It didn't last two minutes! He just had Lucille and Ollie join
right hands and repeat the 'I will's.' He then pronounced them
man and wife, and that was the end of it. As soon as Ollie could
hand the license papers to the preacher, he gave his old horse a
slap with the reins, and off they went!"
Dorris pulled his chair over closer to the corner where Clyde
was sitting. "You just oughta've been here for their shivaree,
Clyde! Man, we made enough racket to wake the dead!"
"Yeah?"
"We didn't shivaree 'em till they moved out to themselves.
Old Ollie thought we'd forgot 'em."
"Who all was in on it?"
"Oh, me and Bess and Jim-Bo and Hi and Casey and the Hansen
girls-the whole gang of us young folks. And we took along
everything we could lay our hands on: cow bells, washtubs, five
or six syrup buckets with rocks in 'em! Captain Jones even let us
borrow that fife and bugle of his!"
"Don't forget that I was blowing Papa's hog-calling horn!"
"Yeah, Bess had that steer horn Papa's got. Man, we nearly
scared the daylights outta Ollie and Lucille! They admitted the
next day that they thought the world was coming to an end!"
"Y'all sure enough surprised 'em?"
"And how! See, we waited till about nine o'clock that
Saturday night, when we knew they'd be sound asleep.
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