CLIMBING A CHIMNEY
BRIDE AND WEDDING MORN. A pretty Irish “ colleen ” who i‘limbed the chimney of her bedroom on her wedding morning to meet Rollover at the altar is the heroine of a recent Donegal romance. The girl's parents objected to tbo match, "ami locked her in her room, bidding her give up hope of marrying the man on whom she had set her heart. When the girl’s wedding morning came, however, she dressed herself for the ceremony, climbed up the sooty chimney to the roof of her home, and lowered herself carefully by the rainpipe io the ground. She ran to the near-by village of Laghey, where 5)10 hired a motor car, and drove to the church at full speed, arriving ns the bridegroom stood waiting at the steps of the altar. Tbo ceremony proceeded without interruption.
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Evening Star, Issue 19023, 19 August 1925, Page 4
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138CLIMBING A CHIMNEY Evening Star, Issue 19023, 19 August 1925, Page 4
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