The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1884-07-10

So ne wheeled I'M and starched our yaller
bluffs SO stiff they'd stand alone, and
;ssironed ,em sick enough to see. your. face
il EN-, and we tuck the artificial off'n
01r last summer hats and stuck 3em Rhar
the SVerskirt was tucked mp ito one side,
andswai lacked fowiof cedar all around
$ fhe bottom of the frock and put "a piece
1 nnder our stpins! ard 81 piece in our
hair, aud e Wisht Yon could have saw us,
"a tell You we Was fxt. Aunt Nancy
lowed Gals, for all you do; don't OUT
shine lhe bride.
Buddy he hitched the steers in the
waggin and sot in the cheers, and ne ell
went, even to NAV. We went soon 80 as
to,help Malindy Jane fix, and bless you
whensHe got tharthe house and yard Was
plum full. They had been Q comm ever
4 sense i hour BY sun. / won't be sartin,
bnt L think everybody that come fetched
baby and q bench legged fee and q flop.
Esyeared hound: We'uns allers fastens
ssOld Scrougen and "Trip, = and. never
LET'S efra fol oller. 3 ! = ). 8 3
After i fxt the artifcials in the fashion
6n. Malindy James head and lent her my
neck:ribbin, tits good slrckf to marry in.
sump'n d torrid) ] taken g peep in the set.
TIM room to: see who all was thar, and
behold thar sot the Simmonses bigas who
but they, and / know in reason they
WASN'T axed nor wanted ]; and who should
ba hikedS up on 8 bench all in q row but
! ti,em tore down Freshours, chillun grand
AS You please, and still for the fust time
\ in they lives. and ther faces was rally so
clean T. didn't skacely know 'em. They
had shorely been put to soak the night
afore. Therskin WAS as shiny and slick
asa peeled ingon, aud ther har plastered
down tight with saf soap, and they
looked plum satis6ed. q
Overin the corner. a.sot the three old
maids, Miss Bunch Beasly, Miss Patience
Potter and ole Arminty Pendergrass.:
Miss Bunch is as broad as she's long and
as good asshe' 6 broad. Miss Patience
{ IS as long as q bean pole and as good as
q she's ngsand Is funny enough to- make
dog I'LL hissef q laughin'. She wears q
short frock Ito try to make her look short,
and all the colors of the rainbow to make
her look young. Pap lowed she looks like
Jossph's coat. Ole Arminty was q set
tin, right side of 'em. Now thar was
three old maids as different as the ele-
phant and the monkey and the tiger. So
folks needn' say old maids is all alike.
And widders lacks a heap of bein' all
alike, too. The widder Comings was
!: thar. and you Wonldn't have knowed she
Was q widder. But the widder McAllis.
tsr played fshin' for love, and put on a
Ssight Of airs. She tuck keer to let ever
:sbody know She picked the turkey and
b,aaked tie tatercustards and halfmoon
ssIiies.
Jake lie was the; last one to come. He
had his hesd drippin' with lard and
scented with cinnamon draps, and his
new shoes was so tight he couldn't skacely
{ walk. Iswonder if a feller ever got mar
RED without hayin' on tight boots or
shoes Z
Some town boys was out in the. entry
AZ giehn. Cal lowed if she'd "a been
Malindy Jane they shouldn't er been
axed, one Of 'em in perticklet, I disre-
member his name. She lowed he thought
kase he lived In town that was all he
needed. He had the enshorance olaugh.
atScountry boys with. ther homemade
leans, and all he was ftten fur was to
wear fine Sunday clothes that wasn't
! paid for. He strutted around mighty
bigoty and smoked and chawed terbacker,
and took his sweetened dram, tied his
crayat In tie fashion, pulled his mustache,
and tsaayed with his watchchain, and
Wheh9 she. laughed at them boys he
laughed at his betters: One good, honest,
hard workin' country boy like Ky Rob.
asrson, Gap Dewberry or Jake Loftis.is
worth enough of his sort to build a fence
from here to town.
Yes, everybody knowed when Jake got
1 thar by the cinnamon draps. Brother
Cole was axed to marry 'em, and as many
couples as he has joined he don't know
his piece; he had to read it, and they
/ kelt q candle and dript the taller a inch
thick on the POI old mans coatsleeve, and
then after ali he come nigh marryiu' 'ein
blythe wrong names.
Caledony and Ky Robertson stood to.
pether, and I and Cap Dewberry, and
When we tuck our stands. Malindy Jane
she got, ON tother side of Jake and Broth.
ar Cole he wiped his specs and sot in to
readin, and spellin' out his words.
..'The couple which now stands afore
ms for The occasion and benefit of being
lined in wediock, will please jiDe they
right hands,
Old Miss Patience Potter squeaked out
ina loud whisper:
"Lindy Jane, you air on the wrong
side of Jakey.
Then Brother Cole helt his paper up