The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-04-16

u~ncIe's, worn ut Lundy's Lane, and
though Uncle Ephralm q u big man,
! Mesback had all he could do to man
age the bucEskins. BuCkskin's the rig
for a soldier, no pantaloons Hopping
about them.'
The maid smiled demUrely, while the
captain slyIy nudged Mrs. Pellet on
her puCkered sleeve and gave her HCute
and knowing wink. The maid ObserV-
ed this pantOmime, and who can tell
what contradiction Of nature it was
that led her to look more steadily at
Shad because they pointed out Sheds
gNllantry to her?
When at noon the militia broke
ranks for an hour Of rest and cider
brandy. Shadrach. in a cooked hat,
with a rOsette and q shadbellied coat,
| with faded buff facings that had done
service in '12, made his way quickly
to the tUssOck upon which sat
Miss Jerusha Pellet, and when she
looked at him Shad perceived that at
last JeruSha knew her mind. And
when Shed came a moment later seek
ing her, he perceived that she glanced
sighting at his pastebOard hussar
| cap, with q faded red ball upon it, and
especially disdained his buff buckskIns
and it alarmed him. But he deter
mined that he would show his PROV
ess with the big cannon at the artil-
lery drill in the afternoon. So when
the big gun that had done service in
two wars was brought out, and the in
fantry became artillery, Shed rammed
home with mighty thrusts, furtively
looking at the maid when be finished,
and stood erect and daringly near the
muzzIe with the ramrod held up
right. But r. saw that it was not at
him that J .:asha looked, but upon
Shad, standing, with the vanity ofsuc-
cess, at the vent and. applying thered-
hot poker with what was meant to be
most military grace, and when the re-
port came with a great reverberatiOn
Shed saw Shad exchanging @ greeting
through the rising smoke with the
plump little maid beyond.
And that night Shed called Shad
aside and said to him:
She's decided to-day. It's you,
Shad."
81 couldn't help it, Shed"
at was your regimentals, Shad.
Father would make ne wearthe buck
skins"
So it happened that when the June
roses were in bloom and the cherries
were ripe Shadrach and Jerusha were
married.
Had Captain Amzi remained longer
on earth perhaps Shad would have
been spared some trials that he had
speedily met. But the Captain'sday
were soon numbered, and Shed, hav-
ing departed to another place, the old
Platt homestead was dreary and des-
olate. But Shad found his trial in the
Widow Pellet.
Shad was a very patient man, SO
much so that Captain Amzi had often
been perplexed respecting his NAME,
wondering whether it would have been
wiser to have named the boy Job.
And being very patient he had of
course, great persistenCy, which, by
reason of his meek manner, the widow
and his wife did not suspect.
So it happened that Shad, being in
deed previously beset by the widow,
determined that sooner or later he
would deprive himself'and Jerusha of
her society. So when the widow up
braided him, as was her daily wont,
with all manner of faults, Shad meek
ly bent his head and received her YER
bal lashes, thinking the while some
good means would come by which he
would peaceably overcome her.
All the people of the village wonder
ed at the meekness displayed by Shad,
and the report of his trials having
reached Shed, he wrote Shad a letter,
saying that "no six-foot man ought
to be henpecked by amother-in-law.r
Shad patiently endured these things,
and went his way.
One morning the Widow Pellet said
to him: "You Platts are a fine lot.
There's no more snap to you than to
a toadstool; q fine lot you are"
And Shad with meekness, replied:
eyes, all fine; some finer than 9TH
ers. but all fine; yes, all fine"
"Do you hear that, Jerusha, in my
own house, and him that Encouraged
to have you, answers me back with
impudence? Don't you see how cruel
he is?"
Eyes, / have heard it, mother. Do
you suppose, Shad Platt, that I'd a
turned Shed away If I'd dreamt you
were going to be cruel to mother and
me. You hurt our feelings every day.
You don't seem to realize what a fine
woman my mother Is, and to have no
idea what q fine family you married
into"
Yes said Shad, gently, call fine.
Some finer than Others, but all fine;
yes, all fine"
'sThere it is again, Jerusha. How
much longer are you going to stan
such contradiction and impudence?'''