Making Over Martha

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MAKING OVER MARTHA
JULIE M. LIPPMANN
AUTHOR OF MARTHA BY-THE-DAY, MARTHA AND CUPID
NEW YORK GROSSET & DUNLAP PUBLISHERS
COPYRIGHT, 1913, BY HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY
Published October, 1913 Reprinted November (twice), December, 1913 May, August, October, 1914 October, 1915
MAKING OVER MARTHA
CHAPTER I
Martha Slawson sat at her sewing-machine, stitching away for dear life. About her, billowed yards upon yards of white cotton cloth, which, in its uncut length, shifted, as she worked, almost imperceptibly piling up a snowy drift in front of her, drawn from the snowy drift behind. This gradual ebb and flow was all that marked any progress in her labor, and her husband, coming in after some hours of absence and finding her, apparently, precisely where he had left her, was moved to ask what manner of garment she was making.
'Tain't a garment at all, Sam. It's a motta.
A motto? Sam fairly gasped.