Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1857-04-27
MARY ANN'S WE DDIN


"We were all preparing, :" said Mrs Jones,
'to go to the wedding. / was going, father
was going, the gals were going, and we were
going to take the baby, but come to dress the
baby, couldn't find the baby's shirt. Ia Ialu
a clean one out Of one of the drawers on Pul.
pose know d list where / had put 1t; but
come to look for Z twas gone:
"For mercy's sake" says /, Z" gals, says L,
has any on We seen that baby shirt:
"Of course, none of 'em had seen IT. and
looked and looked, and looked again, put
twant nowhere to be found. It's the strsngest
thing in all nature" said /, here L had the
sbirt in nv hand not MORN than ten minutes
ago, and now it's gone, and nobody can tell
where never seed the beat. Gals, f" says /,
do look around, can't ye" But fretting
the bureau, and fshed up another shirt, and
put it onto the baby, and at last we were ready
for start.
Father harnessed up a double team-we
drove the old white mare then, and the gals
and all was having good time, going to see
Mary Ann married, but somehow / couldn't
git over that shirt, 'Twant the shirt so much;
but to have anything spirited away from under
my face and eyes so, twas provokin"
y What We thinking about, mother?'' says
Sophrony, /" what makes you look so sOber?"
says she.
I'm pestered to death thinking about that
ere shirt. One of you must have took it, 1 am
Sartain,' says /.
Now, ma, ," says Sophrony, "yOu needn't
say that, and rs I'd laid it onto her good
many times, she was beginning to get vexed
and so we had it back and forth, and all about
that baby's shirt, till we got to the wedding.
Seeing company kinder put ii out of mind,
and was getting good natured again, though
i could not help saying 70 myself every few
minutes, ''w what could have become of that
shirt2' till at last they stood up to be married,
and forgot all about it.
Mary Ann was a real modest creature, and
was NOR n half frightened to death when she
came into the room with stephen, and the min
lister told them TO jlne hands. She first gave
her left hand to Stephen. Your other hand"
says the minister; and poor Steve, he was so
bashful, too, he didn't know what he was about;
he thought twas his mistake, and that the
minister meant him, so he gave Mary Ann his
left hand That wouldn't do any way, left
handed marriage all around; but by this time
they didn't know what they were about, and
Mary Ann joined her right hand to his left,
then her left with his right, then both their
hands again, until l was all of a fdget, and
thought they never would get fixed.
Mary Ann looked as red as a turkey, and to
make matters worse, she began to cough, to
turn 1t of, suppose, and called for glass Of
water The minister had just been drinking,
and the tumbler stood right there, and I was
80 nervous, and in such a hurry TO see it all
over with, 1 ketched up the tumbler and run
Win IL 70 her, Tor thought to goodness she
was going to faint. She undertook to drink
L don't know how it happened, but the tumbler
slipped, and gracious me, if between US we
didn't spill the water all over the collar and
dress.
L was dreadfully hustered for il look
ed as though it was my fault, and the first
thing did was 30 out with my handkerchief
and give it to Mary Ann; it was nicely done
up, and she took it. The folks had held in
pretty well up to this time, but then such a
gggle and laugh as there was I didn't know
what had given them such a start, till looked
and seen that I'd girs Mary Anu that 6a5y's
Shirt
Here Mrs. Jones, who is a very feshy woman,
undulated and shook like a mighty Jelly, with
her mirth, and it was some time before she
could proceed with her narrative.
= Why, said she, with tears oflaughter run
nlng down her cheeks, I'd tucked it into nv
dress for kerchief That came from being
sbsent-minded and in idgit."
And Mary Ann and Stephen-were they
married after alll'
- Dear me, yes" said Mrs. Jones, and it
turned out to be the gayest wedding that 1
ever attended"
= And the baby shirt, Mrs. Jones2"
:. La me, said Mrs. Jones "how youny
folks do ask questions. Everybody agreed I
ought to make Mary Ann present ont"
Well, Mrs. Jones7''
" Well, said Mrs Jones' 'twant long fore
she had use for it" And that's the end of
the story