"Oh I'm so glad Sally's gone, for now we shall have the full particulars;" and again we waited as impatiently for Sally's return as we had once done before for grandma.
At last, to our great relief, the green ribbons and blue shawl were descried in the distance, and ere long Sally was with us, ejaculating, "Oh, my--mercy me!" etc., thus giving us an inkling of what was to follow.

"Of all the sights that ever I have seen," said she, folding up the blue shawl, and smoothing down the pink calico.

"There's carpeting enough to cover every crack and crevice--all pure bristles, too!" Here I tittered, whereupon Sally angrily retorted, that "she guessed she knew how to talk proper, if she hadn't studied grarmar." "Never mind," said Anna, "go on; brussels carpeting and what else ?" "Mercy knows what else," answered Sally.

"I can't begin to guess the names of half the things.

There's mahogany, rosewood, and marble fixin's--and in Miss Gilbert's room there's lace curtains and silk damson ones--" A look from Anna restrained me this time, and Sally continued.
"Mercy Jenkins is there, helpin', and she says Mr.Gilbert told 'em, his wife never et a piece of salt pork in her life, and knew no more how bread was made than a child two years old." "What a simple critter she must be," said grandma, while Anna asked if she saw Mrs.Gilbert, and if that tall girl was her daughter.
"Yes, I seen her," answered Sally, "and I guess she's weakly, for the minit she got into the house she lay down on the sofa, which Mr.
Gilbert says cost seventy-five dollars.