Republican vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1857, 1855-09-22
NO 80
EDITOR Dreaming on Wedding Caks.

Il batcheief editor GU. West who had re
ceived from The fair hand OF q bride piece
OF elegant wedding cake 10 dream On, thu.
gives the result OF bis experience:
We PIT: il under the head OF our piiIo.
shut cur eyes sweetly as an infant. and
blessed with an easy conscience soon snoI :.
ed prodigiousiy. The god Of aIeans ses,-
y touched IT,, and 10! in fancy ~s wsfs
married. Never was the little editor so
happy. Il was "my love-" dearest sweet
est, ringing in our cara every moment
Oh !! that the dream had broke en- cd here
But no, some evil genius p1t into tie head
Of our duckY TO have pudding for d,nasf,
just to please her lord.
IN d hungry dream we sa, down TO din
ner. Well, the pudding moment arrived,
and hugy slice almost ebscured frsm sigh
the plate before US.
"My dear said he fondly, ibid you
make thls7"
"fes, love, aint it nice -
"Glorious-the best bread pudding ever
tasted in IN, life
Plum pudding, duckv," suggested mn
| wife. =
20, no, dearest, bread pudding, s!ways
was fond Of Gen.
Call that bread pudding! exclaimed
my wife, while her lips slightly curied
with contempt.
"Cer.ainly my dear-rerkon I've had
enough at the Sherwood House to know
| bread pudding my love, by oil means"
"Husband--shis is really too hsd-plum
pudding is twice as hard to max e IS bread
pudding and is more expensive, aud 10 .
great deal better. say this is plum pud-.s
ding and my pretty wife's brow flushed
with excitement
My love, my sweet, ny dear love-" ex~
claimed we. soo,hingly. do not get angry.
I'm cure ITS very good, if il is bread pud.
| ding"
you mean, low wretch, iercely replied
| my wife in higher tone, you know it 10
plum pudding
geiher, and so badly burned, that the devil
himself wouldn't know it. tell you, mad
am, most distinctly and empLaticAlly, and |
vii uot be contradicled, that ii, is bread
pudding and the meanest kind at that"
"li is plum pudding shrieked my wife,
as SITE hurled glass Of laret in my face
the glass itself tapping the clsrst from nv
nose "
dread pudding I" gasPed we, pluck to
the last, and grasping u roasted chicken by
the left leg.
Plum pudding" rose above the din. Is
had distinct perception Of feeling two
plates smash across nv head.
Bread puddingi" I've groaned ia q rage
as the chicken leis my hand, aud living
with swift wing across the table, landed ia
| msdsm's bosom.
Opium pudding J" resounded the war CRY
from the enemy, as the gravy dish took Us,
where we he'd been depositins the first part
OF our dioner, and plate of bee:s landed
upon our white vest.
BREAD pudding forever shouted we. in
defiance, lodging the soup iuresn, snd fall
ipg beneath lis contents.
"fiam pudding - yelled toe smiable
spouse. as noticing our misfortune, she de-
.ernineo to keep ns down BY pilin, UPON
our head the dishes with 20 gsnteei hand.
Then IL rapid succession followed the war
cites. Plum pudding" she shrieked with
every dish.
"nread pudding'" in smothered toue.
saIne up from the pile in reply. Then it
ras plum pudding 10 rapid succession thu
last cry growing feebler, ill just as lean
distinctly recoIect, it had grown 10 whis-
per. Plum pudding rssoanded like thus
der, followed By tremendous CRASH, a. my
wife les9ed upon the pile with her delicate
ieet, and commenced jumping up.aad down
when thank Heaven We swose, and
thus saysd our HE. We shall never dream
on wedding cake again-thsts the moral.