The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1909-11-19
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Peieg's Idea
of Thanksgiving
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Observation-Disclosures
"Thanksgivin' is goln' 10 be the
banguppist affair at our house that1l
be known in Squashville town, judgin'
from the way Mary has been maxim
me trot around 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, week
come next Wednesday. Peleg. you bet.
ter get started on Thanksgiyin' or
it'll be here and we will be In a 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 10 the ladies' aid, and she one
OF the leaders You got me TO agree
10 have half the town over here, and
it'll worry me, Peleg. until the tur-
keys bein' carved. I'm afraid yet the
pie crustll be tough as all git out
When Mary Ann talks that way.
KNOWN her the way | do, bein' mar.
ried a good 20 year, / give in. And
! don't dawdle around dom 1t, either.
Jay Home says to me one day,
'Peleg,' he says, you're plain hen
pecked. that's what you be-.
Thursday mornin', when | got
through with the chores. and seen
that the woodbox was filed and the
water pail brimmin' over, them bein'
things that gets on a 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, IL you have got any.
thing in this shanty that's needed for
bang-up Thanksgivin' dinner, trot
'er out, and don't stop to figger II up
till the whole caboodle Is wrapped up.
Expense is nothin' to me- / says, II
it costs a 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.' be
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
evenln' debauch of some OF these
Squashvile sports. as the Teller says,
he says, cleaned up. ! amt fit ia
| figger up a Thanksgivin' dinner. But
| II you'll set down and hold your
horses he says, wen git to 1t, well
git to it..
Long and short of II was, Jay
| didn't have half the things Mary Ann
had set down. We figgered out pretty
well, from what he had. But DANCED
If he had any cider or even cider vim
egar.
jay says, I'm a believer In
truth, and / trusted you. But when
read says, in the Squashville Bugle
as | did yesday, them items which
SAYS Jay Home has the fullest, mos
complete and general stock of gro
ceries in the northwest. prices RICH
and good treatment" and come here
as | hev, and find no cider, or evei
cider vinegar, find that | have beel
misled. After this | will read thu
Sduashyille paper with some caution
let alone orderin' you as postmaste
to quit deliverin' il TO box 1885,
"'Peleg,' says Jay, you're about the
dangdest fool that ever set foot in
side my store | had that cider. al
advertised, and | had that good treat
ment. and no one ever said my price!
wasn't fair. But because a lot of 9th
ers has been trottin' in here for sup
plies. let alone them that buys IL b!
the glass, you git on your high horse
like your trade, Peleg,' he says, blu
dang II amt a notion TO tell you L
find another place
Jay | says. seem i was harsh
we bein' members OF the Moderr
Woodmen amt goin' to hev no words
But am thinkin' of Mary Ann. She's
set her heart on real cider for then
mince pies, and you know Mary Ann.
And | was right. Mary Ann pu
her foot down when ] come into th'
kitchen and she see | didn't hev TIL
cider.
~ can't help it, Peleg.' she says
4 must hev IL. You'll hev to go L
Podunk for il. and today's as good
time as | know. | won't sleep nov
till | cit that cider. ] remember poo
Mis- jenkins. and it's a warnin.'.'
"And DANCED II didn't hev to wall
over to Podunk, me that amt beef
there since | got beat for constable
And Mary Ann set down some othe
little things she thought of. bein' as
was goin' to make the trip. When
got home l set down the jug a littl
hard on the kitchen table.
MARY Ann, | says, this idea o
heyin' the whole dun town a-trumpin
in here on Thanksgivin' may be al
right. amt sayin' nothin' agains
II. You'll hev your way. But they
got to be reform in this town. ia
Home1l keep cider and every othe
article says. for Thanksgivin' o
Podunk1l git my trade
"Shet up. Peleg, she says, AN
cit some water in this pail. You neve
filled II. and hev been skimpin' eve
since you started for Podunk.'
They amt never been no troubl
in our family for 20 years. as | wa
sayin'. but IL they is, it'll come fror
one OF these Thanksgiyin' dinners
Doneed II IL won't "-R. b. Pixley. l