The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1877-11-27
OLD BLUCHER's WEDDING.


TIMES is changed, boys, since / was
| young fellow. I'm eighty, now,
and I've seen considerable living. When
| j was twenty-one the deer used to come
out of the woods yonder and eat my
| buckwheat, and / used to go out with
my rifle and shoot 'em down to save it,
Venison is scarce now, but you couldn't
coax hungry man to eat it then if he
could get something else, it was so COM
mon. Ask Aunt Martha if that isn't so.
AS for doings they'reall altered. Every
thing is fine as fivepence now. We had
to put up with common fiXings then,
tell you. Now that big wedding down
at Dadenhammer yesterday. Aunt
Martha and L went. All the house was
fixed up with stuffed furniture, and there
was things to eat L didn't know the
names of; and four musicians from the
city to play for them to dance, and after
the wedding there was a carriage to
take the young folks to the railway
depot, for what they call their tour, and
wagon behind, bless you, with the
brides trunks, as big as houses, every
one of 'em. That was my Mart has
niece, that bride was and when Martha
was married she went on a different
kind of tour.
mean to tell all about it while I'm
talking, though she says the young
people will think she wasn't a bit gen.
teel. Genteel isn't my brother any way
never was. Give me up and down
just what you are worth-no airs.
We didn't take any in those times.
We were new settlers, every one of us.
Martha's mother and father had one.big
room for parlor and sitting-room and
kitchen, and there we were married.
Peter Grimes fiddled for us, and we had
corn cakes and chicken, and sweet cake
and coffee and light biscuits and plum
sass, and fried pork for supper; and the
parson he ate as hearty as any and
laughed as loud as any of us-though
when it came to dancing, of course he
wasn't there; and after we'd danced
until morning, Martha and 1 started
home. / had cart E; it hadn't any
cover, and 1 was going to take her over
in that.
We'd had furnishing bee before and
all my folks and all hern had give us
something but Grandmother Smith
had fetched over a feather bed for q
present to Martha-and now says she:
A." Put it in the wagon, Blucher, and
it will be comfortable seat for Martha. -
So we did it.
Martha sat on the bed. 1 perched up
on the seat, and away we drove. Mother
Smith she cried, so did Martha.
Father-in-law hurrahed. So did L, and
off we went.
For considerable time had plenty
to do, coaxing Martha to cheer up; tell
ing her that she could go home as often
as she liked and pretending to scold
her, though wasn't angry, for a girl
who loves her own folks and is a good
daughter is sure to be good wife.
But after while she cheered up, and
as we rode along in the gray dawn, just
little mister than night, she said:
"I'm SO sleepy that 1 think 1 shall
just cuddle down in the feathers and
take nap"
" Do it" said from my perch.
So after while spoke to her with
out turning my head, and she didn't
answer.
" Sound asleep, poor little chicken"
thought i, and driv on.
1t was a cloudy sort of morning. We'd
passed through the marsh, and the
mosquitoes buzzed about, but never
reused the girl up. We'd come to the
woods, and there you couldn't see your
hand before your face, and still she was
sound asleep, l thought, and 1 was
glad she should have such good rest.
But when we'd come to the top of the
hill, and could see our little house,
could not stand it any longer. 1 felt as
If I'D like to have her take the first peep
along with me.
Martha !" shouted, turning around
on the high seat, Martha, wake up,
lassie We can see our house from
here"