A Furious Bridegroom.
A wedding, held at South Melbourne recently, had a rather lively termination. The bride was young, and very handsome in her wedding finery ; the <rroom was a middle-aged, stern-browed, practical, hard fisted individual, with a squint and a large area of baldness. The best man, who was young and somewhat fascinating, with a bold, blue eye, and a drooping, straw-colored moustache. When the ceremony was through, and it only remained for the bridegroom to kiss the bride, the former seemed unaware of what was expected of him, and failed to come up to time, whereupon the best man promptly stepped in, took the blushing bride to his shirt front, and planted a hard and fast kiss just where it would do the most good. The elderly, ugly groom was flabbergasted for a moment Then he said : " Well, I'm ," aud, drawing off, landed the best man right on the bridge of his imperious Roman nose, fetching him down with the usual dull, sickening thud, and giving him two lovely black eyes. The curtain fell on a tableau—clergyman and the bride's brothers and father holding back the infuriated groom, and trying to soothe him with soft words; bride in a picturesque fit on the bosom of her mother, and two kind friends leading out the blind and battered best man. /'v.'.'-'
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Cromwell Argus, Volume XXVII, Issue 1374, 27 August 1895, Page 3
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222A Furious Bridegroom. Cromwell Argus, Volume XXVII, Issue 1374, 27 August 1895, Page 3
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