Show g s Idea Idea o 0 as to too o o O 0 o u J d. d j is gain goin to toI tobe tobe I be the affair at atour our house that'll be known I from tho the way Mary lary has hast t 0 been makin m me trot around in town for supplies Mary Iary Ann Is one of them restless critters that cant can't wait walt a minute once he the has set her mind on a thing I Peleg sh she says to me a week come next Wednesday Peleg you bettor better get started on or It'll be here and we will be in a fix like lute Mis' Mis Jenkins was the time sh she had bad us ns all ov over r for dinner six ye years rs ago I 1 shall never forget that dinner to my day she says and It'll be a warning for me I 1 hope Mis' Mis l Jenkins was as ashamed to o show h her herace r lace ace to the ladies ladies' aid aid aid- and she one of the leaders lenders You got me to agree to have half the town over here and it'll worry me Peleg until the turkeys turkey's turkeys turkey's tur tur- keys key's hem bein carved Im I'm afraid yet the pie be tough as all git out When Mary Ann talks that way knowin her the way I do bein married married mar mar- ried ned a good 20 year I give in And AndI I don't dont dawdle around dam doin it either Jay Home says to me one day Peleg he says youre plain henpecked henpecked hen hen- pecked that's what you be Thursday mornin when I got through with the chores and seen that the was filled and the water pall pail pall over them bein I things that gets on a womans woman's nerves I II I gits loaded up with Jugs and things and was down to Ja Jay Homes Home's store before he had the floor sprinkled Ja Jay I 1 says if you have got anything anything anything any any- thing In Ia this shanty that's needed for fora a up bang-up dinner trot er out and dont don't stop to figger it up till the whole caboodle is is' wrapped up Expense is to me I says If it costs a load of my best meadow hay Jay set down his sprinkler and went out to the back shed for for- forthe the broom I Dont you git riled up Peleg he says or excited Comin in on me meat meat meat at this time of the mornin he says when my minds mind's set on gettin the prune pits and other of the evenin debauch of some of these sports as the feller says he says c cleaned up I 1 aint fit to figger up a dinner But Buti i if you'll set down and hold your horses he says well git to it well we'll git to it Long and short of it was Jay didn't have half the things Mary Ann had had set down We out pretty pretty pretty pret pret- ty well from what he had But danged i if he had any cider or even cider elder vinegar believer in Im Jay I 1 says a truth and I 1 trusted you But Dut when I read I says in the Bugle as I did them items which says Jay Home has the fullest fullest fullest full full- est most complete and general stock of groceries in the northwest prices right and good treatment and I come here as I hev hey and find no cider cider ci ci- der del or even cider elder vinegar I find that I have been misled After Atter this I 1 will read the paper with sonic some caution let alone you as postmaster to quit It to box U about the Peleg says Jay youre fool that ever set foot inside inside in in- side my store I 1 had that cider elder as advertised and I had that good treatment treatment treat treat- ment and no one ever said my prices wasn't fair But because a lot of or others oth ers has be been n in here for or supplies supplies sup plies let alone them that buys it b bj the glass you git on your high horse I lik like your trade Peleg he says but dang if it I aint a notion to tell you to find another place seem I harsh Jay I says was we bela bein members of at the Modern Woodmen aint gaIn goin to hev hey no words But I 1 am of Mary Ann She's set her heart on real cider Ider for them mince pies and you know Mary AnnAnd Ann And I was right Mary lary Ann put her foot down when I 1 come into the kitchen and she see I didn't hev hey the the theelder cider elder I I I cant can't help it Peleg she says I must hev hey it ft You'll hev hey to go to Podunk for it aad Jd to-day's to as good a n time as I 1 know I wont won't sleep now till I git that elder cider I remember po poor poor r Mis' Mis Jenkins and its it's a And danged If I didn't hev hey to walk walli walkover over o to Podunk me that aint been there since I got beat for constable And Mary Ann set down some other little things she thought of hem a as 1 was gain goin to make the trip When 1 got home I set down the Jug a little hard on the kitchen table I Mary A Ann n I says this idea ol of bevin the tho whole dum durn town a In here on may be all right I aint sayin against it Y You'll hev hey your w way y But theys they's got to be reform in this town Jay Homell keep cIder elder and every other article I 1 says for 01 oi git my trado trade Shet Shot up Peleg she says and git gil some water in this pail pall You novel nevel filled OIled It and I 1 hev hey been skimp In eve I since you started for Podunk I I They hey aint never been no trouble In our family for 20 years as ns I wa was I sayin but if they Is it'll come from i ione one of these thesa dinners dinners' if it wont wont R. R. R B. B Pixley IB iv Milwaukee 1 Free Press I |