Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1883-12-27
THE. COWBOYS BRIDE.
How She Proved She WAS no Wax
Figger."

Figger."
The evening train on the Union Pa
cific drew out from one of the little
desert stations of Wyoming few days
ago, leaving behind group of merry
youngsters who had come TO see off q
newly-wed young man and woman.
The departure of the train was signaled
by three rousing cheers by the for
saken young men and maidens, and in
certain manner strongly emphasized
by the startling reports of several pis-
tol shots.
The bridal party in the car were in
teresting witnesses OF this grand demon
stration in their behalf, and, lovingly
locked in each others arms, leaned
from the same window, smiled. and
waved their respective headgcar in
adieu. A bend in the road soon re-
moved the married pair and their
friends from view. The former slowly
lowered the window and sought their
seats. Immediately thcv became the
cynosure of almost every eye in the
car, and they justly merited the atten-
ton.
She was beautiful and buxom, and
was dressed in her best which was
rather of the shabby-genteel order.
Her face had pristine beauty, which
cultivation and association with people
of refinement would have made particu-
larly attractive. AS it was, there was
the rudy glow of health, the evidence
of robust constitution, and withal the
power to charm the best young people
of the district in which it beamed. In
her eye there was the merry and mis-
chievous twinkle of tie Unborn coquette
that delighted in compelling devotion,
and took not little delight in making
the ''feller she liked best feel that he
was not the only lad around she might
have for the desiring. In her hat was
concentrated the evidence of the hight
to which millinery had attained in the
mountain town.
The young man was dressed in a
brand-new cowboy outfit, so stiff in all
its parts that he moved like paralytic
and smelled like leather store. He
was not so brawny rs cowboys some
times are; indeed, he seemed like tyro
in the business. His face was devoid
of that black-walnut complexion pecu-
liar To members of his calling, and its
expression was such that it might but
recently have hidden good-by to what
Mark Twain would have termed q Cos
pei duck smile.
The twain had hardly taken their
seats when the young lady burst into
tears. The feeling of homesickness
had already come upon her. She sobbed
aloud. cnd attracted even more atten-
-. L
of the crowded car. The newly-made
husband was trained in business in
such cases made and provided. The
next instant his arm encircled her
waist, and the fair form was gently
moved as a consequence in reclining
position, until the dropping head rested
upon her protectors bosom. Then
were poured into the listening ears of
the weeping damsel the whispers of
consolation which the young husband
was able to conjure up from the re-
sources of his vocabulary. Some of
these whispers found their way into
the damsel's mouth, because it was
noticed that several times the lips of
the twain met in closest contact.
By degrees the disconsolate maiden
returned to her former self, and there
ensued such scene of embraces, and
kisses, and whispers, and hugs as is
witnessed only on y well-appointed bril-
dal tour. Indeed, everlasting love,
confidence, and fealty must have been
proposed and assented TO n thousand
times.
OF course, it was picnic for the
other passengers, of whom many had
been there before. Some of them had
not, and to them, especially of the
rough border class, it was something
the enjoyment of which was almost
supernal. Several of the more demon
stratiye of the latter reached for their
neighboring companions, and began n
HONEYMOON of their own, initiating to
the letter the traditional performance
which was being given by the heroine
and hero. 1t would be difficult to de-
scribe the scene in the car when this
emulation became almost general. The
smacks, the "ohs!" the "ahs!' the
laughs, the outlaws became almost
legion.
Meanwhile the loving pair seemed
almost unmindful of the merry scene
,f which they were the occasion. AT
length, however, the pair separated
for q moment, and the fair one looked
around and smiled on the passengers.
Immediately dozen flinty hearts,
smitten with the appearance OF the
lady, acknowledged the potency OF her
sway and began to make themselves
irresistible in appearance by the sun
dry tying of scarfs, Strengthening OF
shirt-fronts, banging of hats and smooth
ing of heads, and returned the smiles
with the lavish interest of millionalres.
At this juncture one of the smitten
border gentlemen, deeming himself be-
yond compare, reached for the brawny
sleeping companion of the male gender,
who was making himself audible with
sundry excellent developed snores, and
lovingly pressed him TO his bosom; so
lovingly, indeed, that the aroused
sleeper opened his eyes with an ejacu-
lation which almost sent the embracer
to his feet. The embracer sought to
appease the enraged sleeper, and after
time succeeded.
He then directed the others atten-
ton to the spooney pair in the other
part of the car. As the half-sleepy
ewes took in the antics, the mouth
opened. and smile gradually stole
over the sun-burned face. The smile
,vaa followed bv n lauoh. the laugh by