Mail Order Bride

Mail Order Bride - Second Edition

Mammy used to say that if Willie North could bottle his ugliness, he would have several jars full.  Despite his lack of good looks, Willie was a kind soul and a hardworking hog farmer, who owned a prosperous farm along the Muddy Fork River.

Pa told us that he met up with Willie in town yesterday and Willie told him he had ordered himself a woman out of a catalog.  She was due to arrive in about two weeks.

After Pa told us about this strange state of affairs, Ma started laughing her head off.  She said it must be near the end of time if folks had to resort to ordering wives out of catalogs.  “You mean to tell me old pig nose Willie has bought himself a woman from a catalog?”  Ma had a fit of the giggles and could not stop laughing.  Pa told Mammy it wasn’t funny, and that every man deserved a woman, even a round, fat, ugly man such as Willie.

“Poor Willie,” said Pa.  “I feel sorry for him, living alone on that farm of his, all by himself.  He doesn’t even have any kinfolks in these parts to visit him.  A man gets lonesome after his day’s work is done, when he’s sitting on his porch stoop, watching the cows roaming the pastures.  It’s like the good book says – 'A man should not be alone.'”

Pa told us about the prospective bride Willie had ordered from the catalog. 

“He showed me a picture of the woman,” Pa said,

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Verlag: BookRix GmbH & Co. KG

Texte: Stanley Mcqueen
Bildmaterialien: Stanley Mcqueen - Designed by BookRix Team
Lektorat: Valerie Byron
Tag der Veröffentlichung: 16.04.2013
ISBN: 978-3-7309-2335-1

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