Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-03-20
Miscellany.
PEGGY'S PANDOWDY.

NA'AL, you take your apples" said
the culinary oracle, neighbor Kempton,
Peggy's uncle having decided that he
should relish an old-fashioned pandowdy,
such as his mother used TO make forty
years ago.
If you can make such a one," he had
said, IN give you gold ring, Peggy, as
tne as weddlng-rlng-as good wed
ding ring as you are like to get, poor
lass be had added beneath his breath ;
and so Peggy had applied to neighbor
kempton for the recipe.
"Na'al, you take your apples" repeat
ed Mrs kempton. BLESS me! amt that
there pot a-b'iling ovcr?r
No, " said Peggy; "it's only Nancy
dishing the cabbage"
"Wa'al, as l was a-saying, you take
your apples, and you There's Ben's
boat just a-cOming up the river, if live!
He went cat after mackerel this morning.
The tides dead ag'i him, and the dinner
done to turn Already
'And the pandowdy," meekly suggest
Cd Peggy.
ooh, as l was a-saying-my mind skips
about like flea; it goes by telegram, |
have so much to think of. But you take
your apples, and Sakes alive! if the
clothes-line amt broke and let the things
on to the ground, and fathers new flan-
nels-the first time they ever see the
wash, tool" And in the tumult that en-
sued Peggy effected her escape, feeling
fully competent to take the apples and go
ahead, after so many admoniuons to that
end. She next resOrted to the Cooks
Counselor, which advised her to line q
deep pan with paste, slice the apples,
sWeeten with New Orleans molasses, spice
n 10 fac en- tl,rn +l,
fact that tastes ditler), cover with paste,
and bake in moderate oven-brick oven
preferred.
On these hints Peggy proceeded. She
didn't care fig for the promise of a
ring. What was a gold ring to her set
with Jewels of Golconda, when, but for
her own folly and the malicious interfer-
cnce of another, she might now be wear
ing real wedding ring, the happiest
wife in Christendom? For when she had
first come to live with her uncle, John
Briefly, Matthew Royston had set his
heart upon her, and she had in no wise
objected, accepting his devotions as a
matter of course. But Aunt Briefly had
other views for Matthew Royston. She
had made up her mind to marry him to
her own niece, Patty Pratt; and when
Aunt Briefly had made up her mind, it
wasn't an easy thing to unravel If be
couldn't be managed by fair means, he
should be managed by foul And wasn't
all fair in love? She contrived TO arouse
Matthew's jealousy concerning another
admirer of Peggy's, and with sly and
subtle insinuations 10 harrow his soul
with fear lest he was being chosen by his
sweetheart not for himself, but his pros
poets. And yet her insinuations were so
well timed and so deftly handled that the
poor love-lorn youth conceived that they
were deductions drawn from his own ex-
perlence and observation, rather than
suggested by Aunt Briefly. SO one dav
he forbade Peggy, up and down, to ac-
Ccpt any attentions but his own, though
there was only an understanding between
them, which, as everybody knows, is apt
to lead TO a misunderstanding. He had
never said, in so many words, "Will you
marry me, Peggy or Name the day,
sweetheart though they both hoped it
would come to that in time.
80 Aunt Briefly sneered in her quiet
way at Peggy for being under a mans
thumb before her time came, limited that
she had found a master, if not q lover,
l0estloning if such things were done in
NE green leaf, what would be done in the
Gry, till poor foolish Peggy, giddy with
youth, and inexperienced in the ways of
My women, began to believe that
l.aCthew was arrogating to himself more
@H'horlty over her than was becoming in a
.''er-which was very likely the case
.- walked into the snare Aunt Brier-
. Lad spread for her. One day, as they
oSether, Sam Perrin was seen to
".Ie up with his new turnout.
ie has come to take you to drive"
s1d Aunt Briefly
..asan' shan't go" said Peggy, decidedly.
~ ~ course not" continued her aunt;
vorlSl3. TI3Lan advise you to such a step. 1t
he,:n. h..l De wise. A woman cannot
dlencen ~ 10ai 'he iessoh ol ooe-
i, isn,t ,,-aat ant go" protested Peggy. "But
cnce ' because I mean to learn obedi.