Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1870-09-09
DELAWARE, OHIO, FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 9, 1870

with a long face. - You know Won have
such a hankering after news and sI1eb
sight Of curiosity, we thought we'd
/ give you q little start"
Il hain't no more curiosity than
other folks, +" cried Aunt Prissy. firing
up; land guess I mind my own az
fairs as stiddy as you do" And with
that she rushed into her bedroom. and
banged to the door, and showed her
/ bureau against it, and got into bed
with her shoes and cap On, a thing she
had never done bsfore in the
whole course of her Hfes That after
noon everybody came to the door and
begged her to relent. Asa who truly
loved the old woman, almost went
down on his knees to her; but her
pride had been too deeply wounded to
be easily salved over. That evening
she did shove her bureau just far
enough aside to take a cupof tea from
the hand Of her sister=in-law, and that
was all.
The next morning, which was bright
and breezy, q great hustle early arose
in the house; and she knew that all
hands were getting ready to go to
Asa's wedding. She could hear Asa
himself tramping about overhead and
putting on those new clothes; and al
though he was immenselys happy and
busy, he did find time to come and ex-
ecute one last series oftriumphs on the
old lady's door,
"Come, Auntie, don't hold grudae
against a fellow" he coaxed. "Do
come over to the wedding. You al
ways said you would dance at my
wedding, and now you're going to
give me the cold shoulder. It's too
confounded bad"
Not word did she answer, although
her heart Ghumped hard and fast. By
and by Mrs. Babbett was dressed in
her black silk, and atastefuI cap, trim
med with pink bows; and UncIe Ben
had shaved, and donned aclean dickey,
and braced his neck with satin stock,
and poked his hair up very high in
front; and then they all went off, and
left the house solitary and alone.
Aunt Prissy began to feel very forlorm
and more aggrieYed than ever. She
got up, pushed the bureau away, and
stole out into the sitting-room in her
double gown and list shoes, and peeped
forth from the little cornering win
dow. There was music playing, and
the neighbors' girls were dotting the
green dooryard with their light dress
es. She thought, with a kind of dumb
swelling of the heart, that her boy was
being married over there: and she, his
old. doting, fond Aunt, was staying
away in a fit of the suIks. WhY
should she bite off her nose to spite
her face? They probably wouldn't
miss her at all; but she had halfa mind
to dress up and walk over, just for the
world as if nothing had happened.
Accordingly the old lady slipped on
her tabinet gown, and donned her
gold beads, and an amazing head-dress
belonging to the last century; and, Just
as Elder Halleck was performing the
ceremony of the double wedding, with
the brides looking as sweet as twin
resebuds, who should walk in but
Aunt Prissys for all the world, as
Uncle Ben expressed it. 'tas stiff as
buckrurn, - 3--s
They had a good, old-fashioned,
merry time; and Aunt Prissy actually
danced under rthe waving apple -boughs
with Uncle sAbner; and Asa put up the
old gentleman to give her hearty
smack, which caused her to blush and
bride good deal, though I rather
think she liked it.
''Win Aunt Prissy ever get recon
eiled to the match2'' whispered Deacon
Dents wife to Mrs. Babbett.
Law, yes. Now Sophy has ceased
to be one of those Jerome girls, and
has become Asa's wife, the old lady
will think her perfection"