After a time, though, that seemed rather an uninteresting purchase.

All her money would be gone at once, and almost before she had realised that she had got it.
She next decided to get a large piece of bacon, two sacks of coal, and a sack of corn for the fowls; but this plan was changed again for others.

Every day Huldah thought out some new and delightful purchases, and what she would have bought finally nobody knows, for Miss Rose and Mrs.Perry put an end to all her schemes, by insisting that the money was to be spent on herself.

She was to buy a new winter coat for herself, they decided, and Huldah had to give in.
She was bitterly disappointed at first; it had never entered her head to spend her money on anyone but Mrs.Perry, it was for her only that she had wanted it.
Autumn was well advanced now, the mornings and nights were cold, and the days not really hot, and Huldah soon began to realise that she did need a warm garment of some sort, for she had only her thin print frocks, and a little shoulder shawl that Mrs.Perry had given her.
So, as soon as she had got her nine shillings in her pocket, Miss Rose came with the pony-cart and drove her in to Belmouth to hunt through the shops in search of a coat or a cloak which would not cost more than nine shillings, and at the same time be neat and warm, and--at least, so Huldah hoped,--pretty.
Such a day as that was to Huldah! Such a day as had never come into her life before.

First of all there was the drive, four whole miles with Miss Rose in her dear little pony-carriage, and actually wearing one of Miss Rose's old golf cloaks wrapped snugly round her.