Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1859-02-22

AN EDITORIAL DREAM on WEDDING .CAKE-A
bachelor editor out West, who had received from
the fair hand of "a bride piece of elegant we'd
ding cake to dream on, thus gives the result of
his experience:
'.We put it under the head of our pillow, shut
our eyes sweetly as an infant blessed with an
easy conscience, and soon snorcd prodigiously.
The god of dream gently touched us, and pre-
sently in fancy we were married. Never was
dearest, Sweetest, ringing in our cars every
moment Oh, that the dream had broken off
herel But mol some evil genius put it into the
head of our ducky to have pudding for dinner,
just to please her lord.
''In hungry dream we sat down to dinner.
Well, the pudding moment arrived ana a -huge
slice obscnred from sight the plate before us.
My DEAR said we, fondly, did you make
this?'
x g'.'Glorious-the best bread pudding ever
tasted in my life.
"'Plum pudding, ducky, suggested my wife.
"iOh, no, dearest, bread pudding. Twas al-
ways fond of EN- ars
3.Cal that bread pudding?' said my wife,
while her lips slightly curled with contempt.
'"Certainly, my dear-reckon I've had enough
at the Sherwood House to know bread pudding,
my love, by all means.
Husband! this is really too bad-plum
pudding is twice as hard to make as bread pud-
ding, and is more expensive, and great deal
better say this is plum pudding, sir!' and
my pretty wifes brow flushed with excitement
MY love, my sweet, my dear love, exclai'n-
ed we, soothingly, do not get angry am sure
IFS yery good, but it is bread pudding.
:. you mean, low wretch, fiercely replied my
wife in a higher tone, you knew its plum pud-
ding :. ;. 50 na.n,v mt ,ogotbe,
and so badly burned that the devil himself
wouldn't know it. tell you, madam, most
distinctly and emphatically, aud will not be
contradicted, that it is bread puddlng-and the
very meanest kind, at that.
q 1T is plum puddingF shrieked my vile, as
she hurled glass of ciaret in my face, the glass
itself tapping the claret from my nose.
"'Bread puddingI' gasped we, pluck to the
last, and grasping roasted chicken by the lett
plum pudding' rose above the din, as we
had distinct perception of two plates smash
ing across our head.
s..BTead puddins!' we groaned in a rage, as
the chicken left our hand, and flying with swift
wings across the table, landed in madam's bo-
& .plum pudding!' resounded the war cry from
the enemy. as the gravy dish took me where
wa had been depositing the first part OF our
dinner, and plate of heets landed upon our
"f s.sBread pudding foreverl' shouted we in de-
Eiance dodging the soup tureeh, anu ialnuS w
meath its contents.
s.splum puddingl' yelled the amiable spouse,
ss noticinp our misfortune, she determined to
tesn ms down by piling on our head the dishes
,s;.b no Gentle hand Then, IN rapid succession,
Silowed the war cries Plum puddingH she
shrieked with every dish.
.sstBread pudding in smothered tones, came
:, f,on, % the pile. Then it was Plum pudding
amid succession, the last cries growing fec
hiar and feebler-tl, just as recoect, it
S"d S.e, Sror,n TO whisper. Plum pudding, re-
,.oHnded like thunder, followed By tremendous
rash ] as, our wife leaped upon the pile with her
Sia1;sase feet and commenced jumping up and
It..Sa 80. chen thank Heaven, we awO&e-and
IoM .SSs soved our life, WeshalI never dream on
'ls.sI;T,, siS9 i,,, eake again"