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Even ef we fails 'atter all, hit hain't because we didn't try hard and we hain't done yit." Two of the men to whom she spoke were gazing at her with rapt eyes. O'Keefe was riding on that moonlit night at the gallop of bold dreams, and in his mind were visions of wedding and infare.
She can not manage the "infare" unless Susan comes home and helps. So she drops the affairs of government long enough to skim across the State and lend a hand in preparing for this interesting event, and then back again to her incessant drudgery, made doubly hard by financial anxiety.
"When I'm a child, an' before ever I connects myse'f with the cow trade, if thar's a weddin', we-all has what the folks calls a 'infare, an' I can remember a old lady from the No'th who contreebutes to these yere festivals a drink she calls 'sprooce beer. An' pulque, before it takes to frettin' an' fermentin' 'round, in them pigskins, reminds me a mighty sight of that sprooce beer.
The older women spread the viands for the "infare," as the wedding dinner was called, upon the table, and we stood about it to eat amid shouts and laughter and an exchange of wit as good natured as it was horrifying to bridal ears.
"Go on, seh, go on. Don't let me amba'as you. I wants jess on'y my civil rights. Go on, seh." She set her arms akimbo. "A jamboree!" repeated Leviticus, giving himself a yet more benevolent dignity. "Well, you know, Miss Barb, to ev'ything they is a season, an' a time to ev'y puppose. A wedd'n' is a wedd'n', a infare is a infare, a Chris'mus dinneh is a Chris'mus dinneh!
Gelatin in fruit jellies I never use it increases the product sensibly, but that is more than offset by the decrease in quality. It was no trouble at all to make occasions. Indeed, the greatest of them, weddings, really made themselves. A wedding made imperative an infare that is to say, if the high contracting parties had parental approval.
Maybe I had better explain that infare meant the bride's going home to her new house, or at least her new family. This etymologically the root is the Saxon faran, to go, whence come wayfaring, faring forth and so on. All this I am setting forth not in pedantry, but because so many folk had stared blankly upon hearing the word which was to me as familiar as word could be.
The dreams were supposed to be truly related next day at the infare but I question if they always were. Perhaps the magic worked and in this wise the person dreamed of took on so new a significance, the difference was quickly felt. But this is a cook book with reminiscent attachments, not a treatise on psychology. The table held only the kickshaws cakes, candy, nuts, syllabub and custard.
I wish you could have been here to drive out to the infare at her pa's house two nights after the weddin'. It was the biggest ever held on that side of the river, and as for the shiveree, my Lord, it WAS something to talk about. Tin cans, cowbells, shot-guns, tenor-drums, but I'm keeping you, Mr. Gwynne. You'll find water in that jug over there, and a towel by the lookin' glass.
Full she drad that God the Wreaker all mankind would fordo with water for his evil sins. Christ's rood made she on breastbone and him drew that he would rathe infare under her thatch. That man her will wotting worthful went in Horne's house. Loth to irk in Horne's hall hat holding the seeker stood.
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