The weekly mountain Democrat. [volume] (Placerville, El Dorado County, Calif.) 1861-1862, 1861-06-08


agreeable"
"IIow unfeelingl" was echoed around
the circle.
My wife didn't look altogether so ami
able, thought, as she had twenty-One
years before. The supper came to an end,
and all adjourned to the parlOr. ! went
slyly down Stnirs and brought up couple
of Silver.necked bottles, and held them
behind me. ~ car" said /, "call spirits
from the vasty deep"
"Can yous 7" said one Of the aunts !;
"then you must be a mejum."
" Certainly | am, +" replied "come up
here, my spirits, and let Us keep our spirits
up by puttingspirits down." IprOduced
the bottles, and one Of the circle said '.lle
is Sich a man."
"Mr. Blifkins," said my wife, "thinA
Of the example you are setting your chill
dren"
"Ill think of it, my DEAR" sail 7, cut
ting the wire. Pop! went the cork, fol-
lowed by discharge that went all over
mOther.n.law's silk dress.
Pray be careful, Mr.. Blifkins," said my
wife.
Ladies, said 7, "allOw me to fiji your
glasses for toast: The State of Matri-
mony-Of which we to-day have become
citizens through twenty-onc years resi-
dcnce-may it always be the brightest
star in the union"
The toast was drank, and Juliana play
ed, at my mother-in-law's S request, "Med-
dlcsomes Wedding March"
Says ], Ladies, aIn not poet, butI
have been endeavoring to write something
to-day expressive of my feelings on this
great oeSaSion--I may suy the anniversary
Of the greatest occasion Of my life. 1t is
the excuse that have to offer for nv
tardiness." My wife looked amiablc then.
If you will listen will read what have
written" then proceeded:
NJ TwESrY'HRsT WEDDING =.
Twenty one years!-and II wern't at all strange
Hin that time had happened many q change;
The jolly young boy, in waist but span,
Is now a married and Compliant man.
And my wife, then dsmsel so tender and shy,
Is as fat as a seal and equally spry.
I've sown my wild oats I've cut all that crew
gave up cigars as u tribute to love,
And punch that priced all comforts above,
l have put all pleasures OF old under ban,
Determined to live like true married man.
With my children around me, my wife by my side,
Who's as dear to me as when first my bride,
I envy not those who are smoking their clay,
Or are burning their lives In tobacco away,
Content to remain here just aS am,
AZ happy as at high water q clam.
Let fate do its best or It's worst as II may,
All luck Is but accident, just Of day,
The good and the bad the sorrows and Joys,
Are nothing at all but trifles and toys.
I'll sit at my Jingle and say rs they fly,
I'm watching the harvest to come by and by.
"Mr. Blifkins," said my wife in n Sc
we're spirit Of criticism clouding up again,
"hadn't you better specify that it is the
annirermry of the Twenty first Wedding
Day, because unborn generations who
may read it, may suppose you was mar
ried twenty.one times, which is not to be
supposed Of any man"
accepted the amendment, when she
submitted the kening her to q seal was
not very complimentary, and as for her
being fat she weighed but one hundred
and eighty!
The evening passed very pleasantly.
The champagne did the business. Before
we parted my mother-in-law- embraced
me. and avowed for the thousandth time
that no one could have better son in law,
the maiden aunts were tractablc, and the
sisters stood still like sensible girls to be
kissed, aud thus ended my Silver We'd
ding.