“I'/.o been thliikln,” she went on, with
emotion, “dal 1 orlen mourn like dat fer
deni blessed lam's dat I'/.e put away, t
think I'd look jest about as llxy as any
body.” Malvina paused expectantly fur
confirmation of her views,
“You’d look awful nice, Aunt Vlney, I
can Just, see you new,”
“It’s made me fmd mighty snllnmtlke.
Nobody what don't know can tell what
an orfnl thing It Is to he a wldder. Would
you git de crape veil den If yen’s me, Miss
Lldle)”’
“Indeed 1 would," responded the fun
loving girl promptly. “And mourn far the
three hoys all together.“
"It'll lake three or four weeks' savin up
to git It, hut I 'low I'll lie able to git It
long 'limit Master, If nothin happens,”
said Vlney hopefully as she started home
that afternoon.
“1 ain't get long fer In stay hero;
i ain't get lung fer to stay here,"
chanted Malvina faithfully for throe sue*
eesslve weeks.
"(live mo de money In ehloken feed,
please,Miss Lldle," meaning small change,
“den I can put sumo of It away handler,"
Hho would then slew It away temporarily
somewhere In the roomy hollows of her
mouth. Malvina had a line seem fur
purses. "Dimple's alius loslu money outer
dem little polities," (valises) was hereon
tendon, "When I got It In my inouf, I
know It's dure,”
"Laws a mercy, honey," she would de
clare when Lida sometimes remonstrated
against the habit on sanitary grounds.
"All do money Vlney'll ever git ain’t goln
to pi/,en her."
Hut the fourth Monday the widow re
reived her emilldanle with placid cheerful
ness written upon her face,
“ Heekon I won't get dem weeds Jest ylt,
Miss Lida," she began.
“Why, what’s the mailer! 1 " queried Lida
In surprise.
