The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1881-11-29 00:00:00

HARRY IN HASTE, REPENT A2' LEISURE."

To gAc ikitior.

Bir,—The old adage says—" Marry in haste end repent
at leisure ;" but • case that has just occurred Within • few
miles of Dorchater stio•a that repentemmr follow• • hasty
marmite very quickly 41111•LICIMIL Truth, they say, is
sometimes stranger than fiction, and my informant arum
me that the following tale is true, and I give it for what
it ot worth, hooted text it will act as a caution to thoee
who are about to get married; that they may try and II od
out whether they are really in love, or suffering from
indigestioa or liver complaint :—" It seems Wit • young
labouring man, who lived with his penults in • pretty
little village a short distance from Dorchester, one day
felt • sudden pain in his stomach, or on the onset, and,
twit knowing exactly where his heart lay, thought that
Cupid had shot hits Is that vital part, so that It became
• fixed ides, and, in spite of the advice of his friends to
try • course or physic, he insisted that he was "marriage
musk." His mother, and even his younger brother, per.
suadad him 'amnia such • meri mural, but all to no pur-
pose; he hurried off to • female acquaintance, whom he had
known but • few months, and told his complaint to her
she sympathised with him, and sympathy begat love, and
love sald they ought to be married. So they were
mimed in due form, and duly installed in a °cottage on
• gentleman's estate near Moreton, and If the wishes of
his aeighboure had prevaikKl, he and his wife would, se
we read in novels, have lived happily all their liven
There is not only many • slip betwixt the cup and the
lip, hut admen that cup that seems so sweet at first con-
tains • bitter draught to • disordered stomach, and in this
CAN produced sickness—hoots sickness—a yearning after
the soothing mid oomfortiar voice of the maternal relative
be had !attend although he and his wife were soup's,/to be
one, yet so selfish was he that he took his half to the old
home on every opportunity, leaving her to enjoy herself
as best she could amongst strangers, andw About complain.
' lug she bore her lonely lot until • few days ago, when
the and come rather unexpectedly, the gentleman for
isome reason or other discharged bun, and he was to leave.
He hurried off to let his friends know of his troubl.,
end on returning the night after found his wife in bed. He
ttlither out, and told her to go where she liked, saying
had the same old home to go to, and that he should
take his furniture there. The young wile dating the short
time she has been in toe village has on the respect of
her neighbours, and forma/Ally found a (dead to give
her temporary shelter, thinking it would all blow over in
the morning, but true to his word, begot • horse and cart
and pecked up his sticks as he called Mem, and took them
to his mother's house whore he will no doubt be more at
bonus than with strangers, and such ass the admiration
of the villagers, at Ms treatment of his wife that they
hung Sage out of their windows, and gave him a hearty
salute with camp kettles—and so ends for the prompt his
three months of married life"