"Very well. I'll see that it is done."
After this I made a number of calls, which occupied me until after one o'clock, when I turned my face homeward. On arriving, I was admitted by my new girl, and, as the thought of my beautiful bonnet now returned to my mind, my first words were:
"Has any thing been sent home for me, Anna?"
"Och! yis indade, mum," was her answer,—"lots o' things."
"Lots of things!" said I, with manifest surprise; for I only remembered at the moment my direction to the milliner to send home my bonnet.
"Yis, indade!" responded the girl. "Lots. And the mon brought 'em on the funniest whale barry ye iver seed."
"On a wheel barrow!"
"Yis. And such a whale barry! It had a whale on each side, as I'm a livin' sinner, mum and a cunnin' little whale in front, cocked 'way up intil the air, thot didn't touch nothin' at all—at all! There's no sich whale barrys as thot same in Ireland, me leddy!"
"And what did you do with the lots of things brought on this wheel barrow?" said I, now beginning to comprehend the girl.
"Put them on y'r bed, sure."