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The Garies and Their Friends

CHAPTER II
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Ranges of mountains disappeared, and gulfs and bays and islands were entirely lost.

In fact, he was sleepy, and had already had two or three narrow escapes from butting over the candles; finally he fell from his chair, crushing Caddy's newly-trimmed bonnet, to the intense grief and indignation of that young lady, who inflicted summary vengeance upon him before he was sufficiently awake to be aware of what had happened.
The work being finished, Mrs.Ellis and Caddy prepared to take it home to Mrs.Thomas, leaving Esther at home to receive her father on his return and give him his tea.
Mrs.Ellis and Caddy wended their way towards the fashionable part of the city, looking in at the various shop-windows as they went.

Numberless were the great bargains they saw there displayed, and divers were the discussions they held respecting them.

"Oh, isn't that a pretty calico, mother, that with the green ground ?" "'Tis pretty, but it won't wash, child; those colours always run." "Just look at that silk though--now that's cheap, you must acknowledge--only eighty-seven and a half cents; if I only had a dress of that I should be fixed." "Laws, Caddy!" replied Mrs.Ellis, "that stuff is as slazy as a washed cotton handkerchief, and coarse enough almost to sift sand through.

It wouldn't last you any time.


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