The Opelousas courier., 1895-09-14
They MIX Clothe. Now

Il rode by here, Rufe, in ordermen,
TO give in the latest news from over in
the hill country" says Andy when
met MIN at the horse rack which is to
say thai Joe Pete Willingham and Miss
plnkey Travis are now hangin thei,
clothes on the same peg, you under
stand. But at the same time. Rufe. if
thai want a hard times weddin then
such a thing never has come to pass in
all our skirt of the woods. 1 don't
mean by that Joe Pete and Miss Pinkey
didn't have the necessary pocket wad.
DIN to buy some weddin garments and
take out the documents and paw the
preacher. But seems like everything
piled up the wrong way and run dead
acrost the grain from start to finish.
| reckon no doubts accordin to your
doctrines Providence had a hand in
workin up the love scrape between Joe
Pete and Miss Pinkey, but hencefor-
wards after that it looks as if Provi-
dence turned the job over to the world,
the flesh and the devil. and the weddin
match come blame nigh bein busted up.
They did git there finally at last, but
they got there like the Dutchman got
to heavenly the hair of the head and
the skin Of the teeth.
For years and years it has been as
plain as a painted mile post to most
everybody in the Hill country that Joe
Pete and Miss Pinkey was sweethearts,
you understand, and lovin harder than
a mule could kick backwards down hill
with both feet. Anybody could shet
n eye and see the lay of the land to
that extent-anybody exceptin the
girls dady, old man Gus Travis. It was
some three or four months ago when
the old man first come to the conclu-
sion that there was somethin dead up
the creek, as it were, and then he put
right in and tried his level blamdest to
bust up the plans of Providence and
stop the reglar run of the human ma
chinery. Up to that time Joe Pete and
Miss Pinkey had been courtin and car
ryin on and gallavantin around to beat
six bits. But old man Gus got his back
way up on his shoulders, you under
stand, and laid down the law without
any Bible words to speak of. He
wouldn't let Miss Pinkey leave home
only when he could go with her, and
he sent a letter to Joe Pete tellin him
if he EVER put his foot on the Travis
place the next thing in order would be
at least one second class funeral in the
settlement.
mind You now, Rufe, old man Gus
didn't have nothin in particlar to say
agin the general standin Of Joe Pete.
He couldn't rake and scrape the earth
and find anything bad that would stack
up agin that boy. You know and l
know and everybody knows that Joe
Pete Willingham is perfectly all right.
He is sober and honest, and a powerful
clost, steady worker, and there jest
amt no bugs on him, you under
stand. But he wanted Miss Pinkey for
a wife, and right there is where the
harness rubbed old man Gus. The III
lowed all the time that Joe Pete
was good enough in his place, but he
at the same time that no
man under the sun could go and
git married to his daughter Pinkey.
He made out like she was o smart n
too pritty and too good to marry any
on the green earth.
"You know old man Gus wears a NO.
10 shoe and q No. Z hat and measures
Is inches in the grit, and it is the most
strangest thing in the world to me to
see a man built on such broad plans
standin on such q narrow puncheon.
But there he was and there he stood
till the general risin tides of human ma
ture swept him off. By-and-by he come
to find out that his daughter Pinkey
was also plain human flesh and blood,
and no tremendous big sights better
than any other bunch OF ribbins and
calico. He likewise also come to find
out what everybody ought to know be-
fore now it seems to me-that when
sonever a young man and a young wo-
man, both in good health and medium
well grown, set their heads together
md take up q notion to git married
along about this time of year, they are
more than probable to git married.
You moughtas well to go on back home
md send for the preacher, and grin and
bear it as best you an"