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They ain't passed no law against it yet. But " "Oh, be still, Zach Bloomer! You're always talkin' about my playin' the mouth organ. I notice you can't play anything, no, nor sing neither." "You're right, Pansy Blossom. But the difference between you and me is that I know I can't.... Hey? Why, yes, Martha, I shouldn't be a bit surprised if the fog came in any time.
Sarah says, in a letter to a friend, that the Bloomer dress violated her taste, and was so opposed to her sense of modesty that she could hardly endure it. During the residence at Eagleswood, both sisters discarded it altogether. The John Brown tragedy was of course deeply felt by Sarah and Angelina, and the bitter and desperate feelings which inspired it fully sympathized with.
Thirty-two of her scrapbooks are now in the Library of Congress. Aug. 30, 1876, Ida Husted Harper Collection, Henry E. Huntington Library. Nov. 30, 1880, Amelia Bloomer Papers, Seneca Falls Historical Society, Seneca Falls, N. Y. Harper, Anthony, II, p. 531. The History received friendly and complimentary reviews, the New York Tribune and Sun giving it two columns.
"If you ask me, Smith," said Bolt critically. "If you ask my opinion I'd say you've made a bloomer of this show." "You can keep your opinion till I do ask for it," came the retort. "Get in. She's clear now." He took a heave on the starting handle and jumped to his place at the wheel. "Keep your eye on those tyre marks, Dirk. If you lose 'em I'll break your head."
How could that lightship help pitchin', I'd like to know?" Mr. Bloomer adjusted the tin cover on the can in which Martha had put the coffee, then he put the can in the pocket of his slicker. "We-ll, I tell you, Primmie," he drawled. "You see, we had pretty toler'ble long anchor chains on that craft and when the captain see how 'twas blowin' he let them chains out full length.
A neat little room adjoining the public office became a kind of ladies' exchange, where those coming from different parts of the town could meet to talk over the news of the day and read the papers and magazines that came to Mrs. Bloomer as editor of the Lily. Those who enjoyed the brief reign of a woman in the post office can readily testify to the void felt by the ladies of the village when Mrs.
Bloomer, we could take much more exercise without fatigue, and should be saved much time and much annoyance. Who but a woman can appreciate the trouble of always being obliged to use one hand in carrying her skirts up long flights of stairs? Who but a woman knows the inconvenience of her long skirts in entering or leaving a carriage, or in a strong wind?
He stood for a moment thinking, his eyes upon the winking, flickering points of light that seemed dimmer in the fast growing light. "Now why did he make that bloomer about dates, I wonder? Uncle's been gone five years and Borkins knew it. He was here at the time, and yet why did he suggest that old wives' tale as a possible solution of the disappearance?
Well, if he wan't any taller'n I be he showed good jedgment.... Zacheus and Galushy and Primrose!... Godfreys!" Primmie was shocked. "Why, Zach Bloomer!" she exclaimed. "The idea of your talkin' so about a person's name you never met but just now in your lifetime." Zacheus regarded the owner of the name. "No offense meant and none given, Mr. Bangs," he observed. "Eh? That's right, ain't it?"
This sturdy annual is seldom at its best before the first frosts, and can be considered in its prime during the first half of October. And it will last until cold weather sets in. Ten Week Stock the "Gillyflower" of grandmother's garden is a late bloomer. The snows of November often find it full of flowers, and are powerless to injure it.
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