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Show reason why that tliw greniiiy shoulj not jiercped he waited quite a Kjiell; but nobody answored but tho jedjjo, who re-tiiaikd re-tiiaikd ofiiuial. and hohouh from tlio woodshed, "Go ahead, dominin!" Then the dominie went ahead, and all went on quite reg'lar, except when Cor-ianna Cor-ianna disaiipeared from tho winder hole quite sudden because flrnuthor i'eekH bellered for more honey, and once when the had to fry him another cake to tup off with which space of time we occi-pied occi-pied Hinging hyninu. . However, the dominii) got her married all safe, ring on and all and writ out a certificate, and the witnesses signed it, and Jabez kissed her and go did the briJumaid; and then the squire came down off the woodshed and went round to (ho front door, and battered onto the panels and runf the bell until Oranthel Peeks stuck his head out of the winder, and says he: - "Sq Cony poked her head out of the hole and saw Jabez blowiu tho horn, ar.d as soon as he saw her ho up and kissed her at the shutter holo. "Keep up courage, Corianna," he said, 1 "this thing can't hist long." j "I slm'n't," says Corianna; "that 1 ' know. Granther says the law can't make a man open his doora, and I don't reckon it can; and nobody has a right to demand my freedom, as fur as I know." "Your husband would," saj's Jabez. "I ain't got nono," says Corianna. "Have one," says Jabez. "How be I to go to my wedding?" says , Corianna. - ! "Corianna," says Jabez, "let your wedding wed-ding come to you." : "Corry, hew's the fish?" says Granther from inside. "It isn't lihad," says Corvy. "and I guess it's stale." "Oh," says Granther, "don't buy none ef it's utale1" "I sha'n't," says Corry; "I'll lookkeer-ful." maue a mist,atte ana He Kinder coaxed her up a while, and said he'd take the cuss back, and got her to go' to bed quiet. But when she waked up next day, meaning mean-ing to run away and marry Jabez, she found granther had been before her. He'd nailed and locked and barred the whole house up as if it was a prison, and left just a little hole in the kitchen shutter for her to see to cook by. The front door he kept the key of in his pocket, and he was grinning like a monkey mon-key to see how smart he'd been. "I guess we won't have any more meetin's by moonlight;, my dear," says he, sardonic and unpleasant as ever could be. " "When stores is needed I'll go out, and you've got a pump in the kitchen." "You don't mean to look me up this way for good, granther?" says Corianna. "I shall die of want of air and exercise, So will you." "I guess I kin stand it," says granther. "When you want fresh air you kin stick your head out of that there appychure in the shutter and draw it in,. and today I want pancakes with rawsberry jell into um and lots of ceffee. I worked real "How de do, je.dge?" "Fair to middlin'," says the judge, ! "Why don't you open your door, Mr, Peeks?" "I ain't openin' no doors jest now, says Granther Peeks, "Guess you've $jt to," says the judge. "There's a man says you've got his wife ' shut up there." "I ain't!" says Granther. "There ain't nobody hero but Corianna; she's a spinster spin-ster and my grandarter." "Mr. Chow, yon jest step hero," says tho judge. ' So Jabez conies around the house. ' "Demand your wife," says the judge. "Well, I'm here, Mr. Peeks, for that purpose. You've got my wife, Mrs. Jabez Chow, in there and I want her," says Jabez. "Your wife?" says granther grinning. "Yes, sir," says the dominie following. "I've jest married them." j "I assisted," says Dominie Brown. ! "Will the witnesws come forward?" says the judge. Then we all trooped around tho house. "You see, granther," says Jabez, "Cu- j pid don't need doors to get in at ef there's ever so little a hole in the shutter." 1 'Twas a very rotnantieal apeuch, but the occasion kinder worked Jaijez up, 1 reckon, and he was sort of inspired. ! It seems that just then Corianna went ' np to granther and showed him her ring ; and her certificate, and that settled it. j In a minute mora he opened the door : and we walked in. He was cry in hard. "Oh, Jabez, Jabez!" says he, "bowl could yon? Nobody else kin make pan-! cakes that I kin digest only Corianna. Now I will starve to death!" j "No, yoa sha'n't," says Jabez." Can't ! you board with ns, or we board with you? and she can fry 'em all day, if you want her to and she's so disposed. " j "Of course I will," says Corianna, j Then Granther Peeks got out his red pocket handkercher and wiped his eyes, j "Ef you'd explained thet there to me ; before, Jabez," says he, "I wouldn't h made no objections; but doin' without i Coriannas pancake was a matter of life and death to me, my son." ! Then they shook hands; to did every- j body all round, and we had the biggest supper that night, and the greatt dance in the barn afterward! Mary Kyle Dal- ; las in Firt&id-s Comranion. Out of the winder she sticks her head agai.i. "When your granther is at tea, Corianna," Co-rianna," says Jabez, "you come to the hole. It's 6 o'clock, I suppose?" "About 6," says Corianna. "Things will be fixed all right after that," says Jabez. "Keep ' up your sperite." "How's tho fish?" asks Granther Peeks. "Awful!" says Corianna, giving Jabez a kiss and drawing her head in, She felt lots happier, for she had confidence con-fidence in Jabez, though she didn't know how he was going to fix it. That evening she came down to tea all dressed up, and she made Granther Peeks a lovely lot of cakes and an ome let, and he sot down to, table just as the clock struck 6, with a crash towel under his chin, and began to eat as ef he hadn't had anything before for a fortnight; and as soon as ho did so Corianna began to fan herself with a big palmleaf fan that always stood behind the kerosene lamp, and says she: "Oh, for a breath of air! I've got to have a breath of air or choke!" "You kin git it at the hole in tho winder, win-der, then," says Granther Peeks. "You know my reggylations." I Then Corianna she flew to the winder shutter hole and she poked her head out, and there she saw a sight ! Close againrt the house stood Jabez Chow, with white gloves and a white tie onto him; and behind him was his brother, broth-er, Plummer Chow, ditto; and t'other side was Sally Post, all rigged up in white, with a bouquet, for bridemaid; and between them was Dominie Chalmers, Chal-mers, that had baptized her; and next him was Dominie Brown, from Porter-town; Porter-town; and all over the garden was scat- j tered the fust residents of the village, and all the little boys and gals waa perched on the fences; and the man with melons had stopped his cart to see the spectacle for such it waa and there was Squire Peeler, justice of the peace, perched on top of the wood shed "a-waiting my turn fur to act in this ' here case, ladies and gentlemen," he says , in them there oommandimj tones of his'n. Well, when Corianna saw all this she turned first red and then white. We la- , dies all kissed our hands to her, and the . jedge atop the wooeVohed be h'isted his I hat. The rest of the men all took off theirs, and the dominie be turned around and lifted up his hand, and commenced to talk jest a ef he was in meetin'. When he came to aakin' enether there ureses that could .a ye a hard last night puttin' up them fastening fasten-ing and I want stren'thenin', Corianna." She jest looked at him when he said that. She didn't durst trust herself to say nothin'. She had ideas that she was skcerful of puttin' into language, seen' she was speakin' to her ma's pa. and he risin' eighty. But all alio got by that was these here cruel words: "Don't goggle at me, Corianna. It's worse than sassin'." So while she was a-fryin' the cakes she kept sayin' over, and over to herself: "Now I lay me," and "Twinkle, twinkle, little star," to keep back her nat'ral wickedness. She'd slaved for that old man and she'd been fond of him, and 1 this is what had come of it. She told us B 11 this through the holo in the shutter. We got kinder scared, you know, seoin' ';he house shut up, and went to call, but didn't get let in; but artera while, when we'd knocked and knocked a spell to the front door and the side door, we went round to the back, and there was poor Corianna's face a-stickin' out of the holo in the shutter. The tears rolled down her cheeks as she told u.s the story, and we had to cry, too, me and Miss Pinney, and" Miss Peters and Maria Brown. Maria Brown she was just proposm' breakin' down the door andcarryin' pool Corianna off when a upstairs shutter opened and Granther Peeks poked his head out. "See here, folkses," said he, "a man has a right to keep his house shet or open as be pleases, and to order his wim-min wim-min folks as he sees fittin. oa tech bolt, or bar, or lock, or hook onmy premises, prem-ises, and I'll shoot you down fust and have you took up for burglars afterward, and I'd hev the Law on my side, tu. Then he showed us a big hoss pistol, and savs he, "It's loaded," and we attend. But I wrote on a piece of paper, "1 11 tell Jabez " and gave it up to Conanna, pre-tendin'tokissher pre-tendin'tokissher good-by. And never was I so thankful that I oilers carried a Dentil in mv pocket for new recipes. For sh' seeded comfort, and I guess themeherahttle. I kept my premise, and that night Jabez pranced about the house, but couldn't get a peep tt her- No re he conMtf .fOT fU; Die of days. But at last he thought of Kn' throngha fish horn- jjerewas anything Granther Peeks hked it was ShTSo he says to Corianna, "Peck out, Sry, 7nd Jef that's shad; ahad's in season.". 'TOA'S wedding. Ian Jabez Chow came courtin' Oo-o Oo-o Dowry, Granther Peeks waa jest as hops. You see, Corianna she pt house for grandther quite a j She wasn't overly young, and he 'want to spare her, she made such Piddle cakes. 1 was very fond of griddle cakes, dnt teeth to eat nothing hard, and ade 'em for him for breakfast, din-tod din-tod supper. Sometimes she made 'Wn, sometimes sweet. Sometimes rolled jell up into 'em. Sometimes 'ot hash into 'em. They was a great ty, and they was always good. So 1 Jabez Chow purposed, and Cori-accepted Cori-accepted him, granther said "No," . said how he'd cuss her if she dis-Hlhim. dis-Hlhim. j w Corianna could have done what ' minter for all Granther Peeks; SIsaid, she was risen thirty. But v a pious gal, and she felt as if father's cuss would sort of blight 3 w told Jabez she couldn't marry 'Mow until granther either died or only she wasn't able to help her-1 '"n meetin' him after granther had 1 to bedjust where the punkin imed onter the blueberry medder, old popler grew. Well, some , snk or other went and told about it, and he got up out of J and follered her one night, and ei& kisain' each other. a real bad tempered old gen-tt gen-tt wanther Peeks was, and when a ftathejust np and cussed her! y and drove her home with his 'eshe was a pig, after hitting v-tjow over the head with it Ja- ' ' durst hit back on account of and granther knew he wouldn't 1 "8 drove Corianna, and when he r to hum there was the old boy to n may be sure. Corianna was " ef her heart would break. ! cussed me, granther," -ehe kept and now it don't n&ke no mat-at mat-at 1 do. Seein I'm cussed. Til J11' Jabez Chow any way. What's ;of not doing it now?' ( " Granther Peeks, he felt he'sl j |