Moonshine Whiskey Wedding

Next week will be a happy day for us Turners. My oldest sister, Linda Kay, is getting hitched. She found herself a big shot to marry. He’s a store clerk down at our little township, which is called Cozy Corner. With thirteen kids romping around our little shack, Pa is awful glad one is going to be leaving the roost.

We Turners are poor folk, probably the poorest in this part of Muddy Fork County. Pa grows corn, and we have a few hogs and three milk cows. Pa says we’re lucky having that much. Linda Kay is the oldest of our brood. She’s eighteen, and a right pretty gal. Ma says she is the lucky one, finding herself a working man who has a purse with money in it. Ma wants the two of them to be married in front of our shack, and she wants all the neighbors to come and witness her first daughter’s wedding.

Pa thinks it’s sort of crazy to have such a wedding, and thinks that a quick ceremony with the Reverend Bishop officiating will do just as well. Pa says they don’t have a long ceremony at a burying…they just cover the dead up and that’s that.

The wedding’s set for this coming June, and Pa needs to have fifty dollars saved to buy vittles for the big day. Ma wants to hire a baker in Cozy Corner to make a pretty cake to set before the guests who are invited to the wedding. Pa works part time at a sawmill that sits just a little way from the Cozy Corner Township. I

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Verlag: BookRix GmbH & Co. KG

Texte: Stanley Mcqueen
Bildmaterialien: Cover Design: Rebecca Bowslaugh
Lektorat: Valerie Byron
Tag der Veröffentlichung: 25.10.2012
ISBN: 978-3-86479-865-8

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