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The next mornin' wuz fair and pleasant, and we got a good, early start. We went with the democrat, and Jack wuz goin' to set between us after we left Delight; we put in her little willer chair in front, and Jack sot in that till we left her.

I had put on my second best black alpaca dress and my black bunnet that I had mourned for Mother Allen in; it wuz jest as good as it ever wuz. Mournin' for a mother-in-law hain't so hard on clothes as mournin' for your own parents. It wuz real fashionable in shape, for you know fashions come round agin in jest about so long a time, and I had kep' this in a bandbox for years and years, till, lo and behold! time, that had rolled round and round, had rolled this right into fashion agin. It wuz a kind of poke, but not too pokey. I also wore my black shawl I had mourned in, jest as good as new, the nap not took off a mite. I didn't wear my crape veil, thinkin' I didn't want to look as if I wuz mournin' too much, but I wanted to be jest right for a connection of the Bodleys by marriage.

Josiah acted kinder sot about dressin' for the funeral. He would wear his pepper and salt suit. I told him it didn't look half so well as black at a funeral.

"Well," sez he, "I hain't a-goin' to mourn much."

Sez I, "You could jest as well mourn what you calculate to in a black suit as a gray one."