The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1875-04-29

silk gowns and things, Jest down from
BOsting, all bows and ends-Mis
Fucker didn't git that job-and tn
wedding veil sprawlfng over q lounge
Hubby shet the door when she com
out to speak - me, but I'd seen N!
nil through the crack afOre; and lit
tie Huldy's 20 be bride-maid, I reek,
on, for she was trying on som.
white fixing in the parlor chamber.
1t was going to be very quiet wed
ding-nObOdy invited but q few
friends from Boston and the Rev
Cyrus Allan and his sister. Cyrus
would have given all he was worth, il
il would have enabled him to stay
away bus how could be refuse to
marry parishioner and an old friend,
unless he were to fall i'll or break q
limb in the meantime ? But the
I fsted day drew on, and found him
sound in body, if distracted in mind,
/ as he helped Jane into the carriage
and shut her finery in the door, think
! ing how much il seemed as if they
were going to q funeral instead. A
I handful OF friends were assembled in
I Huldy's parlOr, and a swinging bell
of flowers marked the spot where the
bridal party were to pose and pres
emily there was a pOrtsntous rustling
and murmuring in the hall, and Cy-
rus caught sight of q cloud of tulle
and confused panorama of faces,
from amid which Huldy's shone out
like fixed star, before he dropped his
eyes upon his prayer-boOk and began
the service, with a cOuntenance as
white as his gown.
az was looking through. tine crack
CT the door," chrOnieled Miss Mallet,
who was always present on such oc-
e&siOns to cut the cake and order
things duly, "spd L thought Cyrus
Allan would @f5p every minute. and
l Jest run for the campfire bottle"
He went through the ceremony as
ifsfle had been wound up for the pur-
pose without once raising his eyes to
the bride's. The response, 81, Hubby,
take thee, Henry, to be my we'd
ded husband" sounded to him like
the far off whispers in a shell all the
faces about him seemed wavering aud
disturbed he saw Jane standing
primly against the wall I'D her stiff,
OlG-fashiOned brocade-her grand
mothers wedding goWn-with its
modern ruffies of embroidered mus
lin, and the great frOnds and ferns up
on it seemed to grow as she waited
there, while he speeulated if all the
hearts that had ached under that
bodice could make up the sum of his
present agony and directly the bless
ing was over, and summOning all his
strength of will and pride, Cyrus bent
forward to congratulate the bride,
and-the bride was only little HUI
dyI
az never knOwed 1t myself" report
ediMiss. Mallet, "till l came back to the
crack of the door, ard see, all of sud-
ding, that the veil was onto little
Huldy's head, now that they faced
round, and that old Hubby was moth.
ing but bridesmaid. 1 was all struck
of heap, and / he'd to take sniff out
of the campfire bottle myself And
l was downright mad, too, at being so
took in. You see, the way of it was,
little Huldy's stepfather wouldn't let
her marry her young man, 'cause the
minute she up and did, he'd lose con-
troll of the property her own pa
left her; and her ma, she hadn't no
marrer TO her bones, and never burst
say her soul was her'n j. any man
thought different; and as little
Huldy's step-father was her guardeen,
and she WANT of age, and a-wasting
her money for her in riOtOus living,
and keeping of her pinched and treat
ing of her shameful, they was afeared
he'd forbid the banns if he got wind
of it, he was such 6 heathen SO
they'd keep it sly, and the rest of US
had wasted enough sympathy on
Huldy Blare to found a hospital, you
see.
Show could you play Us such an un-
neighborly trick. Miss Huldy," saysI
afterwart, 'and keep US so long in the
outer darkness We did a sight of
worrying for you that We might have
been spared if we'd only knowed he
WANT yOllr young man."
"I never said ne was my young
man. said she, a-laughing. "You
drew your own conclusions"
"Yes,' thinks L, Il drew my own
conclusions from hanging round the
premises and watching the shsdders
on the window eurtings.' And Just
then Cyrus Allan, he came in, and,
Miss Msllet,' says he, joking like, Il
thought it was a pity to leave Miss
Hubby without her young man, after
all the talk, and disappoint the neigh
bors too, and I've kindly volunteered
to take his place, and 'ishow her it
was all for the best" so you'll have
to bake cake for the whole parish y
And Hubby blushed just like a rose
in June, as putty as if she'd bin six
teen; but, you see, she's got her young
man, after all, il he is a minister, and
she don't seem noways sOrry."-Har-
per'S Bd5dr.