Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1854-05-25
Romance in Real Life.

Mr.. PRINTER: On the 25th of August,
1852, call of business led me to Wolcot-
vile, Connecticut. / was yet seven miles
short of my destination. With guide and
light wagon | went forward Seeing house
by the wayside, says Ito the driver, hold the
reins, and will inquire All was dark in
the house. I knocked at the door. In about
a minute window opened in the second sto-
ry, and female voice inquired,
Who's there 2
A stranger said |, lost in the woods.
Let me lie on the carpet or sofa will pay
you for your trouble, and thank you besides
| am in bed,' she replied.
Just where all honest folks should be at
ten o'clock at night says |.
But am alone she continued. N
So much the BETTER says / IN keep
you company.
Who are you!'
Laurie Tood, from New York. I replied.
May the Lord preserve me n she exclaim-
ed stop-Ill place a light in the passage,
and unlock the door. You sit in the parlor
\ III be with you in ten minutes
In five minutes she entered the parlor, when
we first saw one another face to face. was
hungry, and she gave me to eat thirsty, and
she gave me 10 drink; a stranger, and she
took me in There was neither sleep to our
eyes, or slumber to our eyelds, and ere the
morning sun had streaked with gold the east
ern sky, we had agreed on the preliminaries
Of treaty matrimonial.
Obstacles, apparently insurmountable, soon
interviewed, but, like other kings, princes, en-
perors, and potentatcs, we cOurted by proxy,
by go-betweens, by letters and dumb signs.-
BY the arrangements of Providence, the noun
tains were removed, without any intervention.
Immediately wrote the following, which may
serve as a guide to others in like cases, made
and provided
New YORK, 3Oth May, 1853.
DEAR MARIA: The difficulties are removed.
God willing, will be in thy house on Friday,
the 10th Of June, tell thee all about it on Sat
urday, marry thee on Sunday, and do as the
Thy true Scotchman, GRANT.
/ N. B.-Send for your brother, and make
proclamation at 8 A. M. in church, and get
married at S P. M.
1t was done in order left Peck Slip for
BRIDGEPORT at 10 "A. NJ. on The 10th Of June, by
steamboat, railroad, and Yankee wagons, ]
reached her dwelling at 10 r. M, told her all
about 1t on Saturday, was married and paid
the minister at P. M. on Sunday, the 18th,
which. closed the concern.
left her at IL A. NJ, to gather up some
corn stalks, and make other arrangements, on
Tuesday, the Nth, while went forward to
prepare a roost for my bonny bird. | arrived
in New York at II r. M on Wednesday, the
18th, having travelled stem and stern, hither
and thither, near seven hundred miles, and
hence we may infer that Love walks on the
wings of the wind, from eighteen to eighty
one.
My partner is a comely matron of forty,
Qhus meeting me half way,) was five years
married, two years widow, no family, two
inches taller, and five pounds heavier than !,
thus think have got the best Of the bargain;
a lady by birth, education, and refinement, a
daughter Of the Puritans, with mind as pure
as was the heart Of our mother Eve on the day
before Lucifer played the devil with her. In
everything but the song, she is a second edi-
ton of Jenny Lind. GRANT THoRBURN,