Show toma lowers She Wanted fcoine Flowers A lady living in the suburbs was called down the other morning to see a young girl who asked for her at the door but declined to enter the hcuse The lady recognized the caller as a girl she had frequently seen in the neighborhood neigh-borhood but of whose name she was ignorant The girl looked hurriedly up and then bashfully cast down her eyes to the doormat which she nervously prodded with the toe of her coarse boot Got any flowers she demanded with a manner which seemed gruff but which was probably only frightened Yes a few was the reply Got any flowers No many Why Cause Mis Purington wants some Who is Mrs PurIngton Shes the widow woman what lived in the red house at the end of Back allevWhat What sort of flowers does she want1 inquired the lady utterly at a loss to know why Mrs Purington the widow who dwelt in the red house at the end of Back alley should send to demand flowers from a perfect stranger I dunno answered the girl more sullenly than before I But what is she cointr to do with them persisted the puzzled lady n 1 dunno repeated the caller Shes dead an she wants some flowers And the pathetic situation having thus become clear at length the lady sent to the departed widow who would dwell no more in the red house at the end of Back alley whatever blossoms the frost had spared in her little garden Boston Courier |