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welded wife %
-, Yes, SIR
You promise that you will live with her, in
sickness as well as health, and nourish, protect
and comfort her as your true and faithful wife
that you will be 10 her atrue and faithful husband
aud that ycu will not get drunk, and will clothe
yourself and keep clean.
so l will
Never mind answering till get through
You promise TO abstain totally from every
kind Of drink tha, intoxicates, and treat this wo-
man kindly ard affcctionately, and love her as
husband should love his welded wife, Now
all of this will you, here before me as the SER
want Of the Most high-here in the sight of
God in Heaven most fulhfully promise, if
give you this woman to be your welded wife,?
Yes, will
And you, Matilda, on your part, will you
promise the same, and be true wife to this
man 2
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But do you promise all this faithfully q
Yes sir, will"
Then pronounce you man and Wife
Now, Thomas says the new wife, after
had made out the certificate and given it to
her with an injunction 10 keep it safely--now
pay Mr.. Pease, and let us go home and break
The bottle,
Thomas felt first in the right hand pocket.
then the left, then back to the right--then he
examined his watch fob. .......
why, where is it p says she, you rad two
dollars this morning.
f.. Yes, know it but have only got two cents
this evening There Mr.. Pease, take Ahem, it
is all I'have got in the world ; what more can
l give ??
& Sure en- ugh, what could he do more l
took them and prayed over them, that in part
ing with the last penny, this couple might have
parted with a wicked foolish practice which had
reduced them to such degree of poverty and
wretchedness, that the monster power of rum
could hardly send its victims lower.
So Tom and Mag were transformed into Mr..
and Mrs Elting, and having grown somewhat
sober while in the house, seemed to fully un-
derstand their new position and.all the obliga-
tions they had taken upon themselves.
For few days l thought occasionally of
this two penny marriage, and then it became
with a thousand other scehes of
which have witnessed since |
have lived in this centre Of city misery, Time
wore on and married many other couples
often those who came in their carriage and left
a golden marriage fee delicate way Of Civ
ing to the needy-but among all had never
performed the rite for couple quite so low
as that Of this two-penny fee, and | resolved l
never would again. At length however had
a call for full match to them, which | refus-
ed. 80
"Why doyou come to me to be married my
friend?" said to the man. "You are both to
poor to live seperate, and besides you are both
terrible drunkards, know you are"
"That is just what we want to get married
'or, and take the pledge"
Take that first"
"No, we must all together, nothing else will
,ave us"
"Why that?"
ut did one Of my friends"
"We, then, 60 and bring that friend to me;
ct me see and hear how much it saved him;
md will make up my mind. what to do; If
,an do you any good want to do it,"
MY friend is at work-he has got good
OBJ and several hand working for him and
money, and won't gut till night :
Shall come this evening"
"Yes will stay at home and wait for
you."
little expected to see him again, but about
o'clock the servant said that gentleman and
aly were waiting in the reception room.
old him to ask the lady and gentleman to walk
Up to the parlor and sit mo nent, while sent
he candidates for marriage away, being deter
mined never to to unite another drunken coup
e, not dreaming that there was any sympathy
between the parties, But they would not
,ome up; they wanted to see that couple mar
lied. ..Eg...,
So went down and found the squalldly
pair in company with we'll dressed
aboring man, for he wore 6ne black coat,
,ilk vest, gold watch chain, clean white shirt
and cravst, polished calf skin boots; and his
wife was just as neat and tidy dressed as any
body's wife, and her face beamed with lnlelll.
gence, and the way in which she clung to the
arm of her husband, as she seemed to shrink
from my sight, told that she was loving as
well as pretty wife.
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