Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1857-09-25

near u.s. and as Mr.. Paddleford was considera-
bly, attached to Mr.. Good, he was quite willing
to be married by him. but he desired that the
ceremony should be performed from the prayer
| book.
To this Mr. Good assented, and Sally Ann, in
| her interesting meeknsss, Of course made no OBJ
| lection. So please imagine Mr. Good as having
progressed with the ceremony down to " for
| richer, or'-. and there for the present we
leave him. Now, one of Mrs Lynes' help had
taken one of the candles from the back room
into the kitchen. and little SOphy Emmons,
who had been Suddenly seized with stomach
| ache, had been carried up stairs by her mother,
and with them was taken the remaining back
room candle. Still. as the company had natu-
| rally crowded into the front room to witness the
| ceremony, these luminaries were not particu-
| larly missed But the yaller tallerS> of the
| front room had begun to burn SO dimly from an
accumulation OF charred wick, that the good
| NJ. Good had to look pretty sharp at his book
| in order to get the words correctly. Samson
Flukes. Noticing this, steps up TO one Of the can
| dies with his usual ofiicOusness, and shutting it
! too low, snuf5 il out. Thinking perhaps, OF
better luck he xt time. and not having the wit
to frat relight the exinguished one. he steps to
! the other end Of the mantel shclf. and has the
same luck with this candle with the former
| - there are, in perfect darkness, just ~
| Mr. Good (as l said beforel had got down to
- for richer, fOr''-- to be sure he managed to
get out the word " poorer but at this point
from his lack Of familiarity with the prayer-book
form, the poor man got stock, and Mr. Paddle
ford and Sally Ann were only half married.
where = tho matches where's the match
esq" inquired poor Flukes, half frightened to
death; while at the same time Mrs. Lynes's
voice could be heard yelling TO Bridget, the
servant 10 bring up candle from the kitchen
Aleck, who sat by my side. shook with sup
pressed laughter; and altoget her it was certain
ly a very cOmcal concentration Of events.
After some delay, Bridget mado her appear
ance with lighted ''yaller taller" and must
of course place il on that end Of the mantle
! shelf farthcst from Mr.. Good, on which Aleck,
who had at length succeeded in putting on a
straight face, removed ii to the end nearer the
clergyman and Immediately after lighted tho
two which had been Ha&e-extinguished. But
through all these occurrences so DtniapTOpos TO
the occasion, it happened that the worthy pas
tor lost his place in the ritual and when it is
considered that this was his first essay in mar
rying from the prayer-bOOk, who can wonder!
Sally Ann seemed almost ready to faint, and
Mr.. PaddlefOrd was 20 overwhelmed with con-
| fusion that we were quite unable to tell where
Good had left off and in order to be on the safe
side, considerable portion Of that which had
been said previous to the temporary plague of
| Egyptian darkness was repeated; and so at last
the parties were not only thoroughly married,
| but little more than married.
! When Mr.. Good took his seat, you would
| have thought he had earned his fee, for he
sweated as though he had been moving field
of wheat, and he has been heard to say that
any one wishing to get married out of book
after this will have to go to some other shop
| Deacon Marrowfat, one of the guests, has ever
! since maintained on the same strain, that the
whole chapter Of accidents that have related
| to you, was in consequence of marrying from
mi ha nor sta in oil tha
book OF Common Prayer, and says that all We
needed was a bell, to make it a regular g bell
| book and candle" operation. But every one
to his taste. When DR.. Primrose, the old
| EpiscOpalian rector at Whistletown, heard the
story, they do say he laughed ready to kill
| himself. lie shrewdly guessed that should Mr.
PaddletOrd have occasion to get married the
| second time, he would be apt to employ work
| man to perform the job, who was sufficiently
familiar with the tools TO handle them in the
dark I" Might well - he loosely said, ''set
halter to making pair OF boots "a to put the
prayer-bOok in the hands of a secretary, But
| If there a deficiency OF light at Mr.. Lync's.
| the profusion of eatables and drinkables was
| such to be almost barbaric. Do for mo-
| ment fancy delicate young ladies cramming
| themselves at wedding with immense quant-
ties of roast pig and roast goose and turnips,
| and onions boiled and picked, fried sausages
and bread and butter.
| The tapering off was with such nice little
| nicnacs and mince pies, Indian pudding, great
| chunks of pound cake, cracked hickory nuts
and cider. Old Lynes pridcd himself on the
| solid character Of this entertainment He said
- that little sip Of lemonade and a pinch of
cake wouldn't go far toward filling nobodys
stomach, and was only suitable for gals from
York.
After supper, the Old man brought out one
Of his pipes, and he and several other old cOun-
| try codgers hal a regular smoke, right in the
| room where the guests were assembled. 1t
seemed too bad to fumigate in this way, and
| yet do suppose that hHd your uncle Lemuel
| been there he would have been jolly u smo-
ker as any Of them.
Mrs. Lynes and Sally Ann being members of
the church. Of course we could have 10 dancing;
| but regular old fashioned ronping games wound
| up the evenings entertainment. Tawns, for.
feits and kissing, kept the company in tre-
| meDdOus roar, but in what respects these coarso
| amusements are more piOus than dancing I
never could comprehend. | have no taste for
| them myself, but Aleck, who loves fun of all
| kinds, joined in with the rest, and was a. up
| rOariously noisy as he was able to be, when all
Of a sudden observed him to back down and
keep his seat. On asking him the reason, he
replied in whisper that the ladies breath
sinelt 50 diabolicaly Of onions be cOuldnt stand
it any longer. We reached home at a late
hour, and SO ended Sally AIMS wedding.
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