CHAPTER IX.
THE NEW BONNET.
The next morning, for a wonder.

Jenny Lincoln was up before the sun, and in the large dark closet which adjoined her sleeping room, she rummaged through band-boxes and on the top shelves until she found and brought to light a straw hat, which was new the fall before, but which her mother had decided unfit to appear again in the city.

Jenny had heard the unkind remarks which Mary's odd-looking bonnet elicited, and she now determined to give her this one, though she did not dare to do so without her mother's consent.

So after breakfast, when her mother was seated at her work in the parlor, Jenny drew near, making known her request, and asking permission to carry the bonnet to Mary herself.
"Mercy on me!" said Mrs.Lincoln, "what won't you think of next, and where did you get such vulgar taste.

It must have been from your father, for I am sure you never took it from me.