Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1874-11-27
Till; WOODEN WEDDING.

e'Of course, LOulson must come home
for the wooden wedding" decided the
whole of the Gruhners assemhlt d in full
family conclave; the said family c,mclave
being composed of grandfather and grand
mother Grulner, widow Gruhne" and her
two daughters, Margot, whose fifth we'd
ding day was to be celebrated, and Gretch-
Ell, the laughter-loving. youngest of the
family Besides whom were present Will
helm Raus, Margot's husband, and Hans,
the miltl s boy.
Yes. yes, Fraulein Louison must come
home for the W, dding, IF course echoed
Hans.
And then everybody laughed. First Of
all, because no one in the world but
Hans would have dream d OF identifying
little Louison Gru'ner with SD imposing a
title; and mkt, because pc II Hans coul
never so rnu h us mention LoIliSon's name
titled Or not, without ca Using lau gil i'll
the family circle. His admiration for that
young person, freely expressed on all occa-
ssns when the object of his affections. was
not present, and his extreme shyness iii
her society, had long been a standing jo e
i'll the village of Brus.iofen, and had earn
ed for him the nickname of ''the basaful
lover
When they all laughed. Hans blushed a
very furious and unbecoming red.
''Never mind, never mind friend Hans, y
said Wilhelm, clapping him on the Shout
n ana rip Crlu r
and timid, too, and yet thou seest took
the bull by the horns at last and | would
advise thee
But the advice was drowned In a chorus
of laughter and expostulations. Margot,
perhaps, not unnat urally. obj 'cted to be
compared to a horned bull and Wilhelm :
timidity had not been so patent to the
world, even in his young days, as to have
made much impression upon it, it would
seem.
However, it was quite decided that Lou
ison w rs to come home.
She Was bright dark-eyed girl of about
seventeen, an orphan neice of widow Grub
ner, whose sister was her junior by a few
months. Louison lived, asa rule, with some
relatives. who We're farmers, a few miles
from Konigsherg; but her holidays, few
and far between, We're always spent in the
Gruhners' little cottage. which from her
childhood had beer considered her real
home, and her visits to Brushufen were
looked forward to with great pleasure
1t WAS now almost a year since she had
been to see them, and it was quite ilnpossi.
BILE to ALLOW the grand festivities of the
''wondrn wedding" to take place without
her. So after somewhat elaborate cor res
,ndence between widow l.ruhner and
Frau Liebe, tle farmers wife, whose right
hand Louison was. a leave of Il fortnight
was obtained, and the day was fixed for
the young girls arrival at Brushofen.
|. Old CRU ner, accompanied by his grand
daughter, Gretchen, went to meet her at
the coach.
"Two weeks, two whole weeks, my Lou
ison, cried Gretchen, grt,ping her friend s
hand as they walked together DIP the steep
cliff path t.lat led to the cottage. ''Only
think how deli shtful And before that
time Hans Steiner will have asked thee to
marry him and live in the pretty white
cottage by the mill, and we shall never part
with thee again -
Come, COME" retorted Louison, show
dost thou know that by tne time Hans
Steiner pleas to say Wilt thou p shall
not please to say nay"
But as she spoke Il smile curled the corners
of her pretty mouth, and her eyes sparkled
all hidden though they We're by tneir lon g
lashes.
"Wel. we'll. we sllll see," ret urned
Gretchen, wisely resolving not to press the
matter, at least, for the present.
And there were naturally many other
subjects of conversation interesting to the
family patty, or at least, to the women por
ton of it many questions to be asked and
answered, many friends to be inquired for
and discussed.
A merry and talkative group were they
as they sat together that evening at work
by the open window Of the cottage kitcnen
It seemed as though they never could gel