The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1853-09-22

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THE TwO-PENNY MARRIAGE.
.Mr. Pease, we want to be married.
Want to be married-what for?'
why, you see. we don't think it is
right for us to be living together in this
way.any longer, and we have been talk
ing over the matter to-day and you must
see
Yes, yes, see, you have been talking
over the matter over the bottle, and have
come to the conclusion to get married.
When you get sober you will both repent
of it probably
3 No, sir, we are not so very drunk now
not SO drunk but that we can think, and
we don't think we are doing right-we
are'not Ioing as we were broughtup to do
by pious parents. We have been reading
about the good things you have done for
just such poor outcasts as we are, and we
want you to try and do something for us.
Read? Can you read? Do you read
the Bibls?' s. i.-6 70 2a@
We'll not much lately. but we read the
newspapers, and sometimes we read some
times we read something good in them
How can we read the Bible when we are
drunk?'
DO you think getting married will keep
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you from getting drunk?'
Yes, for we are going to take the pledge
too--and we shall keep it, depend upon
that ~
Suppose you take the pledge and try
that first, and if you can keep it till you
can wash some of the dirt away, and get
some clothes on, and then I will marry
youl'
No; that won't do. Ishall get to think.
ing what a poor miserable wretch / am,
and how I am living with this woman,
who is not bad woman by nature, and
then / viii drink, and then she will drink
--oh, cursed rum land what is to pre-
vent us? But if we were married, nv
wife. yes. Mr.. Pease, my wife would say,
'Thomas'-she would not say Tom
you dirty brute, don't be tempted and
who knows but we might be somebody
yet-somebody that our own mothers
would not be. ashamed Of
Here the woman, who had been silent
and rather moody, burst into violent
flood Of tears, crying
Mother, mother, know not whether
she is alive or not, and dare not enquire
but if we were married and reformed,
would make her happy once more
I could no longer stand the appeal,
said Mr.. p, 'and determined to give them
a trial. have married a good many
poor, wretched looking couples, but none
that looked quite SO much SO as this
The man was hatless and shoeless, with.
out coat or vest, with long hair and beard
grimmed with dirt. He was by trade a
bricklayer, one of the best in the city
She wore the last remains of. a silk bon.
net, and something that might pass fol
shoes, and an old, very old dress, once 9
merino, apparently without any under
garments
And your name is Thomas Tbomas
what?'i y
Elting, sir. Thomas Elting, good
true name and true man--that is, it shall
be, if you marry u.s. ~
We'll, well. l am going to marry
you.
Are you? There, Mag, told yov
so.' a s4.
Don't call me Mag. If am going tc
be married, will be by my right name
the one my mother gave me-
Mot Mag. Well, Inever knew that
ssiNow, Thomas. hold your tongue, yo'
talk too much - -e etsT
What is your name?'
q Matilda. Must tell the other? Yes
will, and will. and / will never disgrac,
it.. don't think l should have been al
bad if / had kept it. That bad woman
who first tempted me, made me take
false name. 1t is a bad thing for a girl t.
give up her name, unless for that Of
good husband. Matilda Fraley. No
body knows me by that name in this ba'
city .hali 9' 9ef
- Very well Matilda and Thomas, tax
each other BY the right hand, and look a
me, for am going to unite youin the ho
iy bond of marriage by Gods ordinance
Doyou think you are sufficiently sober t
comprehend its solemnity?'
Yes, sir.'
Marriage being one of Gods holy or
dinances. cannot be kept in sin, misery
9Th and drunkenness. Thomas viii Yol