poor, and she, being, apparently, clever and
energetic, took to----"

"I know!" the professor interrupted.
"They all do it, when they are clever and
energetic, and that's the end of them!--
School-teaching!"

"Not at all," returned General Trednoke.
"She entered a dry-goods store."

"Entered a dry-goods store! Well,
there's nothing so extraordinary in that.
I've seen quantities of women do it, of all
ages, colors, and degrees. What did she
buy there?"

"Oh, a fiddlestick!" exclaimed the
general. "Why don't you keep quiet and
listen to my story? I say, she went into a
great dry-goods store in New York, as sales-
woman."

"Bless my soul! You don't mean a
shop-girl?"

"That's what I said, isn't it? And why
not?"

"Oh, well!--but, shade of Susan Brown!