"Andy Smiley ain't the only one that's doing well. Johnny Peters got a
raise the other day and Claudie's treated herself to two dozen
beautiful linen dish towels. She says she's used flour sacks to wipe
dishes ever since she was six years old and she's always been hoping
she'd be rich enough some day to have real linen dish towels. So she's
got 'em. But they're so nice she hardly likes to use them, and the two
weeks she was sick and had to have her washing done at the laundry she
was mighty careful not to send them. She washed them herself right
there beside her bed, and her sick with rheumatism. They say Doc
Philipps used awful language, for he caught her right at it. But when
she explained he just blew his nose and never said another word. But
he talked to Johnny and Johnny went out and bought four dozen dish
towels such as Green Valley has never seen. Why, Sadie Dundry says
even the Ainslees haven't got dish towels like that. Doc says that if
he can coax some man to get Dolly Beatty good woolen stockings and keep
her from wearing those transparent things this winter he'll be almost
happy; says if Dolly should marry that widower he'll talk to him.
"All Elm Street's laughing at Alexander Sabin and Carrie and their
pump.
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