The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1909-11-26
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Pe/eg'S Idea
of Thanksgiving



"Thanksgivin' is goin' TO be the
banguppist affair al our house that'll
be known In Squashville town, judgin'
from the way Mary has been maxim
me trot around for supplies.
Mary Ann is one of them restless
critters that cant wait minute once
she has set her mind on thing.
'Peleg, she says TO me, week
come next Wednesday. 'Peleg you bet
ter 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. ] 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 |
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.
ried a good 20 year, | give in. And
don't dawdle around dom 1t, either.
Jay Home says to me one day,
1 'Peleg, he says, you're plain hen.
pecked, that's what you be-
Thursday mornin', when / got
through with the chores, and seen
that the woodbox was filled and the
water pail brimmin' over, them bein'
things that gets on a woman's nerves.
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
q bang-up Thanksgivin' dinner, trot
er out, and don't stop to figger 1t up
till the whole caboodle is wrapped up.
Expense is nothin TO me- | says, If
IL 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
Squashvile sports, as the Teller says,
he says, cleaned up ] amt fit to
figger up a Thanksgivin' dinner. But
II you'll set down and hold your
horses he says, wen git to 1t, well
git to it,
Long and short of II was. Jay
didn't have half the things Mary Ann
had set down. We figgered out pretty
well, from what he had But DANCED
if he had any cider or even cider VIM
egar.
LAY | SAYS, I'm a believer in
Ilrat Nxhn
: read | says, in the Squashville Bugle.
as ! did yes'day, them Items which
saws "Jay Home has the fullest, most
complete and general stock OF gro
ceries in the northwest, prices right
o and good treatment" and come here
as | hev and find no cider, or even
cider vinegar. / find that / have been
e misled. After this ! will read the
Squashville paper with some caution
T let alone orderin' you as postmaster
e TO quit deliverin' IL to box 1885,
"'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
/, niles. let alone them that buys II. by
! the glass, you git on your high horse
like your trade, Peleg, he says, but
dang II I amt notion to tell you to
:, find another place
: Jay / says, seem | was harsh
we bein members OF the Modern
Woodmen amt goin' to hev no words
!. But | am thinkn' of Mary Ann. She
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
n kitchen and she see didn't hev the
! cider.
s 81 can't help it. Peleg.' she says
u I must hev II. You'll hev to 90 tC
q podunk for IL, and today's as good
. time as | know ] won't sleep now
a iii cit that cider. remember pool
/ Mis- Jenkins, and it's a warnin.''
2 And DANCED II didn't hev to wall
:. over TO Podunk, me that amt beer
there since | 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
a got home I set down the jug LITTLE
hard on the kitchen table.
"'Nary Ann | says, this idea
bavin' the whole dun town a-trumpin
y IN here on Thanksgivin' may be al
"a right. I amt sayin' nothin' agains
H. n You'll hev your way. But they
got to be reform in this town. ia,
y. Homen keep cider and every othe
N article says, for Thanksgivin' o
"a Podunk1l git my trade.
4. "'shet up. Peleg,' she says, an
: cit some water in this pail You neve
. rlled II. and hev been skimpin' eve
since you started for Podunk.'
n "They Amt never been no troubl
Id IN our family for 20 years, as wa
IN savin'. but II they is, it'll come fror
one OF these Thanksgivin' dinners
hanged IL IL won't. "-R. b. Pixley, 1