Of course there's lights
when the blacks don't all look the same; still, unless you got close up
you wouldn't notice it, an' Minnie Coffin keeps on settin' the styles
for the town like she always has."
The narrator paused for breath.
"She's makin' it over again right now," she announced, rising from her
chair and moving toward the pantry. "You can always tell when she is
'cause she pulls down all her front curtains an' won't come to the door
when folks knock. The shades was down when Abbie an' me drove by there
last week an' to make sure Abbie got out an' tapped to' see if
anybody'd come to let us in, but nobody did. We said then: '_Minnie's
resurrectin' the black satin_.' You mark my words she'll be in church
in it Sunday. It generally takes her about ten days to get it done. I
was expectin' she'd give it another overhauling, for she ain't done
nothin' to it for three months at least an' the styles have changed
quite a little in that time. Sometimes I tell Willie I believe we'll
live to see her laid out in that dress yet.
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