Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-11-18

kNM from the way Mary has
1oTM CsT been maxim me trot around
AZ In Squashville town, judgin'
for supplies.
Mary Ann is one of them restless
critters that can't wait minute once
she has set her mind on thing.
Peleg, she says to me, a week
come next Wednesday, 'Peleg, you
better get started on Thanksgivin' or
It'll be here and we will be in fix
like Mis- jenkins was the time she
had us all over for dinner six years
ago. | shall never forget that dinner
to my dyin' day. she says. and it'll
be warning for me, hope. Mis-
Jenkins was ashamed to show her
face to the ladies' aid, and she one
OF the leaders. You got me to agree
to have half the town over here, and
ltll worry me, Peleg, until the tur-
keys bein' carved. I'm afraid yet the
pie crust'll be tough as all git out.
When Mary Ann talks that way,
KNOWN her the way l do, bein' mar
ried good 20 year. give in. And
don't dawdle around doin' it, either.
Jay Home says to me one day,
'Peleg, he says. you're plain hen.
pecked that's what you be-
Thursday mornin', when l got
through with the chores, and seen
that the woodbox was filled and the
water pail brimmin' over, them bein'
things that gets on woman's nerves,
gifts loaded up with jugs and things
and was down to Jay Homes store
before he had the floor sprinkled.
Jay says, If you have got any
thing in this shanty that's needed for
bang-up Thanksgivin' dinner, trot
'er out, and don't stop to fgger 1t up
till the whole caboodle is wrapped up.
Expense is nothin' to me- I says, if
it costs load of my best meadow
hay
Jay set down his sprinkler and
went out to the back shed for the
broom
Don't you git riled up, Peleg,' he
says, or excited. Comm in on me
at this time of the mornin' he says,
when my minds set on gettin' the
prune pits and other dabree of the
evenin' debauch of some of these
Squashville sports, as the Teller says
he says, cleaned up. l amt fit to
figser up a Thanksgivin' dinner. But
if you'll set down and hold your
horses he says, well git to it, we'll
git to it.
Long and short of it was, Jay
didn't have half the things Mary Ann
had set down. We figgered out pref
ty well, from what he had. But
DANCED if he had any cider or even
cider vinegar
jay says, I'm believer in
truth, and trusted you. But when l
read | says. in the Squashville
Bugle, as l did yes'day, them items
which says Gay Home has the full
est, most complete and general stock
| of groceries in the northwest, prices
right and good, treatment" and /
come here. as hev, and find no CT
der, or even cider vinegar, find that
have been misled. After this will
read the Squashville paper with some
caution, let alone orderin' you as
| postmaster to quit deliverin' it to box
! 1884,
"'Peleg,' says Jay, you're about the
! dangdest fool that ever set foot in
| side my store. l had that cider, as
advertised, and had that good treat
ment, and no one ever said my prices
wasn't fair. But because lot of 9th.
| hoc IN e.,
plies, let alone them that buys it by
the glass, you git on your high horse.
like your trade, Peleg,' he says, but
dang if amt notion to tell you to
| find another place.
clay l says, seem l was harsh,
! we bein' members of the Modern
/ Woodmen amt goin to hev no words.
But l am thinkin' Of Mary Ann. She's
| set her heart on real cider for them
mince pies, and you know Mary Ann
| And l was right. Mary Ann put
her foot down when come into the
| kitchen and she see ! didn't hev the
1 cider.
81 can't help it, Peleg,' she says.
I must hev it. You'll hev to go to
Podunk for 1t, and to-day's as good a
time as l know. won't sleep now
till I git that cider. remember poor
Mis- Jenkins, and it's warnin'''
And DANCED If l didn't hev to walk
over to Podunk, me that amt been
there since got beat for constable.
And Mary Ann set down some other
little things she thought of, bein' as /
was goin' to make the trip. When l
got home | set down the jug little
| hard on the kitchen table
"tMary Ann. | says. this idea OF
hevin' the whole dun town a-trunpin'
1 in here on Thanksgivin may be- all
| right. | amt sayin' nothin' against
| it. You'll hay your Way But they's
got to be reform in this town. Il Jay
Homell keep cider and every other
article, says, for Thanksg or
Podunkll git my trade.
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