This was sensational enough--that the things should be thought worth shipping about the country with freights so high.
But after a few weeks came tales that atrophied belief--tales corroborated by a printed catalogue and by certain deposits of money in our bank to the account of Miss Caroline.

That six wretched chairs, plain to ugliness, had sold for three hundred dollars spread consternation.

The plain old sideboard for a hundred and ten dollars only fed the flames.

But there had been sold what the catalogue described as "A Colonial sofa with carved dolphin arms, winged claw feet, and carved back" for two hundred and ten dollars, and after that the emotions aroused in Little Arcady were difficult to classify.

Upon that very sofa most of the ladies of Little Arcady had sat to pity Miss Caroline for being "lumbered" with it.