Arizona weekly enterprise., 1881-10-22

aaHn ana FoTs1ipteo tnes Reiaen can without more ado
 One day Whlle diving in his grandilo- qasift manner with couriers, outriders, c6aclrmer snd footmen in joyous iveries, he ordered his carriage to be stopped at the home of the widow on the pretext of obtaining glass of water, but in reality to see the dau ,hter, of whose charms he had heard SD much.
 It must not be supposed that all the ex citement attending this illustrious arrival in the village had passed unobserved by the widow or her lovely and ambitious daughter. The maiden had at once de- clared that at last she had found one wor thy of becoming possessive case to her charms, while her mother had made dill- igent, but unsuccessful inquiry into the pedigree and rent-roll of His Highness Being, however, an excellent specimen of the typical mother-in-law with the meroiless tongue and iron jaw, the eagle eye and avencin claw" she watched the pro- ceedings to follow with suspicious dis trust. Nothing could excel the suavity of demeanor, the high-bred courtesy, the munifcence of the gifts with which the not slow to look after the 'main chance, " even while the 'eagle eye" was ever on the alert, reaped golden harvest.
 We'll, to pass over the nasty wooing. the wedding day was at length fixed upon and every thing done to render the auspi- cious occasion never to be forgotten But upon one point the gentleman was obstinate, and no arguments could per suade him to be married in the old ortho- dox fashion by the priest and in the church. It was all too common for him, and the ceremony must be performed by his own chaplain, and in the mansion he 1 had presented to the widow, or not at all and the daughter consenting to this, the widows protests were overcome. This lit, tie matter, however, only increased hel suspicious, until at len tn in much per. plexity she sought the advice of tie vii lage priest. Now, this worthy was alsc incensed, because he was thus excluded from the ceremony, and his visions of 2 fat fee and goodly feast had vanished It thus came to Tass that a very nice little plot was concocted, whereby should any cloven hoof be lying perdu, it would be compelled to reveal itself nolens volens 1 The result of this confab was seen in tho arms of the widow, as she hastened home on the eve of the wedding day in the shape of huge bottle filed with hol, water, and likewise big wisp, somewhat resembling the birch rod of good ole times, kept for the special delectation o the rear end of naughty little boys. Tn, water alone being deemed by the pries as hardly potent enough in this emergen cy, he had adroitly slipped very holl relic into the birch rod, wherewith tn, most holy saint performed daily anC wholesome cast. ation upon his own piou person. The water was emptied into pitcher ard given to the maid with in structions tlat when she was alone witt her husband elect, she was suddenly t, sprinkle him ad hbitum, and hit him
 whack over the head with the d. He natural shrinking from the performance <! of go strarge a:i aet lxa.s zs;szsozs,e by tin insurance that it would render her bus band the most ainiabse and l,rinz of. me, rersr-ss other t,a
 his wife with sovetoas eye after the snaar, her of this s,res s..t sy. - -
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