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"You just bet I can, young lady," said the milliner to herself as

Kate walked down the street

From afar, Kate saw Nancy Ellen on the veranda, so she walked

slowly to let the effect sink in, but it seemed to make no

impression until she looked up at Nancy Ellen's very feet and

said: "Well, how do you like it?"

"Good gracious!" cried Nancy Ellen "I thought I was having a

stylish caller I didn't know you! Why, I never saw YOU walk

that way before"

"You wouldn't expectlike this onlike that on your head; but

since you have, I don'tin

it," said Nancy Ellen

"Better and better!" laughed Kate, sitting down on the step "The

oose!" said Nancy Ellen "You become that hat, Kate, quite

asday, dressed in a linen suit of natural colour, with

the black bow at her throat, the new hat in a bandbox, and the

renewed sailor on her head, Kate waved her farewells to Nancy

Ellen and Robert on the platfor rooed the hats Nancy Ellen had

told her this was NOT the thing to do She should travel in a

plain untrimmed hat, and when the dust and heat of her journey

were past, she should bathe, put on fresh clothing, and wear such