’d have a box
for it and avoid soiling it or crushing it
or that, why, twenty-five cents more
would cover the expense.”
■“The box, by all means,” says I, so in
a minute more I had it by a loop, and
liad paid my twelve dollars and a quarter
for it. and was walking up the Bowery
thinking how Cathrine Ann would feel
when she saw that bonnet, and as I’d put
away a lot of money in my brown pocket-
book. I thought I’d be liberal for once
and buy her a mantilla, too, and there
was one standing out at a door, all bro
caded velvet, blue, with a ball fringe,
and only seven dollars to close up busi
ness. And I went and bought it, and
they put that in a box, too. And then 1
started for the depot and the cars.
I was very fond of Cathrine Ann, and
it had been hurting me that she should
•dress so poky, and perhaps think I'd got
mean as 1 got older, and it was nigh
about our wedding day, and I wanted to
. give her a good time.
[ didn't think about much else until I
got to our place and pushed open the
door. Tea was ready, and Cathrine Ann
was sitting before the stove.
“The girl is going,” says she. “She
eays it’s too lonely here. Her month was
up at 5 o'clock, and she’s packing to go
on the evening train.”
“Just like ’em,” says I. “But light up,
Cathrine Ann, I've got something 1 want
to show you. I've been noticing that
you haven't treated yourself well about
clothes lately, so I've been shopping for
you.”
“Why, Richard,” says she: “I thought
you'd think I’d been just a little extrava
gant.”
“Not you,” says I. “You thought I was
getting mean and wanted you to make
jackets out of my old overcoats or some
thing. Now, see here, this is what I want
you to wear, and when they’re gone more
like ’em,” and out I whipped my bonnet
and my mantilla and held ’em up on each
fist. Well. I never saw Cathrine Ann act
as she did that day in my life. First she
stared until I thought her eyes would hop
out of her head. Then she gave a little
shriek, then she laughed, then she cried,
and then she came and put both arms
about my neck and kiased me.
'•You dear good old thing,” said she.
“Well.” said I, “I’m glad you like ’em.
I ain’t so forgetful of your looks as you
may think. I'm just as proud of ’em as
ever, and it ain’t time for you to settle
down to be a Quaker grandmother yet
by any means. Try ’em on, Catiirine
Ann.”
She did as I asked her. The way that
red bird stood up on the green bonnet
was stylish, and the blue hobs on the
mantilla looked slick, and Cathrine Ann
turned herself about solemn and calm
before me.
“What did you give for them, my
dear? ’ says she.
So I told her.
“You were very generous,” says she.
“I’m going to take real good care of
them for very best. I never had any
thing like them in all my life, and never
expected to.”
Then she came to me and hugged me,
and began to cry again; but just then in
came Biddy Dolan, the girl, with her
hat on.
“I’m goin’, ma’am.” said she; then
she threw up her hands and opened her
eyes wide.
’ “Howly Mother!” she squealed. “Was
there iver such an elegant bonnet! I
didn’t see one like it in me life, barrin’
’twas once on me Lady Murphy in Dublin
city— s he was ridin’ in her carriage. And
the beautiful cape! Sure, ma’am, darlin’,
it’s like a quane ye look.”
“Thank you, Biddy,” said my wife,
and in a minute more she went out with
the girl and shut the door between the
kitchen and the dining room. Then they
went upstairs together, and when my
wife came down she had put the things
away.
It was like courting times that night.
I never knew Cathrine Ann to make so
much of me, and when you have tried to
please any one it’s nice to feel that they
feel what you've been about. That was
a real pleasant night. However, as time
went on 1 began to feel sort o’ curious
about one thing. I dunno how long ago
it was since I had given Cathrine Ann
the bonnet and mantilla, and she hadn’t
once let me see her in them; not once.
First Sunday she didn't go to church
because she had no girl. Second she did
go in the old dust colored things. Said
she felt bashful about showing herself
first in the new ones Sundays. And next
she had rather a headache and stayed at
home.
So it went on. I was getting mad
about it, and business took me down to
York again, and I was away four days
—about the longest time I ever was
away from home since I was married—
and one evening I took a notion to go to
a museum, and there in the front row,
with her back round, was my wife. I
couldn't believe my eyes. But it was a
fact; my .wife in her new bonnet and
mantilla that I had bought myself.
I’d have knowed ’em anywhere, and
beside her a big young man with a red
neck and a green neck tie, and his arm
around her waist, and she snuggling up
to him as if it was courting times, and
they were alone in the front parlor Sun
day evening.
You could have knocked me down
with a goose feather. I guess I got a
little white, for I saw folks looking at
me; but I laid low and said nothing until
the song was over and the folks began to
get up. Then I crept up soft and sure
toward my wife and that fellow, for they
never budged, but just sat still making a
show of themselves there. Who he was
I didn’t ask, but I was going to wipe him
out, whoever he was. As far as Cathrine
Ann went I knew it was my fault. I’d
drove her to such courses by dressing her
up a’most agin her will in all the splen
dors of fashion.
She’d known her weakness and kept
plain. The minister’ had preached on
that subject and I hadn't paid attention.
I’d tricked her out, and this is what it
had led to. Coming to New York to go
to museums with young men! How sud
den it was and how awful! I remem
bered how good I felt bringing home
those things, and I sort of wanted to die;
but I crept up and up, clubbing my
umbrill, and in a moment more down
it came kersmash! on the top of that
fellow's red head, and over he went with
a howl.
“Bloody murther! it’s kilt I am!” says
he. “But I'll pay ye back, ye divil, I
will!” and off went his coat.
But at that minute two men seized
upon him and two seized upon me.
“Gentlemen—gentlemen, what is all
this about?” says a fat man in a tall liat
coming up to us.
“Well,” says I, “when I find my wife
running about town with a strange fel
low”—
But there I stopped. The woman was
looking at me, and it wasn’t my wife—it
wasn't Cathrine Ann. It was no more
and no less than Biddy Dolan, who left
our house the night I took those things
home. But she had my wife’s bonnet on
and my wife's mantilla, and being the
same height and the same colored hair, I
made the mistake.
“It's not my wife!” I says, out loud,
feeling as if I’d got hold of life again.
“But 'those are her clothes! You’ve
robbed her of them, you thieving creat
ure, and she hasn’t dared tell me! The
height of the fashion and the best of the
kind to be bought in New York, jmd she
never had them on once! I’ll send for
the police and have you arrested!”
But Biddy didn't quail. She put her
arms akimbo and stared at me.
“I’m no thafe!” said she. “Send for
the missus and prove me words true. Ye
brought the bonnit and mantilla home
the night I left, bad luck to ye! Ye’ll
not deny that!”
“No,” said I, “that's true.”
“And me coinin’ in and saying me
thoughts .consarnin’ thim,” said Biddy.
“What did the missus do but come tome
in the kitchen. ‘Biddy,’ says she to me,
‘me husband lias brought me home these
things I've on wid the best intentions,
but they are far too gay for me at my
toime iv life,’ says she, ‘and since ye loike
them,’ says she, ‘take them for the wages.
They're worth far more,’ sez she, ‘but I'd
never be wearin’ them.’ And sure it was
a daeent bargain, and me after bein’ mar
ried shortly to Pat here, so I took it and
said thank ye, an’ you’re an ould fool, ye
are, for yer pains!”
I looked at her a minute.
“You’re right there. Biddy,” says I.
“I see you're speakin’ truth. You see,
my wife never mentioned what she’d done
to me.”
“Then it's your wife's fault, not mine,”
sa.id Biddy.
“An’ no offense, seem’ it was all a
mushtake,” said her lover.
Then off I walked with my hat over
my eyes, and up home I went, and when
Cathrine Ann saw me she screamed out:
“Oh, Richard, what’s the matter?”
“Cathrine Ann,” says I, “a woman
can’t deceive her husband without harm
cornin’ of it,” and I sat down at the table
and put my head in my arms and fairly
cried like a baby, I was so disappointed
and astonished and so upset altogether,
besides the shame.—Mary Kyle Dallas in
Fireside Companion.
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