The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-11-25

critters that can't wait q minute once
she has set her mind on a thing.
"'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 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
lace to the ladies' aid, and she one
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 crustll be tough as all git out
when Mary Ann talks that way,
KNOWN her the way / do. bein mar
ried good 20 year. l give in. And
I 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 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,
l gifts loaded up with jugs and things
and was down to Jay Homes store
before he had the floor sprinkled.
"Jay,' says, II 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 1t up
till the whole caboodle ia wrapped up.
Expense is nothin' to me- l says, If
1t 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,' he
says or excited. Comm in on me
at this time of the mornin,' he says,
when my minds set on gettin' the
evenin' debauch of some Of these
Squashville sports, as the Teller says
he says, cleaned up. amt fit to
fgger up a Thanksgivin' dinner. But
IL you'll set down and hold your
horses he says, well git. to it. Wen
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 IL he had any cider or even
cider vinegar
jay I says. I'm a believer in
truth, and trusted you. But when l
Bugle, as l 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 !
come here, as / hev, and find no CT
der, or even cider vinegar. l find that
/ have been misled After this l will
read the Squashville paper with some
caution, let alone orderin you as
postmaster to quit deliverin' 1t to box
1884,
"'Peleg,' says Jay, you're about the
dangdest fool that ever set foot in
side my store. / 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
ers has been trottin' in here for sup
plies, let alone them that buys 1t by
the glass, you git on your high horse
| like your trade, Peleg,' he says, but
dang II amt notion to tell you tc
find another place
"Jay,' says. SEEM / was harsh
we bein' members Of the Modern
Woodmen amt goin' to hev no words
But amNhinkin' of Mary Ann. She's
set her heart on real cider for then
mince pies, and you know Mary Ann.
And l was right. Mary Ann pu
her foot down when come into thu
kitchen and she see didn't hev tn,
cider.
"I can't help 1t, Peleg,' she says
Y must hev It, You'll hev to go b
Podunk for it, and to-day's as good
time as ! know. / won't sleep nov
till I git that cider. remember poo
Mis- Jenkins. and it's a warnin."
"And DANCED If didn't hev to wal
over to Podunk, me that amt bee
there since l 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 littl
hard on the kitchen table.
"'Mary Ann l says, this idea c
hevin' the whole dun town a-trumpiI
In here on Thanksgivin' may be a
right. l amt sayin' nothin' agains
II. You'll hev your way. But they
got to be reform in this town. ia
Homell keep cider and every othe
article, says, for Thanksgivin' c
Podunk'll git my trade
"Shet up. Peleg, she says, and g
some water In this pail. You neve
filled It, and hev been skimpin' eve
since you started for Podunk.'
"They amt never been no troubl
Ia our family for 20 years, as ! wa
sayin. but II they is. itll come frol