The Columbus journal., 1909-11-17

~ be the banguppist affair al
HUNXT our house that1l be known
ikN from the way Mary has
H Cs1 been maxim me trot around
I'll in Squashville town. judgin'
for supplies.
"Peleg.' she says to me. . week
come next Wednesday. 'Peleg. you
better get started on Thanksgivin' or
it'll be here and we will be In q AZ
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.
when Mary Ann talks that way,
KNOWN her the way i do. bein' mar
ried good 20 year. 1 give in. And
/ don't dawdle around doin' 1t. either.
Thursday mornin', when got
through with the chores, and seen
that the woodbox was filled and the
water pail Drimmin' over. them bein'
things that gets on a woman's nerves..
1 gifts loaded up with jugs and things
and was down to Jay Homes store
before he had the floor sprinkled.
Jay l says. if you have got any
thing in this shanty that's needed for
a bang-up Thanksgivin' dinner. trot
'er out, and don't stop to figger 1t up
till the whole caboodle is wrapped up.
Jay set down his sprinkler and
went out to the back shed for the
broom.
Don't you git rileJ 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
figger up a Thanksgivin' dinner. But
if you'll set down and hold your
horses he says. well git to it. well
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 a believer in
truth. and trusted you. But when /
read / says. in the SQuashville
Bugle. as I did yes'day. them items
which says Jay Home has the full
est, most complete and general stock
of groceries in the northwest. prices
right and good treatment" and I
come here, as ! hev. and find no cit
der. or even cider vinegar. find that
l have been misled. After this l will
read the SQuashville paper with some
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. I had that cider. as
and I had that good treat
ment, and no one ever said my prices
wasn't fair. But because lot of 9TH
ers 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 notion to tell you to
find another place.
Jay l says. SEEM I was harsh.
we bein' members of the Modern
WoOdmen amt goin' to hev no words.
But am thinkin' Of Mary Ann. She's
set her heart on real cider for them
mince pies, and you know Mary Ann
''And / was right. Mary Ann put
her foot down when I come into the
kitchen and she see I didn't hev the
cider.
81 can't help it, Peleg.' she says.
/ must hev it. You'll hev to go to
Podunk for it, and to-day's as good a
lime as / know. I won't sleep now
ill git that cider. ] remember poor
Mis- Jenkins, and it's a warnin.'"
"And DANCED II l didn't hey to walk
,ver to Podunk. me that amt been
here since / got beat for constable.
md Mary Ann set down some other
title things she thought of. bein' as
vas goin' to make the trip. When
,ot home ] set down the jug a little
ard on the kitchen table.
"'Mary Ann ! says. this idea of
levin' the whole dunn town a-trumpin'
q here on Thanksgivin' may be all
light. I amt sayin' nothin' against
/. You'll hev your way. But they's
ot to be reform in this town. Jay
IomeIl keep cider and every other
rticle.' I says, for Thanksgiy;n' or
'Odunk1l git my trade
"'Shet up. Peleg.' she says. and git
ONE water in this pail. You never
lied it, and hev been skimpin' ever
ince you started for Podunk.'
"They amt never been no trouble
a our family for 90 years. as I was
ayin,' but If they is, it'll come from
ne of these Thanksgivin' dinners.
,onged if it won't."-R b. Pixley, in
Milwaukee Free Press.