Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1909-11-18

n THANKSGIVING is goin. to
Il ~ be the banguppist affair at
PNN our house that'll be known
W. In Squashvills town, judgin'
I7.1 C:J from the way Mary has
been maxim ps trot around
for supplies.
Mary Ann Is one Of them restless
critters that cant wait minute once
she has set her nild On thing.
Psleg, she says to me, =. week
come next Wednesday. 'Peles, you
better get started On Thanksgivin' or
tin be here and We will be Ia ! fix
like Mis- jenkins was the time she
had 10 oil over for dinner six years
ago. shall never forget that dinner
to my dyin' day, she says, and It'll
b warning for mo. I 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
it'll worry me, Peleg, until the tur-
keys bein' carved. I'm afraid yet the
pie crustll be tough @ oil GIT out
when Mary Ann talks that way,
KNOWN her the way I do, bein' mar
rted a good 20 year, / give in. And
l don't dawdle around dom 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 rot
through with the chores, and seen
that the woodbo1 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
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 fggerl It up
till the whole caboodle is wrapped up.
Expense is nothin' to me- l says, if
T 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,' 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, % the teller says
he says, cleaned up. amt fit to
.ngger up Thanksgivin' dinner. But
if you'll set down and hold your
horses he says, wen git to It. we'll
git to it., asse.
"Long. and short Of 1t was, Jay
didn't have half the things Mary Ann
had set down. We fingered out pref
-ty well, from what he had. But
DANCED If he had any cider or even
cider vinegar. = RI.
Jay says. Tn believer IN.
truth, and trusted you. But when I
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 md no CT
der, or even cider vinegar, find that
I have been mis1e4 After this will
read the squashville paper with some
caution, let alone orderin' you as
postmaster to quit deliverin' it to box
1885,
'Peleg, says JAY. you're about the
dangdest fool that ever set foot In
side my store. I had that cider, as
advertised, 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 amt notion to tell you to
find another place.
S. "'Jay,' says, seem ! 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
mince pies, and you know Mary Ann
'.And / was right. Mary Ann put
her foot down when come into the
kitchen and she see I didn't hev the
cider
I can't help 1t, Peleg., she says.
4 must hev 1t. You'll hev to 90 to
Podunk for it, and to-day's % good 4
time as know. ! won't sleep now
till git that cider. remember poor
Mis- Jenkins, and It's = warnin.' = ''
"And DANCED II ! didn't hev to walk
over to Podunk, me that ANT been
there since got beat for constable.
And Mary Ann set down some other
little things she thought Of. bein' - I
was goin' to make the trip. When I
got home set down the jug : little
hard on the kitchen table. ssi
Mary Ann. says, this idea %
hevin' the whole dunn town a-trumpin,
In here on Thanksgiyin' may IS m
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