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get caps for the boys and sailor-hats for the girls The vision of her

little brood looking fresh and dainty and new for once in their lives

excited her and hbors sometimes talked of certain "better days" that little Mrs

So Mrs Soed in no such morbid retrospection She had no time--no

second of time to devote to the past The needs of the present absorbed

her every faculty A vision of the future like soaunt monster

sometimes appalled her, but luckily to-morrow never coains; who could stand

for hoursher way inch by inch toward the desired object that was

selling below cost She could elbow her way if need be; she had learned

to clutch a piece of goods and hold it and stick to it with persistence

and determination till her turn came to be served, no matter when it

came

But that day she was a little faint and tired She had sed a light

luncheon--no! when she ca the children

fed and the place righted, and preparing herself for the shopping bout,

she had actually forgotten to eat any luncheon at all!