The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1882-05-25
Sister Patsy,s Wedding.

was goin to marry Seth Coggins.-
We was all proud of her marryin so aris
tocratic, for Seth's pa keeps store a
Wilcox station oD the railroad aud nav
and pap determent to Civ her rail blow
out al her weddin'. We had n set ol
Howery crockery and pap had put new
shed-rOom into the house, and wc had slS
chickens and turkey gobbler up in the
coop go fat they could hardly waddle, LEI
alone 'possem in the barrel what we'd
been feedin' on sweetI ertaters till he
looked like ball. So we was mighty
well fixed to give wedln'.
Their was one t.ouble tho. Pap WAS in
the habits Nv drinkin' whenever ther vas
any big thing goin' on; he's as sober rs
ledge only then, but forth er Julys and
thanksgivins, and Chrismussis, an camp
mectins, and such onusual times, he was
sure to git up sot in his principles. But
nav she talked to him about bchayyicr
Mt the weddin', and lie promist he'd do all
right, and we all agreed TO keep er eye
on him SOS he wouldn't git to whisky.
Well, the weddin' night come. We'd
been cookin' cake and tater custards nigh
on to week, and let you know the ia
bic did look butiful. We'd baked the
'possum whole and stood him up in gran
ny's big blue ilowerdy dish, with n red
apple atween his teeth and string Of
saBscngcrs around his neck He looked
lovely. Then we had baked turkey and
chicken pie as big round as bushel
basket and floatin' island, and jam, an
tater custards till you couldn't rest In
the middle we had big blue pitcher full
or eyergreens with mock oranges tied on
to 'em. / made the oranges myself outcn
balls NV cotton smeared over with yaller
Nv egg they looked natrall as you ever
Gee.
Well, the rooms was all dressed off in
greens and the barth was white as snow,
and the candle stands was nailed all
round the walls with whole home made
candle stuck in every one.
Sister Patsy was up stairs in the loft
room drcssin her and Cousin Sally
SpYiggs, who was to be the second brides
maid, aad The two young gurls what was
TO be candle.bearers. We could hear em
gigglin all the time, as nav and me was
standin' in the company room takin' a
snrvay Of things before the foxes come.
Bimeby we heard somebody hollern.
Hello Nance, you think your powerful
fine," and there was pap leanin' gnst the
door, with his nose rs red as termattus,
m his hat all banged in. He'd got to
whisky somehow, and ther he was in fine
weddin' trim. He laft and hollered and
danced nav roun' the room till he fell
fiat, and ther he lay, too tight to git on
his feet agin.
What on the yearth was VIC to do with
him? He'd disgraced us sho. We was
looking ever minnit for Seth's stylish
mother an sister to drive up, and all the
tother folks we had invited.
Invent out to the work shed WHARF bud
dy was fxin the legs to one er the supper
table benches, and said to him:
"The games up, pap's got to whisky,
and he's jes holferin tight" ~ heern
him." ses he, "and mo and cousin Zeke
WAS studyin' what to do, and I says fi,s.
sen him up in the stable. I'll sprinkle
clean STRAW NIL over the floor and put 6
big pile in one corner for him TO flop
over or. 'All right" says I, "if you
can gi' i'm in ther But for Lords sake
make lM.ste, folks'll be here afore you can
say Jack Robinson"
Well, by threaten and Coaxin and drag
GIN, they got pap in tho stable and gin
him his bottle an fassened him up by
putin a punchen agin the door. We
could hearshim whickorin' in their like
horse, an kickin' the stable do, but
bime by he was still, and had jes said
thank gracious! ! when up drove ole Mr..
and Miss Coggins, and Alamedy Coggins
In sky blue silk dress full 'er rutlles. an
o necklace roun' her throat rs big ns 'er
trace chain.
They got out Nv thar carryall with
high an nifty mir, but could sec plain
enuG when they walked into the compa-
ny room, they was tuck back at seein' how
cityfied ever thing looked.
The folks begun to pour in fast, an me
ar Alamedy Coggins went up stairs, for
we was brides maids Seth, he come
along with his walters, and they sont to
tell us the preacher was waitin'. We was n
pretty sight when we filed into tho room.
Meek Rory and Flurridy Brown went
fust, carryin' candles in tall brass candle
eticks, and the walters come next. had
on my bran new white lawn an pink
ribbins. Sister Patsy's dress was q white
switch muslin, all flounccd, and she wore
white orange artifshal in her hair.
saw by cverybody's looks that we was
maxim grand impreshun and sustainin'
ourselves as the big bugs of the neigh
borhood
But cur pride got tuck down the nax
minnit. We taken our places before the
preacher, an he had jes clar'd his throtc
and fixed his spex, when We hearn er. aw-
full whickerin' outside tl.a do, an in come
pap on his all-fours. We was 80 dumb
founded we couldn't do thing, and pap
ijes pranced roun' the room, aud cavorted
aroun' where nav was n sittin' with
Miss Coggius, ,whickerir' an klckin,
up his heels, Then he stopped in front
Nv the proacher,and such .brayin, rs
you never heard in your life. You'd al
thought dozen donkeys was tryin,, to
out-do one,another. was that m mortified
I dropped OH the floor, and Miss Coggins
went off into Mysteries, and sister Patsy
burst out cryin'. Buddy and Seth toted
pap out, kickiD, and brayin' all the
slime, and we burnt feathers under Miss
Coggins nose to bring her to hersc.f but
it was er full haf hour before things got
strait enuff for the weddin' to 60 on; an
then it peared to me like the artifshal
toolip in Maw's cap, was wilted like n
frost bit tater vine. She didn't hole her
he'd nigh as high as she did at fust; not
even when we went into supper and the
company oil taxed on so over the looks
of the table--the rows uvscakes an Gus.
tards an the tasty way the possum was
drest of.-Nancy Longshorc in the South
ern World.
g. Trade between Germany and The
United States is rapidly increasing. The
exports to the country for the quarter
ending the lac. of March were about
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