The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-07-25
A GEORGE HEBDIhG.
Society . ztfs IA tils Biaokwoods-Bst
sy Hamilton's Neighbors.

Irotman, ana was q nltclln OF lis ria
in nag up at our house; but they didn'
know that when Jake's critter was
chawin' of our fence, Malindy Jare wa
inginnerly in the house.
The Trotmans is not the sort that
sounds a horn and tells they business tC
everybody, and for that very reason
some folks tries to find out Their affairs,
Malindy Jane she KEEP her sowin' hid
and never let none of the neighbor gals
but me and Caledony see it, and Jake
he got so he taken the nigh cut, and
gin old Miss Freshours and old Arminty
the dodge when he went to see her, and
they sot 1t down that he had quit gwine,
and that it was all busted up betwixt
EN-, or, "Mebbe," says cid Arminty,
''atter all he hain't never co'ted the
gall"
But when the Trotmans let in to
whitewashin' ther house and fence, and
then let in on the trees around the
house, they knowed in reason it meant
a weddin'; but thar wasn't nothin' like
fndin' out for sartin. So Arminty
tuck it on hersef to go owe thar and
stay the live long day. She limited and
limited, hut all she gethered from Ma
Indy James nav was that the dock
lowed lime was healthy.
Caledony was a tellin' it at our house.
and she lowed that when granmammy
Eve was a leavin' so much cu'osity TO ole
Arminty she never forgot ole Miss Trot-
man. She left her sense enough to
come ahead of her. They didn't only
whitewash, but they secured and fix up
tel they didn't skasely know they own
place, but Malindy Jane was the onliest
gal the old folks had and she didn't git
married every day.
To he sho if they'd had ther. own ses-
30 about Jake LOFTS; but WHOM oil the
land could they have picked out for a
husband for the gal, Malindy Jane?
The day was sot, and she axed me
and Caledony to wait on her. Cal she
came over to house and we all went
together. She fetched her yaller buff
muslin mines offn the same piece) and
lowed me and her could fix and dress
alike. So we wheeled in and starched
u yaller bluffs so stiff they'd stand
alone, and ironed 'em slick enough to
see your face in 'em, and we tuck the
artificial off'n our last summer hats, and
stuck EN- whar the overskirt was tucked
up to one side, and we tackled a row of
cedar all around the bottom of the
frock and put a piece under our breast
pins and a piece in our hair, and I wish
you could have saw us-I tell You we
was fixt. Aunt Nancy lowed: "Gals,
for all you do, don't outshine the bride"
Buddy he hitched the steers in the
Vaughn and sot In the cheers, and we all
went, even to NAV. We went soon so
to hep Malindy Jane fix, and bless you
when we got thar, the house and yard
was plum full. / won't be sartin but, I
think everybody that come fetched a
baby and q bench-legged fee and a flop
yeared hound. We'uns alters fastens
"Old Scrouge' and "Trip" and never
let's EN- folIer.
After / fix the artificials in the fashion
Malindy James head and lent her
my neck-ribbin, tits good luck to marry
In sump'n borrid) why | taken a peep in
the settin' room TO see who all was thar
and behold thar sot the Simmonses big
as who but they, and I know IN reason
they wasn't axed nor wanted; and who
should be liked up on a bench all in q
row, but them &ore-down Freshours'
chillun grand as ou please, and still for
the fust time in they lives, and their
faces was rally so clean I dimi't skasely
know EN-. They had shoreIy been put
to soak the night afore. Their skin was
shiny and slick as a peeled ingon, and
ther har plastered down tight with aaff
soap, and they look plum satisfied.
Over In the cornder sot the three old
maids, Miss Bunch Beasley, Miss Patti
Snea Potter and ole Miss Arminty Prem
dergrass. Miss Bunch IS as broad as she's
long. and as good as she's broad. Miss
Patience is as long as 3 bean pole and a.
good as she's long and is funny enough to
make 4 dog kill his-sef a laughin'. She
wears q short frock to try to make her
look short, and all the colcrs Of II hs
rainbow To make her look young. Pap
lows she looks like Joseph's coat. Ole
Arminty was a seftin' right side Of 'em.
Nov thar was three old maids as differ
emit as the elephant and the monkey
and the tiger. So folks needn't say old
maids is all alike. And widders lacks
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