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A few of our ladies bred to a more
fastidious taste bought their best
bonnets at Mrs. Osborn's in N[orthampton]
sometimes venturing as high a price as
six dollars enamoured of the foreign touch
These were carefully packed in the
large really huge band boxes of those days - of high
colored paper ornamented with most
daring tropical scenes and exagger-
ated flowers unknown to any botany
These were carefully committed to the
incessant? care of Brown the always
driver of the daily four horse stage
coach between A & N. Leaving quite
early in the morning and bringing up
with cracking whip in front of the
PO promptly at 5 P.M. He delivered
these boxes with a positively tender touch
unrewarded by the scenes behind closed
fastidious taste bought their best
bonnets at Mrs. Osborn's in N[orthampton]
sometimes venturing as high a price as
six dollars enamoured of the foreign touch
These were carefully packed in the
colored paper ornamented with most
ated flowers unknown to any botany
These were carefully committed to the
incessant? care of Brown the always
driver of the daily four horse stage
coach between A & N. Leaving quite
early in the morning and bringing up
with cracking whip in front of the
PO promptly at 5 P.M. He delivered
these boxes with a positively tender touch
unrewarded by the scenes behind closed
