Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1858-11-12


TO know what was goin' on ID the bed
room. Finally, the door opened and
Enos came out. His head was down, and |
his hat over his eyes, and he staggered
like drunken man. The Deacon was
behind him, lookin' whiter'n / ever saw
him look in his life, and solemn as death.
lie kinder s,iddied Enos by the arm,
and seemed to be tryin' to say somethin'
comfortin' to him, but his lips hardly
moved, and couldn't hear a sound come
out of 'em, though the room was jest
then 60 still you could heard pin drop.
He took him to the door, and then sect /
Enos was goin' way agin' 'ithout word /
with Iyddy. felt as If twas my own /
case, for all the world, and | could hard /
| ly keep from shriekin' right out but |
held in, and sprung arter him, determin-
ed to have just one word in his ear il
died fort jest then the door was open
ed.
"' Good Heavens says the Deacon,
what on earth y
He fell back, as if he'd been struck,
1t bit me jest about the same time, and
e'enamost knocked me down. The next
minute such cry as every body set up /!
and the minister elapped his fingers to
his nose, and screamed out, Shet the
|. door, Fore that could be done, though,
in stalked the gentleman from Boston !
| He was dressed, aud powdered and po-
matumed in grand style, but that made
him look only the more ridiculous. He
r didn't seem TO know whether he stood on
his head or his heels. lie was a eoughin'
r and holdin' bis nose, and a stammerin'
] and a spittin' while every body ran away
/, from him, as if he'd been the arch-6end
0 himself, jest come up a smokin' from the
lower regions. The door was shet, buI
e that didn't make no diaerenee---the
g fragrance was awful
THE gentleman from Boston ha,
# brought powerful perfume with him
says the little minister, struttin' around
J, in his white wool wig.
0 80 For Heavens sake 2 says the Dea
d con, how did it happen? Phew phew
g says the poor bridegroom, dodgin' around
as if be was tryin' to git away from him
l self, and putin every body to fight, likt
5 so many sheep, with wolf among 'em
% As | was comm along--I got almost t,
r the gate-when see, says he, it'll
spotted kitten a runuin' on jest befor
l. me- in the dark. Il stopped right in m.
d patch, and come up 10 it, and jest pu
- out my foot toward it-when-
d - Lord massy ? says the Deacon
as don't you know a spotted kitten froG
ID a.? Heavens and 'arlh wouIdn
have had it happen for-Bless me, sir
d You'll have to step out doors sair
corldn't stand this Phew =
" 8 How-am have - says th
Deacon; and the sooner you chang
d them clos o your'n the better
q. MY weddin' elo's' say the poC
fellow, and cut he went, to the great r,
lief Of every body. But he'd scented d
-, the house for month to come. mu
say l pitied him, though / was gla
enough for any accident that only pat q
the weddiu' had took advantage
H. the confusion to pull Enos back. whisp'
= my word in bis ear, and send him d
stairs to Lyddy, where be was all th
time, unbeknown to the Deacon. who vi
-, so dead beat when he found It ont,
\ took his oath that she should be marril
,se that night to the gentleman from Bost'
-; Il the knot bad to be tied in the open a
Bot half the guests bad gone alread
and the rest was goin' aud the little Il
, :. mister had sirulted oil ia his cooked Ia
.ta with bis hand to bis nose, aud bis q
- wife, with her trail pinned up, a bold
on to his arm and nov another difIiei
r., y appeared--the gentleman from b
ton couldn't be gos back into the hou
Il, agin Tor any consideration, and twas
- own wish the woddin' should Be put
.an I'LL some faluri occasion.
n. 'Wa'al, TO ca, a long story short et
"a iinued the old lady, The gentleman Fl
ha Boston went back 10 Boston, and q
IA vas the last We ever see Of him. thou
/ never knowd exac'Iy hox lbe affair '
.s;a managed. a. for Lyday, she and II
vas married tho same day noe ani y
,th- gran'ihsr 3lade was. six months arier q
ere. evenlful nigbti and guess they was b.
.ws py enough bat aIl thal i past abd 81
,ar- aad doa'tkhoa - Is snakes much diil
yoa enes nov who SIS happy s1d aho wa'
,in gor cant shink Of a single one ont oi
age, number that wa mixed up IN the n
eF iers I've been tsiliu' shout bul The q