JUST LIKE AUNT BANGER. 127
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sexicing, by solemn vows, their expenditure in dress to a fixed
‘and very moderate sum. All the pin-money they save by the
means goes to the Pope.”
fF Oh!” said Rye, blankly. If she had not been a. little
Y Phitestgnt Yankee girl, who did not even know what “ pin-
oe money eant, to say nothing of never having owned but
three dollars and sixty cents in her life (and that she spent
: on skates), she might have felt more instructed by Aunt
Banger’s illustration.

“When I was fourteen years old,” said Aunt Banger again
to the ceiling, “leg-o’-mutton sleeves came in.. Now your
Aunt Polly Maria and I didn’t like leg-o’-mutton sleeves.
‘When I turn Second Adventist and get ready to fly, Ill
wear them, not before,’ said Polly Maria. ‘Exactly!’
said I. But we’ve no more mind to be stared at for not
knowing enough to know the fashions than you have, Trim
Dash. What do we do? We go round with a paper,” said
Aunt Banger, solemnly.

“ Go round with a paper!”

“ Polly Maria drew a leg-o’-mutton on it, and I carriéd it
round. There were just twenty-five girls in that town signed
it, and they never wore a leg-o’-mutton sleeve, as far as I
know, till the day they died. So there was a crowd of us,
and who cared? It was the leg-o’-muttons that got stared
at, I can tell you!”

“Dear me!” said Rye, “I didn’t know anybody ever
really did that. I should think it would take a great deal of
—- of — presence of mind.”