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An' as soon as I see Jennie I see it was Jennie come back hair just as natural as if it was church Sunday mornin' an' her in her pew. We all knew it was so, an' we all said so, an' Mis' Crapwell, she just out cryin' like she'd broke her heart. An' when the first of it was over, she went acrost to 'Leven, an' 'Oh, s'she, 'you've give her back to me. You give her back.
"An' after a while we made her see it, an' that was the first regular dress ever wore to a buryin' in Friendship, by the one that was the one. "I'll never forget when 'Leven come out o' that room, after she'd got through. We all went in Mis' Crapwell an' Mis' Toplady an' Mis' Holcomb an' I, an' some more. An' I took 'Leven back in with me.
Delia, she was shy about not havin' much education Mis' Proudfit hed wanted to send her off to school, an' Mis' Crapwell wouldn't hear to it an' Abel kep' talkin' that he was goin' to hev a big church in the City some day, an' I guess that scairt Delia some, an' Jennie kep' frettin' an' houndin' her, one way an' another, an' a-callin' her 'parson's wife' ain't it awful the power them pin-pricky things has if we let 'em?
So Calliope had to put up from Martha Boughton with just what Jennie Crapwell had to take from Delia, more'n twenty-five years afterwards. "It was near thirty years before we see either of 'em again. Then, just a little before I'm tellin' you about, a strange woman come here to town one night with a little boy; an' she goes to the hotel, sick, an' sends for Calliope.
Who in Friendship had not heard the name, and who, save one who keeps her own thoughts and forgets to give back greeting, would not on the instant have remembered it? Delia More's stepsister, Jennie Crapwell, had been betrothed to a carpenter of Friendship, and he was at work on their house when, a month before the wedding-day, Delia and that young carpenter had "run away."
Ma was allus sick an' me an' Big Lil she's the same floor combed her hair for her. But I could do it nicest. "Wan't that a curious happenin' an' Jennie Crapwell layin' dead with her hair drawn tight back because none of us could do it up human? "'Could you when dead? s'I. 'I mean when them that has the hair is? "An' with that the girl turns pallor white.
Things wasn't happy for Delia to home her mother, Mis' Crapwell, had married again to a man that kep' throwin' out about hevin' to be support to Delia; an' her stepsister, Jennie Crapwell, was sickly an' self-seekin' an' engaged all to once.
"But when I told her about Jennie Crapwell, an' how they had a good picture, City-made, of her side head, she took it quite calm. "'I'll try it, she says, bein' as she'd done her ma's hair layin' down, though livin'. 'Big Lil always helps dress 'Em, she says, 'an' guess I could do Their hair.
I've noticed that, often. "In the end we done what I'd favoured from the beginnin': We ask' Mis' Crapwell if we couldn't bury Jennie in her white mull. "'A shroud, says Mis' Crapwell, grievin', 'made by a dressmaker with buttons? "'It's the part o' Jennie that wore it before that'll wear it now, I says, reasonable, 'an' her soul never was buttoned into it anyways. An' it won't be now.
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