The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1909-11-19

come next Wednesday, 'Peleg, you
better get started on Thanksgivin' OF
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. l shall never forget that dinner
TO my dytn' day. she says, and itl'
be a warning for me-, l hope. Mis-
Jenkins was ashamed to show her
face to the ladies' aid, and she n
Of the leaders. You got me to agree
to have half the town over here, and
it'll worry me. Peleg, until the tur-
keys bein' carved. I'm afraid yet the
pie crustIl be tough as all git out
when Mary Ann talks that way,
Nknowfn' her the way / do, bein' mar
ried a good 20 year. l give in. And
! don't dawdle around doin' it, either.
Gay Home says to me n day,
'Peleg.' he says, you're plain hen-
pecked. that's what you be-
Thursday mornin', when I got
through with the chores, and e
that the woodbox was filled and the
water pail brimmin' over, them bein'
things that gets on a woman's nerves,
I gifts loaded up with jugs and things
aud 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
\ hang-up Thanksgivin' dinner, trot
'er out. and don't stop to fgger it up
till the whole caboodle is wrapped up.
EApense is nothin' to me- l says, If
it costs a load OF my best meadow
hay
Jay SGT 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 avs
when my minds set on gettin' the
pTune pits and other dabree Of the
syenin' debauch Of some of these
Squashville sports, as the Teller says
he Says. cleaned up. l amt fit to
1Eger up a Thanksgivin' dinner. But
il you'll set down and hold your
horses he says. well git to it, Wen
git to it,
Lung dAlO S1OIt u ~ was, Jay
didn't have nalf the things Mary Ann
lad set down. We figgered out pref
II well. from what he had. But
banged II he had any cider or wen
elder vinegar.
Jay l says. I'm a believer in
truth. and l trusted you. But when l
read I says. in the Squashville
Rygie, as l did yes'day, them items
which says Jay Home has the full
est. most complete and general stock
81 groceries in the northwest. prices
right and good treatment" and ]
some here. as I hev, and find no CT
der. or even cider vinegar. I find that
! have been misled. After this l will
read the S~Quashville paper with some
caution. let alone orderin' you as
postmaster to quit deliverin' 1t to box
1885,
"sPeleg.' says Jay. you're about the
Aaagdest fool that ever set foot in.
side my store. I had that cider, as
advertised, and I had that good treat.
nent. and no one ave said my prices
wasn't fair. But because q lot of 9th.
sEs has been trottin' in here for sup
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 I amt q notion to tell you to
find another place.
Jay I says. SEEM I was harsh,
we bein' members of the Modern
Woodmen amt goin' to hev no words.
But I am thinkin' of Mary Ann. She's
set her heart on real cider for them
Aince pies. and you know Mary Ann
And I was right. Mary Ann put
her foot down when l come into the
cider.
"T can't help it, Peleg.' she says.
y must hev 1t. You'll hev to go to
Ppdunk for it, and to-day's as good a
time as I know. l won't sleep now
till I git that cider. remember poor
Mis- Jenkins. and it's q warnin.'"
And DANCED il l didn't hev to walk
over to Podunk. me that amt been
there since l got beat for constable.
And Mary Ann set down some other
little things she thought of. bein' as l
was goiR' to make the trip. When l
got home l set down the jug a little
hard on the kitchen table.
MARY Ann l says. this idea of
kevin' the whole dunn town a-trumpin'
IN here on Thanksgivin' may be all
right. I amt sayin' nothin' against
it. You'll hey your way. But they's
got to be reform In this town. Jay
A4omell keep cider and every other
article I says, for Thanksgivin' or
Podunkn git my trade
"'Shet up. Peleg,' she says. and git
some water in this pail. You never
tlled it. and l hev. been skimpin' ever
since you started for Podunk.'
They amt never been no trouble
IN our family for 20 years, as / was
sayin.' but II they Is, it'll come from
enc Of these Thanksgivin' dinners.
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