Beautiful Hortense.
Reading edition
Miss Hortense is working a Beautiful Piece of Embroidery. It is a Motto in Green and Gold. It asks What is Home without a Mother. When Miss Hortense gets it Done, she will Give it to her Beau, who Tends a Dry Goods counter. You cannot see Miss Hortense’s Mother. She is in the Back Yard doing the Week’s Washing. By and by she will be Bringing in Coal for the Parlor Stove, because Miss Hortense’s beau is Coming to-night.
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