The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-09-03
CORRINA'S WEDDING.

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spell She wasn't overly young. and b
didn't want to spare her, she made such
nice griddle cakes.
He was very fond of griddls cakes
He hadn't teeth to eat nothing hard, anG
she made EN- for him for breakfast, din
ner and supper.< Sometimes she mad,
'em plain, sometimes sweet. Sometimes
she rolled jell up into 'em. Sometime.
she put hash into 'em. They was grea'
variety, and they was always good *
when Jabez Chow purposed, and Cori
anna accepted him, granther said mo,
and said how he'd cuss her if she dis
obeyed him. -
Now, Corianna could have done what
she was minter for all Granther Peeks
for, as said, she was risen thirty. But
she was pious gal, and she felt as il
her granther's ouss would sort of blight
her, so she told JabeZ she couldn't marry
him nohow until granther either died OF
CIV in, only she wasn't able to help her
self from meetin' him after granther had
gone to bed-just where the punhr
patch jined onter the blueberry medder,
and the old popler grew. Well, some
mean sneak or other went and told
granther about it, and he got up out Of
his bed and follered her one night, and
found 'em hssin' each other.
He was READ bad tempered old gen.
tleman, Granther Peeks was, and when
he seen that he just up and cussed her
any way and drove her homo with his
stick like she was pig, after hitting
Jabez Chow over the head with it. Ja-
bez didn't burst hit back on account of
his age, and granther knew he wouldn't.
Home he drove Corianna, and when he
got her to hum there was the old boy to
pay, you may be sure. Corianna was
sobbing as eff her heart would break.
"You cussed me, granther," she kept
a-sayin'; land now it don't make no mat
jest marry Jabez Chow any way. What's
the use of not doing it nOwY'
Well, Granther Peeks he felt he'd
made mistake and he kinder coaxed
her up a while, and said he'd take the
cuss back, and got her to go to bedquiet.
But when she walked up next day, mean
ing to run away and marry Jabez, she
found granther had been before her.
He'd nailed and locked and barred the
whole house up as if it was a prison, and
left just a little hole in the kitchen
shutter for her to see to cook by. The
front door he kept the key of in his
pocket, and he was grinning like mon
key TO see how smart he'd been.
Il guess we won't have any more
meetin's by moonlight, my dear" says
he, sardonic and unpleasant as ever
could be. When stores is needed I'll
go out, and you've got a pump in the
kitchen"
''You don't mean to lock me up this
way for good, grsnther?" says Corianna
II shall die of want of air and exercise
IS Will you"
81 guess I kin stand it" says granther.
"When you want fresh air you kin stick
your head out of that there appychure in
the shutter and draw it in, and today /
want pancakes with rawsberry jel into
um and lots of coffee. worked real
hard last night putin up them fasten-
ms and | want siren thenin', Corianna" +"
She jest looked at him when he said that.
She didn't burst trust herself to say
nothin' She had ideas that she was
skeerful of putin into language, see'n
she was speallin' to her mas pa, and, he
risin' eighty. But all she got by that
was these here cruel words:
Don't google at me, Corianna. It's
worse than sassin."
So while she was a-fryin' the cakes she
kept sayin' over and over to herself:
"Now lay me, " and Twinkle. twinkle,
little star" to keep back her nat'ral
wickedness. She'd slaved for that old
man and she'd been fond of him, and
this is what had come of it. She told us
all this through the hole in the shutter
We got kinder scared, you know, seein'
the house shut up, and went to call, but
didn't get let in; but arter while, when
we'd knocked and knocked a spell to the
front door and the side door, we went
round to the back, and there was poor
Coriannas face a-stickin' out of the hole
in the shutter. The tears rolled down
her cheeks as she told US the story, and
we had to cry, too, me and Miss Pinney,
and Miss Peters and Maria Brown
Maria Brown she was just proposin'
breakin' down the door and carryin' poor
Corianna off when a upstairs shutter
opened and Granther Peeks poked his
head out.
"See here, folkses," said he, "a man
has right to keep his house shet OK
open as he pleases, and to order his win
min folks as he sees fittin'. You tech
bolt, or bar, or lock, or hook on my prem
ises, and I'll shoot you down fust and
have you took up for burglars sfterward,
and I'd hev the law ON my side, tu."
Then he showed Us big hoss pistol, and
says he, Its loaded" and we scattered.
But wrote on a piece of paper, "Fn tell
Jsbez," and gave it up to Oorisnna, pre-
tendin' to kiss her good-by. And never
was l 30 thankful that oilers carried q
pencil in my pocket for new recipes.
For she needed comfort, and l guess
them words gave her little. l kept my
promise, and that night Jabez pranced
about the house, but couldn't get peep
at her. No more he couldn't for a cou-
pie of days. But at last he thought of
tootin' through fish horn. If there was
anything Granther Peeks liked it was
fish. So he says TO Corianns, Peek out,
Cory. and see ef that's shAd; shsd's in
season"
So Cory poked her head out Of the
hole and saw Jsbez BLOWN the horn,
and as soon as be saw her he up and