THE "BRIDLE" CHAMBER.
He was tall and awkward, and she was short and bashful; both wore a nervous aspect of exceeding great joy. They entered a hotel in St. Louis, and, after he had registered his name "and lady," he said to the clerk, "Se her« mister, me and my wife have just been spliced, and I am going to show Amanda the town if it takes a mule a day; Now give us one of them rooms like the Temple of Solomon, you know." The clerk called to a hall boy and said, "Show this gentleman to the bridal chamber." At this the tall rustic became instantly ex cited. "Not by along shot! Ye shinyhaired, biled-shirted, dollar-breastpinned, grinning monkey, you can't play that on me! If I am from the country, ye don't catch me and my wife lodging in your doggoned old harness room." " How greedy you are!" said one little girl to another, who had taken the best apple in the dish; "I was going to take that."
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Evening Star, Issue 4942, 4 January 1879, Page 3
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171THE "BRIDLE" CHAMBER. Evening Star, Issue 4942, 4 January 1879, Page 3
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