The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1865-01-25
oNLYAtoKE.
III say Lofty, (my aunt always called me
Lofty for Nalluria,) what are you writing

, "a letter, who to?" s31
'It is an anonymous letter, aunt"
4 "Ah my child" said she gravely, "you
e should not do it, it is very wrong"
4 "Wropg, aunt, why,I i don 7 think it is
when i is only joke"
"0oly a joke, my child; sometimes jokes
turn out to be very serious."
/, "But this won't, )aGnt, let me tell you.
I Fred Lacy Is in love with Nina Ageron,
, but she does no. cares straw for him; and
even if she did, she would MOI encourage
him, for lie is poor. Well, Lena and |
were going to send him love letter; he
will think it came from Nina and we will
have some rare sport"
! sDon't do it my dear. Let me tell you
something that happened when Twas u gill,
though it was only joke"
seated myself II my aunts feet, to listen
to her story. She tendehy stroked my
curlS and commenced:
my room mate and ooniilaute at board
ing school was a most beautiful girl her
name was Irene CaTlou--She was the
4 daughter of a rich southern planter, and
the favorite Of the whole school. She told
me, one night that Henry Saffarans, the
head clerk at the village confectionery, had
! told her that he loved her; she was so sur
prised she could not answer, but promised
to do SO at some future. time. She asked
my advice about it, and told me that she
loved HIM, for, if he was POOR, he was hand
some and polished, but her parents would
never be willing for her TO marry him, ]
told her to DO nothing which was likely to
anger her parents, and TO send him word
to discontinue lis attentions. She did eo'
and 10 a very short time the whole school,
by some means, found out about their love
affair.
Leila, Brown, my next best friend, and
myself, resolved to have some fun at the
expense Of Irene and her lover. We wrote
an anonymous letter to Henry; lie Of course,
Isupposing it came from Irene, answered it.
We received it. and wrote another, aud are
gular correspondence was established. We
took good care to keep them from meeting,
for we known if they did all would be dis
covered. In bis letters Henry begged and
implored for an interview and ali the while
Ilene was wandering why hedid not come;
but she was too proud to ask.
"Thus matters continued for two or three
months, when Henry, finding an interview
would not be granted, he proposed by letter.
That was Just what We wanted, The joke
was go gooG that We told it toseyeral others,
after promising 10 keep the utmost secrecy
about it. We answered in the affirmative
and told him 10 engage q priest and come
at ten o'clock the next night and be married
candestinely. Silly, foolish girls We ware,
little thinking of the wropg wewero dong
for we persuaded the chamber maid at the
Seminary, bright negro girl, to participate
in the joke and personate Irene, and be
married to Henry iSotarans.
"At the appointed hour, the gill dressed
in some of our garments, and large black
lace shawl thrown over her head to disguise
her was waiting in the garden for Henry
We girls were concealed behind the shrub !
berry to witness the grand scene and dis
closure, as we thought We could hardly |
restrain our laughing as we saw Henri
and take her BY the hand, which |
was encased in kid. glove, he whispered
few words in her ear and kissed her through |
the veil. I was so convused with laughter
that ! really thought should die. Icram-
med my skit in my mouth, and succeeded |
in keeping him from hearing me.
presently he drew her hand within his
arms, and they rapidly walked away. This |
was more than weexpected, and the thought |
of their really getting married burst upon
us with overwhelming force. Here was a
fix. Not one of us dared to interfere IN | |
we could plainly see, by the light of the
full moon, that they had nearly reached the
school church. We concluded to witness the
whole thing, il We could not stop it, and we
hurried TO the church Cecily, the negro |
girl, we all knew was very timid aud would |
not interrupt the wedding because she
thought we would take all blame.
Halffearing, half laughing we witnessed
the ceremony, A shudIer passed over my
frame when I heard the holy man pro-
uounee Henry Saffarans and the negro GIRL