Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-03-21
INsTHE WRONG BED.
An Embarrassing Episode In q BOs-
ton Hotel.

An Embarrassing Episode In q BOs
ton Hotel.
| At late hour Tuesday night quite bri
dial party arrived in the city and put up al
one of our ho.els. The bride was accom-
panied by two of her young friends and
the groom by two gentlemen. The names
were registered in the usual way but il
| some way mistake was made in register
ing the identity of the bride. The hour:
sped on toward the dawn, and the bride in
her silent chamber waited the appearances
| of the lord. Yet he come not. Surely, he
is 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 ?''
she inquired.
"Ain't he here, man ?''
"No."
"Maybe he stepped out into the city,
nam, and will be back directly"
"I'm afraid; oh, do inquire at the Office
and see if there is any intelligence about
him."
The servant girl retired, and in a few
moments returned with information that
there was none. The wife was now alarm
ed in earnest. She never had husband
before, au1 like the man who drew the ele-
plant in the lottery, scarcely new what to
do with the animal.
In her anxiety she went TO the room OF
her bridesmaids and knocked at the door.
"Who's there?" came in accents unmis-
taxable masculine.
"Me, Sarah; but mercy, who are you?"
There was sudden stir and the sound
of feet fslling heavily on the carpeted
floor.
"Who in the devil am lin bed with, then?
che heard the man say, as the door swung
open and her husbands face peeped-out.
ooh! I'm distracted about you; where
have you been?"
"Pve been here in bed; but deuce take
me, thought you were too"
sob! James, it wasn't me.
"Who is it then?"
"Why, its Sarah"
"The devil"
'Ohl no, James, it was Sarah. Didn't
you know it, James?
"Blast me if did l found her asleep
and thinking this was our room, crept in
to bed and went to Sleep" replied James,
evidently impressed with the idea that he
had difficult case to argue.
sis she asleep yet, James?"
"Why, don't you hear her snore?"
But just then Sarah walked up, and see
ing a man in her room, set up screams
which filed the hall with people.
And now the bridegroom found himself
in delicate position. In the hurry of eX-
planning the matter to bis wife he had neg
Iected to put on his pants; and no W 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, don't you see!"
But Sarah was seeing too much, and she
wouldn't hush; and the wife in the hall,
hemmed in by the eager crowd, had tried to
explain, but falling in this, had leaned her
head AGAINST the wall and was enjoying a
hearty cry.
At last, however, the pants were found
and put on, and the husband and wife es-
capped to their chamber, while Miss Sarah
double locked her door against all further
intrusion.
The next morning explanations were
gone into, but there's no denying tina. both
the ladies' were the least bit incredulOus,
and it is said a perceptibls GOODNESS has
grown up between them, whilst the unin-
territorial offending bridegroom walks about
a good deal, his head down, and evidently
INDUCING in unpleasant meditations.-
Boston Post.