The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1891-08-03
CORRINA'S WEDDING.

rianna Dowly, Granther Peeks was jest
as mad as hops. You see, Co1ianna she
had kept house for grandther quite a
spell She wasn't overly young, and he
didn't want to spare her, she made such
nice griddle cakes.
He was very fond of griddle cakes
He hadn't teeth to eat nothing hard, and
she made 'em for him for breakfast, din
ner and supper. Sometimes she made
'em plain sometimes sweet. Sometimes
she rolled jell up into EN-. Sometimes
she put hash into 'em. They was a great
variety, and they was slways good. So
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, Coriauna could have done what
she was Il minter for all Granther Peeks;
for, as said, she was risen thirty. But
she was pious gal, and she felt as if
her granther's cuss would sort of blight
her, so she told Jabez she couldn't marry
him nohow until granther either died or
CIV in, only she wasn't able to help her
self from meetin' him after granther had
gone to bed-just where the punkin
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 follelei her one night, and
found EN- kissin' each other.
He was q real bad tempered old gen
tleInan, Granther Peel1s was, and when
he seen that he just up and cussed her
any way aad drove her home with his
stick like she was Il pig, after hitting
Jabez Chow over the head with it. ia
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'; "andnow 1t don't make no mat
ter what | do. Seein I'm cussed, I'll
jest marry Jabez Chow any way. What's
the use OF not doing it now?"
Well. Granther Peeks he felt he'd
made mistake and he kinder coaxed
her up while, and said he'l take the
cuss back, and got her to 90 70 bed quiet
But when she walked up nevt day mean
ing to run away and marry ,i0uz, she
found granther had been before her.
He'd nailed and locked and barred the
whole house up as il it was prison, and
left just 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 u 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 u pump in the
kitchen
"You don't mean to lock me up this
way for good, granther?' says Corianna
81 shall die of want of air and exercise
So will YOU"
81 guess kin stand it," says granther
"When you want fresh air you kin stick
your head ont of that there appychure in
the shutter and draw it in, and today
want pancakes with rawsberry jell into
UNI and lots of coffee. | worked real
hard last night putin up them fasten-
ms and | want stren'thenin', Corianna. y
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, seem
she was speakin 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 herselft
"Now | lay me" and Twinkle, twinkle.
little star" to keep back her nat'ral
wickedness. She'd shaved for that old
man and she'd been fond of him, and
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 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 ca1ryin' 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 or
open as he pleases, and to order his wim-
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 afterward,
and I'd hev the law on my side, tu"
Then he showed us u big hoss pistol, and
says he, 'lt's loaded" and we scattered
But | wrote on a piece of paper, "I'll tell
Jabez." and gave it up to Corianna, pre-
tendin' to kiss her good-by. And never
was | so thankful that oilers carried a
pencil i'll my pocket for new recipes.
For she needed comfort, and | guess
them words gave her little. | kept my
PROMISE and that night Jabez pranced
about the house. but couldn't get peep
at her. No IL, he couldn't for a cou-
pie of day IL. al last he thought of
tootin' through fish horn. If there was
anything G s.'-r Peeks liked it was
fish. So he says 20 Corianna, peek out,
Cory, and see eff that's shad; shad's in
season."