The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1870-02-19
The Wrong Bed.

At a late hour Tuesday night quite a
bridal party arrived in the city and put up
at one Of our hotels. The bride was ac-
companied by two of her young lady friends
and the groom by two gentlemen. The
names were registered in the usual way,
but, i'll some way mistake was made in
reference to the identity of the bride
The hours sped on toward the dawn and
the bride i'll her silent chamber waited the
appearance of her lord. Yet he came not.
Surely. he was not sitting up all this time.
The rest of the party had retired she was
certain, since she had heard them in their
apartments.
What had become of him. Impatience
gradually grew into terror.
She rang her bell, and the servant knock
ed at the door.
DO you know where my husband is y
she inquired.
Amt he in here, man,
No
Maybe he stepped out into the city,
nam, and will be back directly.
I'm afraid o, do inquire at the Office
and see if there is any Intelligence about
him.
The servant retired, and in a few mo-
ments returned with information that there
was none. The wife was now alarmed in
earnest. She never had a husband before,
and like the man whe drew the elephant in
the lottery, scarcely knew what to do with
the animal.
In her anxiety she went to the room of
one of her bridesmaids and knocked at the
door.
who's there?' was inquired in accents
Enthusiastically masculine.
Me, Mary; but mercy, whe are you?'
There was sudden stir and the sound
of feet falling heavily on the carpeted floor.
who the devil am | in bed with, then p
she heard the man say, as the door swung
open and her husbands face peered out.
%. I'm distracted about you where
have you bcen?' asked the wife.
I've been here in bed but, deuce take
me, l thought you were here too
90 James, it wasn't me-.
who is it, then?'
'Why it 5 Sarah.
The devil.
80 no, James, it was Sarah. Didn't YOU
know it. James,
Blast me if did | found her asleep,
and thinking this was over room | crept in
to bed and went to sleep replied James,
evidently impressed with the idea that no
had a difficult case to argue.
Is she asleep yet, James2'
Why. don't you hear her snore?'
But just then Sarah woke ur, and seeing
4 man in her room set up 4 succession of
screeches that soon filled the hall with peo-
pie.
And now the bridegroom found himself
in delicate position. In the hurry of ex-
planning the matter to his wife, he had Ne
elected to put OH his pants; and now in
his eager search for them he was dancing
around the room like one possessed now
and then imploring Sarah to hush.
I'm going to, don't you Sec But
Sarah wouldn't hush; and the wife in the
hall, hemmed in by the eager crowd, had
tried to explain but failing in this had
leaned her head against the wall and was
enjoying hearty cry.
At last, however, the pants were found
and put on, and the husband and wife es-
capped to their chamber, whilst Sarah
doublelocked her door against all further
intrusion. The next morning explanations
were gone into, but there's no denying
that both the ladies We're the least bit i'll
credulous, and it is said a perceptible cold
ness has grown up between them, whilst
the unintentionally offending bridegroom
walks about Il good deal, his head down.
and evidently indulSing in unpleasant med
itatiens