The Bridegroom's Perfunctory Promise.
The groom entered alone and said con fidcntially — •
"Do you use the word ' obey ' in your mamago service, Mr — — ?" "No," said the minister. "I do not usually." "Well," said the expectant benedict, "I have come to ask you to marry me now, and I want it used."
"Certainly," replied the other. "It shall foe done," and presently the couple stood solemnly betoie him. "James- T ," said the_ clergyman, "do you take this woman to Le your wedded wife?"
"I do."
"Do you absolutely promise to love, to honour," and obey her so long as you both shall live?"
Horror and rebellion struggled with the sanctities oi the occasion on the bridegroom's face, but he chokingly responded : "I do," md the meek bride decorously promised in her turn
After the ceremony was over tho bridegroom said excitedly aside to the grave minister :
"You misunderstood me, sir, you misunderstood me ! I referred to the woman promising to obey.' "Ah, did you, indeed?" serenely answered his reverence. "But I think what is good for one side is good for the other, don't you? And, my friend, it is my advice to you to say nothing about it, for as an old married man, I can tell you you'll have to obey anyhow."' — New York Woman's Journal.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2456, 10 April 1901, Page 69
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