Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1873-12-20
THE WRONG BED,

At late hour the other night, quite
bridal party arrived in the city and
put up at one of our hotels. The groom
was accompanied by two ladies.
The names were registered in the usual
way, but in some way a mistake was
made in registering in the indentity
of the bride. The hours sped on to-
ward the dawn, and the bride, in her ST.
lent 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 apartment.
What had become of him? Impa-
tience gradually grew into terror. She
rang the bell and the servant knocked
at the door.
"Do you know where my husband
is q she inquired.
"Ain't he here, mam?'
"No."
MAYBE he stepped out into the
city, mann, 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 retired, and in q few
moments returned with information
that there was none. The wife was
then alarmed in earnest. She never
had husband before, and like the
man who drew the elephant in the lot
terry, scarcely knew what to do with the
animal.
In her anxiety she went to the room
of her bridesmaid and knocked at the
door:
Who's there ?" came in accents un-
mistakably masculine.
"Me, Sarah; but mercy, who are
you?'
There was a sudden stir, and the
sound of feet falling heavily on the car
pet floor.
d" Who in the devil am I in bed with,
then % she heard the man say, as the
door swung open and her husbands S
face peeped out.
ooh! I'm distracted about you;
where have you been ?"
Give been here in bed; but deuce
take me, l thought you were, too
"Oh! James, it wasn't me"
"Who sit, then -
"Why, it's Sarah"
The devil
"Oh! no, James, it was Sarah. Did
MT you know it, James
"Blast me if 1 did! I found hel
asleep, and thinking this was youl
room, I crept into bed and went to
Sleep" replied James, evidently i'm.
pressed with the idea that he had 6
difficult task to argue.
els she asleep yet, James?'
"Why, don't YOU hear her snore ?"
But Just then Sarah walked up, and
seeing man in her room, set w
screams, which filled the hall with peo
pie.
And now the bridegroom found him
self in delicate position. In the hur
" of explaining the matter to the wife
he had neglected to put on his pants
and now in his eager search for then
he was dancing around the room lik'
one possessed; now and then implor
ing Sarah to hush.
"I'm going, don't you see!'
But Sarah was seeing too much, ant
she wouldn't hush; and the wife in th7
hall, hemmed in by the eager crowd
had tried to explain, but failing il
this, had leaned her head against TIN
wall and was enjoying a hearty cry.
At last, however, the pants wer'
found and put on, and the HUSBAND
and wife escaped to their chamber
while Miss Sarah locked her doc
against all further intrusion.
The next morning explanations wer'
gone into, and there's no denying tina
both the ladies we've the least incredu
lous, and it is said pelceptible cold
ness has grown up between them
whilst the unintentionally oifendln!
bridegroom walks about good deal
his head down, and evidently indulS
ing in unpleasant meditations.