The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1875-08-21
4 BRIDAL IDiL.
81 Matter 0r Fact" rs Recorded by
The Texan Poet Laureate.

was II bfluul l'llS ," H'l'pp "h' s"9'
What could be expected o
II bridal party but that 1t shoul'
he gay under the circumstan
ccs ? Good cheer, which includes
'lashins' of atm and dhrinkin'," goo'
weather, clear sky--why, even Mari
rapley would have consented to b'
Jolly. The second stave reads like
hotel register, with the sane swec
rythm that one finds in those gen
timely poetic works:
There were the wllDuins, the lIarrlses an'
others;
The Ha,chcs, the STATIONS aud liuhhinG
brothers,
And many others of renOwn and fame
For me too many to tell all 10y name.
The last line, like charity, covers ;
multitude of sins of omission, fol
which the poet would otherwise prob
ably have had to answer TO the Smiths
and Joneses whose names could not be
made to rhyme. In the third stanza Il
climax is reached, to-wit:
And now the groom, giving the bride kiss
Said, "Your name is no longer Harris;
Matte Wilhurn now Is your name
From Georgia all the ~ came"
The exact connection of the last line
with the body of the poem is thus ex-
plaiued by the poet: Gle cum from
Georgy,n The fun commences with
fourth act:
And all they laughed and clleered no loud,
This joyful, gay and happy crowd,
now falls cloud
And no one then did dream to see
A party of boys TO chivaree.
If, ut the beginning of this verse,
the reader will hire few small boys
to rattle on an adjacent picket fence,
it will add materially to the dramatic
effect:
All at once the ringing OF n bell,
mayhap u cow-bell
And rafting of chains of some mischiefdid
tell;
Some one blew II horn-oh, what sin
For "blew" read stock
Also they heard some clashing of tin
Change the boys for dog with nine
fruit cans to his tail in consideration
of the last line. An intermission of
ten minutes is here marked in
by the author, but it is sup
possible that the conference among the
besieged did not take half the time
however, let the ten minutes stand as
the author put it
Ten minutes pause
The sixth cantO gives the result of
the council of war:
Bayly run out to see who was in the plot,
When he was saluted by pistol shot;
Quickly, then, 10 the orchard he run
"Old lady !" he cried, 'make haste and
fetch Inc my gum"
In the movement described in the
two last lines Bayly did not display
that military strategy for which his
uncle was noted in the Creek war.
But, however,
The horses they were greatly scared,
Not so, Bayly.
And pitched, and kicked, nnd fret and
reared.
Thus did Bayly.]
They broke down the fence and away they
run,
Summat like n stampede.
Buggies ana wagons, rderless horses many
one.
Never before was firstsclass panic
and skedadle SO graphically put on
paper! But the hustle in no wise dis
mays Bayly:
Bayly, in his orchard alone,
Hastily gathered II big lot ofstone,
And armed with his sword, pistol and gun,
Cried out: "Coue ON and let us have some
fun"
Which is to say, that Bayiy held his
pistol in one hand, his sword In the
other, his gun in the other, and con-
fired stones at the enemy
with the other. AT least, that's our
solution of it. Bat this martial display
was all for naught, as witness the
ninth verse:
But the boys were gone he soon found out;
they left with a hurrah, a laugh and n shout
Bayiy in the orchard, as all may easy see
Claimed for himself great victoree.
With the remsip of that sword
and pistol Ia seven-shoOtar. perhaps,)
it is hardly probable any one will
dispute with Bayly us to the "vic-
toree,n so he can safely claim
it, If he wants to, Bat the strength of
The story lies in its beautiful applica-
ton. Listen to the
MORAL.
Now, young man, take lesson here,
For the moral Is quite plain and clear
I at wedding you get ON IA spree
All yon may expect is a chivaree.
TO properly disseminate the touch
ing lesson so beautifully told In this
matchless poem 1t should be the work