Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1892-04-01
CORRINA'S WEDDING.

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nad Kept house for grandther quite !
spell She wasn't overly Young. and he
didn'f want TO spare her. she made sue.h
nice griddle cakes.
ne was very fond Of griddle cakes
hadn't teeth TO eat nothing hard. and
10 made EN- for him for breakfast din.
ner and supper. Sometimes she made
EN- plain, sometimes sweet. Sometime
she rolled jell mp into EN-. sometim.s
she put hash into EN-. They was great
variety, and they was always good. 81
when Jabez Chow purposed, and cori-
anna accepted him, grantber said NO
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. Rnt
she was pious gal. and she felt "A II
ner granther's crss 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 grapther had
gone to bed-just where the punkin
patch jined onter the blueberry meider.
and the old popler grew. Wen. some
mean sneak or other went and told
granther about it, and he got up ont Of
his bed and follered her one night. and
found 'em kissin' each other.
he was a real bad tempered old gen.
tleman, Granthex Peeks was, and when
he seen that he just up and cussed her
any way and drove her home with his
stick like she was pig. after hitting
fabez 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 snre. Corianna was
sobbing as ef her heart would break.
"You cussed me. granther.- she kept
a-sayin'; land now it don't make no mat
ter what do. Seem 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 a while, and said he'd take the
cuss back. and got her to go 20 bed quiet.
But when she walked up next day, meau-
ing to run away and marry Jabez, she
found gran-her had been before her.
He'd nailed and locked and barred the
whole house up as if it was prison, and
left just little hole in the kitchen
shutter for her to see to cook by. This
front door he kept the key of in his
pocket. and be was grinning hike mon
key to see how smart he'd been.
II 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 pump in the
kitchen"
"You don't mean to lock me up this
way for good. granther:" says Corianna.
II shall die of want of air and exercise.
So will you"
Il guess 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 jell 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 wa:
skeerful of putin into language. seen
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- 1t:
worse than sassin'.'
So while she was a-fryin' the cakes sht
kept sayin' over and over TO herself
Snow Law 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, ant
this is what had come of it. She told Ii
all this through the hole in the shutter
We got kinder scared, you know, seein
the house shut up. and went to call, bu
didn't get let in: but arter while, wheI
we'd knocked and knocked a spell TO th'
front door and the side door, we wen
round to the back, and there was poo
Corianna's face a-stickin' out of the holt
in the shutter The tears rolled dow
her cheeks as she told US the story, an,
we had TO cry, too, me and Miss Pinney
and Miss Peters and Maria Brown
Maria Brown she was just proposi1
breakin' down the door and carryin' poo
Corianna off when a upstairs shuttle
opened and Granther Peeks poked N
head out.
..See here. folkses," said he, "a MAJ
has right TO keep his house shet o
open as he pleases, and to order his win
min folks as he sees fittin'. You tee
bolt, or bar, or lock, or hook on my prem
ises, ard I'll shoot you down fust an,
have you took up for burglars afterward
and I'd hev the law on my side, tu-
Then he showed us big hoss pistol, an
saws he, Its loaded and we scattered
But | wrote on piece of paper, III tel
Jabez." and gave it up to Corlanna, prs
tendin' to kiss her good-by. And neye
was so thankful that oilers carried
pencil in my pocket for new recipes
For she needed comfort, and | CUES
them words gave her little. | kept m
promise. and that night Jabez prance
about the house, but couldn't get pee
at her. No more he couldn't for a cor
Die of days. But at last he thought
tootin' througha fish horn If there W.
ANYTHING Granther Peeks liked 1t WI
fish. So he says TO Corianna, Peek on
CORY, and see eff that's shad; shad's
season"
So Cory poked her head out OF Il
hole and saw Jabez BLOWN the horl