A QUIET WEDDING.
" Did you attend the Biroher- Jacklong wedding out at Billy-bee Dam last nit?ht Ike P " asked the able editor of the Baw ville Clarion.
"Aw, yes!" answeredAlkali Ike, wearily "I waa thar."
" Of course there wbb a lively time, and all that?"
" Accordin' to how you looked at it. I called ib mighty slow. Outside of the regular routine and the eatin' nothin* happened wortb mentionin*.
"To be sure, the preacher and tho groom got into a row beoause the divine wanted hia pay in advance ; bub that is a common occurrence. The Bev Mr Harps is too old a bird to take any chances.
"Of course Jack Howcome, . the fiddler, had had too much, ae usual, and thia time ho fell off from the table and broke his bow arm ; Jack always waa mora trouble than he was worth.
"The bride's mother, who didn't like tho groom, anyhow, jumped on to the poor fellow's neck jest before the ceremony with a rollin' pin, and it took half a dozen of us ten minutes' hard work to tie the old lady ■ fast in a rookin' chair and carry her a few hundred yards out on the prairie. " Durin* the rumpus somebody stole the feed, and we never saw hide nor hair of it the reat of the evenin'. They accused me of it, but I was aa innercent as a lamb. I hain't that kind' of a man ; and, besides, I had a private snack of my own. " Tbat waß every blamed thing that happened, except that a deputy sheriff slid in and arrested Coyote Pete for horse . stealin' or a little authin* that way, and , some feller had a fit;
" Shucks ! Weddin's hain't noways wh**.t bhoy used to bo a few years ago. Lord ! them was the times ! But now everything iB getian' to be too J&uoh - Usj£>*, i4t&iA.j^Eajft» *
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 5256, 11 May 1895, Page 3
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313A QUIET WEDDING. Star (Christchurch), Issue 5256, 11 May 1895, Page 3
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