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day terrestrial and the other aouaceousg 70
neet Of foot as Harriet was on the land ssh
couid only make a I. tie " at best with Patrick
u.ln The water Patrick couldn't hold candI,
70 her. alesS siss8elE sse ~ mSaebasss
At length Harry began to suspect that Iar
ret and Patrick were getting over fond. so one
morning he paraded all his impleEsents Of wal
onsthe table of his tenement, and summoned
'he lovers to appear in his presence. Thew
came and Patrick, when he saw the fearfnl
array OF weapons, and the star chamber coun-
.enance Of the paternal Judge, trembled from
heaa % loot and his heart failed within him. s
80 what are your pretensions to that oal
there, - yous'' inquired Harry. Nj sfssiSss
2 "id marry her, said Pat, q If was only a
citizen but | haven't got my papers out vet.
your honor.n f. ssa4 - iasa7f -
And what business had you TO think Of mar.
fylng her when you amt a citizen 20 qneried
iiarry' " but citizen or no citizen, You shall
MARI her, BY thunder /" 4 ssse,sy.ss ss & suss
e fatrlck said he would, if he must but a
stout Norwegian, who rushed in at the mo-
ment, swore by the gods of bis fathers that he
shouldn't. "Hi," quoth the Norwegian. who
was known among the oystermen of the Gulf
as Peter, and who sometimes paid clandestine
visits to the island, hi lubs Harriet mineself
hand mine poat and my heart hi gibs to her,
toysters his nice, put not more nice his Har-
rleti and dolphins, wen you catches dem. his
purity, but not SO purity as she is. Ho, mine
lubly Harriet, rush TO thine Peters harms %"
Old Harry, Harriet and Patrick were all
startled by the theatrical and earnest manner
IN which Peter delivered himself, and after
certain explanations were made, the case was
to the fair one herself.
She mnocently observed that if she had TO
get married she would as soon have Peter as
my body She had been on board of his
BOAT many time when her father knew
nothing about it and as for Pat there. he was
well enough to run races and swim with. bpt
hats all she cared about him, Such. in sub.
tance, were Harriet's remarks. .t. =.
Old Harry, seeing how things were going.
wore that it was call right" and administer.
ID to each horn of whiskey in honor to the $
omlng nuptials, and after this Harriet did in :
eed rush to her Peters " harms.''
Our obese friends pleasure yacht was called i
nto requlsitlon to take the wedding party to +
'lloxl, where the nuptial knot was to be tied =
nd queerer party never set out on snch =
llssion. The bride was drrayed in a coarse Q
lctory wrapper, with neither bonnet to her v
cad nor shoes to her feet but she showed no z
onsciousness of any imperfection, or want of I
Ompleteness in her bridal habilments. She +
'as clad IN robe of native innocence. and +
'as as free from hypocrisy as the cooing dove. {
When the party arrived at Biloxi, some citv I
ldies took it upon themselves to put the bride Il
! more fashionable trim, and while thew were II
repairing her dress she was amusing herself u
18th an accordeon she had picked up, and O
ondering at her image in the hotel mirror. "
Eventually her long locks were combed out q
nd put into form, rings were placed on her s.
ngers, and white raiment on her person, and A
hen she looked into the glass again, she hard D
knew herself She was then led to the altar O.
I'd she and Peter became one flesh" G.
Time would fail us to tell how the bride and d
room were accompanied back to the Island bv is
ir fat friends and number of city ladies, and 8,
'w the wedding fete was kept up amid fun 6
I'd ffolic for many day and night. .Iono :,
ay the descendants of Peter and Harriet :,
,ursh on Horn Island.