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tice, was an adept in store-keeping,
and who, from a close examination
into her husband’s affairs, found it
necessary to engage in some busi-
ness, decided that the better way
would be to keep open the old store,
adding thereto a more extensive va-
riety of fancy goods, which were to
be tastefully arranged on a side re-
mote from the tea, coffee, sugar, mo-
lasses, nails, crackers, jack-knives,
&e., &c. The two young ladies, He-
len Ann Janette Maria and Martha
Jane Amelia, were to superintend
this department; the other was to be
under Mrs. Wingate’s supervision ;
the drudgery of both was to be per-
‘formed by Laura.

This, to our little girl, was a new
and severe trial; not that she was
averse to labor, but her want of a