'I shall soon have arranged all, and then I can take her downstairs again.' "I was standing on the landing by my father by this time, and, far from loth to discover what my grandmother was about, I followed him upstairs.
You have no idea, children, what a curious sight met me! My grandmother, who was a very little woman, was perched upon a high stool, hanging up on a great clothes-horse ever so many dresses, which she had evidently taken out of a wardrobe, close by, whose doors were wide open.

There were several clothes-horses in the room, all more or less loaded with garments,--and oh, what queer, quaint garments some of them were! The clothes my grandmother herself had on--even those I was wearing--would seem curious enough to you if you could see them now,--but when I tell you that of those she was hanging out, many had belonged to _her_ grandmother, and mother, and aunts, and great-aunts, you can fancy what a wonderful array there was.

Her own wedding-dress was among them, and all the coloured silks and satins she had possessed before her widowhood.

And more wonderful even than the dresses were a few, not very many, for indeed no room or wardrobe would have held _very_ many, bonnets, or 'hats,' as I think they were then always called.

Huge towering constructions, with feathers sticking straight up on the top, like the pictures of Cinderella's sisters in old-fashioned fairy-tale books--so enormous that any ordinary human head must have been lost in their depths." "Did you ever try one on, grandmother ?" said Molly.
Grandmother shook her head.
"I should not have been allowed to take such a liberty," she said.