Show A CRACKER WEDDING WE DOUiS clad in coarse cotton shirt and nd jeans pints pants heavy homemade home made noes boas and a slouch wool list bat roger cr a fall loose jointed ram rambling bIllig weak legged cracker krampa trampa along im a thin winding path that shows brightly in ilia shino like along alon bright zig across tho the de doa id brown carpe t of wira grass thread under the great pines lie ile can les lea sit an old fiddle fadd u under tinder his harm arm and whistles in in an car splitting fashion hasty baity snatch ei from ft a favorite local air old granny rattletrap it il Is dawir ilay day and ito ho ll is either going ing or to a dance lie bo hasi he a lila his bhones on oil dovi down n in that corner 0 f neither sex wear shoos shoes regularly ex x copt perhaps tor for about a month or on ewh side of 0 christmas christinas during iho rest of tho the car those thoo pedal ornaments aro are a part pa pf their it Is ft a travelers trav story that filet cracker e inai maidens dens run barefoot bare toot through the baw like wiro wire ars un until it cu cull iho he sp aco between their toes toc entirely back to their ankles and their toca aro are often us as long as their lingers fingers constant Con stint exposure to I 1 ilia heat or of elioso arid sands linds calls cagnon alio llio solos of the mens feet to split lato into groat bracki and am ti in which crickets find sato safe refuse retugio and live said and increase their kind in fit such great abundance tint to 10 obtain ush balt in abo spring of tho the 3 loarl oar it tia Is only necessary lor for a native to taip I 1 Les heavily vily on oil the ground and jar ihu t crickets out when lie ha falls to dislodge them the iho cracker il if hu he la is real anxious 0 0 go lishing lis liing Ill illnesses lunac nerses rica in bater ater this last Is I 1 an all oil resort however and Is never doia as long as ran bo be avoided our friend rip tramps heavily on oil avith lis hla brauny Urai iny rattletrap accad cut at until ito ho comes to a small ono one boora house iu in thu midst ot of a small clearing A lumber ol of long thin looking 5 cling falows about aho door alternately urging one another to HO go in during the wook weak these piney woods men and malda meet ind and greet e cseh ch other without tho iho reserve rc its howdy bill unit and lloy llo Y lii notice a shidow ot of restraint but buco they put on oil gieir store clothes and scant their red 0 vory tang is changed I 1 ill ll li bash u and 1 I awkward and nancy blushes little hides her bar faco face and murmurs inaudible it Is just so this coning when rip ari an ivoa ives at the iho residence of mr austor within tho lite house fire aro a kurober of 0 girls who after lite fash lout ot of tile tho maidens of that section aro are strong rosy big boned healthy and beautiful no chihal ever A lo kooller oller form fona or ller ler face t than 20 tan it cracker malden maiden possesses during tiia years ol of her teens loons it soon fades bo however wever A lew years of childbearing child bearing and sloughing ploughing hing contrary alien changes her into a pole pale sickly looking aud biln bronsa i upon tier her a complication of f malo disorders ahaz her ignorant husband knows nothing of she drags out a weary painful existence cc and whon she dies her man inan looks about him a few in months and anc I anathon girl to the torture hips arrival with the he fidale begins tho the festl festivities Otles RIP klo arid his is fidda are tho the contral central figures of all tho the parties pir liea tor for miles around and its sweet music wins for its master tho the beaming A guilles of many a buxom maid and makes him film a 5 groat social fa al A leap heap 0 or pino knots blazes brilliantly iu in tho the great olen fireplace which mccu ps almost ono one end of the iha room about t tile hearth stand the pots pol bakers and trying pill and in the chimney on oil a rack or rane braile hangs the great dinner pot which Is alternately used for cull culinary ilary laundry slid and purposes the hig N v heel loom and lining table aro are carried out doors tile iho becq are crowded back into tho like portiere corners and the floor bloor is cleared tor for it a dance with great deliberation and dignity rip kip bulled his fiddle find and tho the fun begins abow A tow the iho bow that fairly mado made a nervous man b griek ill fil agony lony a noisy sh shu Olinc ot of heavily shod feet leoti then than throwing himself back tho addler glided glia d oil off into the iho WO arll 1 known dotes of the ibe arkansaw Ark ausaw traveler under tile iho in influence finance of simar and whisky tile tho music and magnetism of the opposite tile trien men and wornon women loso lose tho the peculiar restraint of the earlier eveni tiT ahti thin tallow faced fayod boys and the round big bosomed girls alike abandon themselves elvos to the pleasures of the hour and noise and laughter rolan supreme sup roina rome aa a tinaa progresses the iho becomes inspired willi hla own melody the tha energy of ills ilia own action baem OB dorthul and ho be throws a himself around as a man dmn flit hilua fire or a woman catch it irig a loa flat over and over again ho he has ground out the anvary Tra velor almost unheard tho the clattering clation iK of feet when without a 0 single bolcof biolo of ty ning aning lie ha stiffs into old daddy rare ahro thoa then a moment later gives gieg abom willolo in the tha gourd and end ends in III an exhausted and collapsed condition with his 1113 own favorite orito which wo wa havo heard beard before old granny rattletrap 11 As no ono one olio present can play tho the fiddle and as ad rip pip must of course tako taka part in the exercises exorcises it Is decided to play awhile A ring Is formed with wi ih fresh partners all around aud and tho the play of at sugar slid and tea Is ou on the board at mr Eus Ru lors to sit an inexperienced but audious observer it seemed to bo be a mixture of a breakdown break down reel and a with wish additional and pleasant not included in either of these there h 1 no holding back or mock modesty now but every ono present enters into the iho play as if it were a matter of ufa life or death iti it begins with the first steps of a coLt cotillion Mon all ill singing nging come bolh al down 9 most wd toa but bui changes fa n it a moment when rip kip cries out oat aai swing ing and hero they aboy all go round right and loft left singing corn come rolling do don a my dirling darling ech each couple ts es they meet kissing on tho the wing ing as 3 it wore were until tho the circuit I 1 mado and meet again whon when at all I 1 ang filing corns come rolling to ID your truo loves lot jams and go whirling around in III an infernal gallop that would turn the head slid aud break tho icae ago ot of any other othor people on earth ill all hugging bugg lui and klasing ad nau seam to the concluding line A rolling hr berm till Boru moru iaz luz when tho the play baratt rip invariably opened his arms amis to miss rutha fustar his bit fiancee sad and long bog ajmo as his particular chaleo in ill tho the sugar and tea line and she ho calao caico roll ing inc down to his embrace and returned d his hl kisses with b saturated solution of sweetened snuff but bill later on mother another young lady entered tho the play nod and trouble began between abo tb lovers the tha now new comer was a pale paio thin bacod duk dark eyed girl who had doubtless uen boon much prettier prattler than sho she was much younger bhe was wan still charming however ans in a certain wy way nud and that chanced to bo be ail almost fatal wy way for our rip sho she was to teach school down at rep hep rip soon to lair nod and of courto course na as 3 a society leader he ha felt that it was his duty this evening to entertain b her ar and nd laako mho her bor 11 and this be boat at once proceeded todo to ao 30 with such success that miss ml tusha rua budig nailus resented it at the iho conclusion ot at tho the play of sugar and tea tc supper was wa announced the table stood under a pino troa tree out ocl in tho the front yard loaded with substantial roast pork dark pu pumpkin pita piol cakes rm tards and ul ckon fixings in endless abundance and black coffeo coffee in floods jt it seemed a wonderful thing to lo sea such a feast in III such anch a birco pirco at a more frolic but a greater surprise awaited the makers at tho the head of texi tibia table stood person aresu who ly pronounced a blessing and led ird to la the attack on tho the chic chicken ken combinations mill arid became a spectator tho the evening As tho the clock struck 10 1 and sunday tamo came in rip elp stopped lis hit bow hali balf way across P ross ills his fiddle a frago tont of 0 the ilia arkansas coaled folt fd away on tho the breeze and abisa iss who bad bron been absent supper entered file room clotted in a white whilo dress with flow lai lair ribbons rip carefully put his bis fiddle away and stood up beside nor her thon then the assern bled company coin pany realized who what the presence at 0 the bo parson mount thoro was going to bo be a wedding 1 I bellevo old up all them klicin catin d s lor for not liln said homo ono guess ass mullans asid au borrah for rip cried it dozen voices tho the lu falter had concluded the service w you tin an rubia will klopp over I 1 up ip sald mrs mra iduster whet the tha crowd bad departed ill an arly lit in the tuon ilu said mr brustur froin troi n among the bed clothes 1 cause me ino an rip kip winster go eo down on tile river an too soo about gittin out sonio board timber an all viell tako our hooks along an catch suino fish whilo while were down that then a a bright latea into tho the mind of or anios big brother brol mho isho la 13 1 linb ing on 0 a pallet a the open fireplace and lie alks 1 I say tuh luh howd you yell like silts NI till I 1 datoc abil parents lead lit in tin an applauding laugh which la Is echoed till all over tile alio I 1 oom loom but bat radia makes no ito reply she to la quito find and in smiling silence as ler bright big brother slugs lor for tier benefit the lue words worda of the silly ally play song son come don a Di direct tweet reet sugar Au agarand Arand and tea lea como rolling doa ion D my darlane dArl daril lne riv come came rolling in trout tru loves love arms A zolling till lilt inocito nomas hennas colquitt in fit brandon Rai hamer lifter |