Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-11-26
Relations by Marriage.
BY AMY RANDOLPH.

Everybody went 10 famela Iepper
wedding. 1t was quite natural that they
should. Miss Pepper was as well known
in Cornstalk Corners as the old town
clock itself on the steeple of the Metho-
dist Westinghouse. She had made
IsS~vos ~ s-;na,nad hnnnats there. for
more wears than she cared to remember.
She was gossip-in-gencral, prime mover
in all the tea-parties, quilting-bees and
upple-butter frolics, head of the charit-
able and religious societies and chief
chronicler of all the dates in regard to
births, deaths and marriages. She knew
what everybody said to everybody else,
what Mrs. Meuth gave for her new seal
skin cloak and in how many weeks MIR.
Luckless's farm would be foreclosed on.
She was quite an fat as to every house
hold quarrel, all the family skeletons and
score of motives for each action, which
no one else would have dreamed Of. No
story was quite complete unless Miss
Pamela Peppers version of it had been
heard. And if people didn't know their
own speeches after they had been
through the mediumship of Miss Pamelas
Interpretation, surely that was no fault
of heks.
But the blossoming- time comes, we are
told. even 90 aloes a hnnslrssl years old
and Miss Pamela Pepper was married Just
before she hoated into the forties. How
il had come to pass, nobody knew ex-
nctly. There were some who had the
hardihood to assert that Mr.. Josiah Black
had come To the dressmaking establish
ment TO see Mary More, the blue-eyed
little apprentice who made the buttonholes
and sewed the straight seams, but that
being skillfully intercepted by Miss
Pamela. she had taken his overtures rs
intended for herself and accepted him
effusiyely, before he had proposed; and
that Josiah, being q meek young man
with white eyelashes and a fiat, freckled
face, had not tho requisite courage to
escape from the meshes wherewith she
had SO artfully trapped him.
Re TINT ms Il might, il was certain that
Mary More had been discharged and that
Miss Pepper was now Mrs. Josiah Black
There had been an outfit ordered. eco
nomicnlly, from New York, wedding
cake nearly rs big rs q cart-wheel, and
deal of ostcntation. The bride declared
that IL was case of love ut first sight.
"Itain't a month, she remarked, gush
ingly "since me and Josiah first set eye
on each other, when he came into TIT
store TO ask the way to Squire Robinson's
He looked Mt me-oh how he looked q
me, And | felt sort of all overishnes
TINT | couldn't describe noway in tn
world, He didn't think of money nor ye
of lineage. nor none o them things; b
only felt as we was made for each othc
by Providence"
In which case, Squire Robinson re
marked. sub rosa, Providence had mad
a had mistake of it for once. For Mrs
!. Josiah Black was tall and shallow, wit
the frame of Prussian grenadier, Win
Mr.. Josiah Black was slight and roun'
sbouldered, with haxen locks and watery
blue eyes. Mrs. Squire Robinson sal
there was fifteen years difference l
their ago. But the bride said it wa
only Ave. And who should know il I'll
bride didnN
INT when the couple were seated
tbe train. speeding toward Blue Poin
where the ancestral halls of the Blac
family we're situated, Pamela grew CO
fidential.
"Were agoin' right to your hous
Josiah, suppose?" said che.
ives" snid Josiah, with deep sig
"Nybere else should we go!" i,
..some folks board" suggested I
; bride "Just at first, at least"
1T hain't no money for that sort
sonc~' work" dolefully remarked
gro m. ao.s,, ..LoJ ,
Q .sWell. Il amt bad responded Josi'
~ In -committal way:
I "You never told mo about your faini
y Jo.,ah.r went on Mira Black, soothing
.sFam'Iy?' repeated Josiah, With