Identifier: ladieshomejourna65janwyet (find matches)
Title: The Ladies' home journal
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Wyeth, N. C. (Newell Convers), 1882-1945
Subjects: Women's periodicals Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive
Publisher: Philadelphia : (s.n.)
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by stretching a little
to fetch up the hat, heavy and dripping, fron
the bottom of the aquarium. He held the
hat toward Edie, who without a word too
lit. Then Mr. Carmichael handed the ladle
back to its owner. "I'll pay ten dollars."
"Twenty-five," said the fish-grotto pro-
prietor. "Not a cent less. Those were fancy
fish and not to be picked up every day in thebweek."
"Eleven," said Mr. Carmichael.
"I was fond of those fish," said the
owner. "They were pets, so to speak
"Eleven-fifty," said Mr. Carmichael.
"It was cruelty to animals, putting that
hat in with them. I could turn you in to turn to the
S.P.C.A."
"Twelve," said Mr. Carmichael.
They settled for fifteen, Mr. Carmichae
getting the fish.

Edie, the hat, and the fish, in an oversized
kettle loaned by the fishman, occupied the
back of the car on the trip home. It was a
slow trip because speed tended to slosh the
water in the kettle together with a fish or
two, out onto the floor. It was a silent trip
because Edie was thinking, and because
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