SALLY’S EVOLUTION.
When the old farmer’s daughter first left her good old country home, with its quiet simple ways, for a year in a fashionable hoarding-school, she signed her name “ Sarah Jane Smith,” and took no offence at being called “ Sally.” Three months later a letter came home signed “ Sadie J. Smith.” Six months elapsed, and she had become “S. Janie Smithe.” Time rolled on, bx’inging its wonderful changes, and when the June came she blossomed forth as “ S. Jeannie Smythe.” Then her father hitched the old blind horse to the vegetable cart, and said: “ I’m going to bring that there Sal home, and let ’er know that she can’t bring ojeum on the good old name of Smith by ringin’ in any more ‘ y ’ and ‘e ’ changes on it. There can’t nobody say a word o’ harm agin’ my branch of the Smith family. I’m proud o’ it, an’ glad I’m one of ’em. I reckon a month of hard work in the tater-time T 1 let Sary Jane know that ‘J-a-n-e’ don’t spell no ‘Jeannie.’ ”
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Southern Cross, Volume 1, Issue 7, 13 May 1893, Page 10
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177SALLY’S EVOLUTION. Southern Cross, Volume 1, Issue 7, 13 May 1893, Page 10
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