The Glenwood post., 1909-11-20

IA in squashville town. judgin'
for supplies.
Mary Ann is one of them restless
critters that can't wait minute once
she has set her mind on a thing.
"Pelsg. she says to me, a week
come next Wednesday. 'Peleg. you
better get started on Thanksgivin' or
It'll be here and we will be in 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 dyin' day she says, and it'll
be warning for me, l 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 crust'll be tough as all git out
When Mary Ann talks that way,
KNOWN her the way / do. bein' mar
l don't dawdle around doin' 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 1 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, 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 figger it up
till the whole caboodle is wrapped up.
Expense is nothin' to me- l says, If
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
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 feller says,
he says, cleaned up. l amt tit to
figger up Thanksgivin' dinner. But
If you'll set down and hold your
horses he says. we'll git to it, we'll
git to it.
Long and short of it was, Jay
didn't have half the things Mary Ann
had set down. We figgered out pret-
ty well, from what he had. But
DANCED If he had any cider or even
cider vinegar.
Jay l says. I'm believer in
truth. and l trusted you. But when l
read I says. in the Squashville
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 l hev, and find no ci-
der, or even cider vinegar. l find that
l have been misled After this l will
read the Squashville paper with some
caution. let alone orderin you as
postmaster to quit deliverin' it to box
1eS.'
SiN6, soy ooss you iC oboul lut
dangdest fool that ever set foot in.
side my store. l 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
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 l was right. Mary Ann put
her foot down when l come into the
kitchen and she see l didn't hev the
cider
"I can't help it, Peleg,' she says.
I must hev 1t. You'll hev to go to
Podunk for 1t. and to-day's as good a
time as l know. l won't sleep now
till git that cider. remember poor
Mis- Jenkins. and it's warnin."
And DANCED If I 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 goin' to make the trip. When l
got home l set down the Jug little
hard on the kitchen table.
MARY Ann.' l says, this idea of
hevin' the whole dunn town a-trumpin'
in here on Thanksgivin' may be all
right. l amt sayin' nothin' against
it. You'll hev your way But they's
got to be reform in this town. Jay
Home'll keep cider and every other
article l says. for Thanksgivin' or
Podunkll git my trade
"'Shet up. Peleg.' she says, and git
some water In this pail. You never
filled it, and hev been skimpin' ever
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