The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1910-03-30
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3 Winter
Evening
Two Pairs of Shoes
From the ''Old Home House"
BY JOSEPH c. LINCOLN
Copyright 1907. BY A. $. Barnes o CO.

JOudQdD dIu LIE WENT 10 The
ITN postotfice that night. We want
- expecting any mail. that's sar-
tin. | guess likely we done it for the
reason the teller that tumbled over
board went to the bottom Twas the
handiest place to go
q Anyway. we was there. and | was
propping up the stove with my feet
and holding down chair with the
i rest of me when Jonadab heaves
alongside flying distress signals. He
had an envelope in his starboard nit
i ten and coming to anchor with a flop
in the next chair, sets shifting the
thing from one hand to the other as il
twas red hot.
Twas queer looking envelope,
more'n the average length fore and
aft, but kind of scant in the beam.
There was puddle of red sealing wax
on the back of it, with a "Dn in the
middle. and up in one corner was a
kind of picture thing in colors, with
some printing in a foreign language
underneath it, The envelope was adj
dressed to captain Jonadab Wixon.
j Orham Mass"
"'TWas in my box" says he ''Must
have come in tonight's mail"
| didn't know the mail was sorted.
but when he says that | unlocked my
box, and swan to man if there want
another envelope, just like Jonadab's,
except that twas addressed to bar
zilla Wingate.'
couS a0voSrr LaoI~ A.
the stove, you amt the only one
that's heard from the Prince of
Wales! Look herep'
j He was the most surprised man but
one on the Cape. ! was the one. We
couldn't make head nor tail of the
business and set there comparing the
envelopes and wondering who on earth
had sent 'em.
Then we opened up the envelopes,
both at the same time. Inside of each
of EN- was another envelope, slick and
smooth as mack'rers back, and in
side of that was a letter, printed, but
looking like the kind of writing that
used to be in the copybook at school.
1t said that Ebenezer Dillaway begged
the honor of our presence at the mar
rage of his daughter Belle to Peter
Theodosius Brown at DiIlamead
House, Cashmere Hudson, Feb
3, nineteen hundred and so forth.
We were surprised, of course, and
pleased in one way because Peter had
done so much for US, managing the Old
Home House, our summer hotel at
Wellmouth Port
Well, we see twas our duty to go,
, SO we went / had new Sunday cut
away and light pants to go with it, so
fggered that | was pretty well found,
but Cap'n Jonadab had to pry him.
self loose from considerable money,
and every cent hurt as if twas nailed
on.
We struck Cashmere-on-the-Hu Hudson
about o'clock on the afternoon of the
day Of the wedding, but when we hove
in sight of Dillamead- Ebenezer's place
we shortened sail and pretty nigh
drew out of the race. Twas up on a
high bank over the river, and the
house itself was bigger than four Old
Homes spliced together. 1t had fair
sized township around it in the shape
of land, with high stone wall for
trimming on the edges.
''Well,' / says to Jonadab, 1T looks
to me as If we was getting out of
soundings. What do you say to COM
ing about and making quick run for
Orham againT'
But he wouldn't hear of it. "S'pose
Two cYlo41f oil %Eo% v,,aY,ar ~, l5,1S7c fnY.
nothing?' he says. mo, sir, by thun-
der: / amt scared of Peter Brown
nor her that's going to be his wife. and
amt scared of Ebenezer neither, no
matter if he does live in the Manu-
facturers' building, with two or three
thousand fathom of front fence" he
says.
All right" says I. Darn the tor
pedoes! Keep her as she is! You can
fire when ready, Gridleyr'
So we sot sail for what we lodged
was Ebenezer's front gate, and just as
we made it man comes whistling
round the bend in the path, and I'm
blessed if 'twa'n't Peter Z. Brown!
He was rugged to kill. as usual, only
more so.
Hello. Peter!" ! says. 'sHere we
be-
"Well, I'll be- he begun and then
stopped.
What in the -" he commenced
again. and again his breath died out.
Fin'lly he says, Us this you. or had
better quit and try another pipe?
We told him twas us. and 1t seemed
to me that he want nigh so tickled
as he'd ought to have been. When he
found we'd come to the wedding count
Of Ebenezer sending US word he didn't
say nothing for minute or so.
"Of course we had to come" says
Jonadab I'VE felt 'twouldn't be right
to disapp'int Mr. Dillaway"
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