The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1883-09-19
COUSIN TOMS WEDDING.


and lead the procession.
Now you must both put ON your best
behavior. said mother, after we had wor-
riedI ourselves into our new clothes on
the aH-important night; then she kissed
rs just as If we'd been going to bed, and
sent us off to the church an hour before
the time.
We found the sexton Just opening the
doors, and he let us go round with him
while he lighted up, and then / pro-
posed that we should stand outside and
watch the people come.
Il wonder 4 Cousin Tom feels nerv-
ous," said Claude, as we walked down
the steps under the awning. 'I shouldn't t
think he would, though, for you know
doctors But I say, Bert, what's the
mattef down the street therea See all
that crowdP Let's run and find out !"
"Come on.n crieds ssI'n beat you
there. and forgetting all about our good
clothes and ssbest Behavior" we both
started of down the block.
somethingr' / exclaimed, as won the
race and found lot of people bending
over the form of man lying on the
grass IN front of the Baptist Church.
We both stood still for minute, and
] was trying to listen to what gentle
man next to me was telling policeman.
when Claude pulled me by the sleeve
and whispered that it might be the very
case Cousin Tom, who had Just gradu-
ated at the Medical School, was waiting
for.
Lets tell him all about itr' 1 cried.
"Quick, before they get somebody else;"
and then, we both tore off to his lodg-
ings, around the corner, and pulled the
ben as If the house was afire- q:
I tell you, the girl came to the door
In hurry, and without waiting for her
20 announce us we bolted upstairs to
Cousin Toms room, and rushed in to
find him just putting on his white satin
neck-tie.
ssOh. do come quickr' we both fairly
shouted. sSuch a."
why, boys. what's the matterP" he
exclaimed, making . muddle of his era
vat "Has Alice tainted, or the dress
maker forgotten to send her dress home.
mo, no." cried Claude, There's q
man hurt, and an awful crowd, and"
ssQuick, how far from herePn inter-
rupted Cousin Tom, leaving the two
ends Of his tie hanging, and snatching
his pea-jacket- sI can spare just
twenty minutes"
.sWhy, it's only around the corner, in
front of the Baptist Church." !
replied, dancing around the room in
great excitement; and then we all three
raced of.
.sWhere is he, boysp'' cried Cousin
Tom, and Claude pointed inside the
railing that ran in front of the church,
and against which, strange to say, mo-
body was leaning.
Then. not waiting to hunt up the
1afe. or1r cousin. who was a great strap-
Ding fellow. shouldered his way through
the crowd. and without paying any
attention to. the efforts some of the
people made to hold him back, he
placed his hands on the top rail of the
fence to vault over. | ~
sgsinst Claude, who, Of course fell
AGAINST me, and we all three went
down one after another like a row Of
bricks, while the people set up such q
yen that you might have thought they
had all turned into wild Indians on the
war-path- Being boys, and quite used
to hard knocks, neither Claude nor
was hurt, and we sprang up as lively
as ever when Cousin Tom was lifted of
of us. But there was not much sprine
about him, and we were awfully fright
ened when we found that he couldn't
even speak.
Then they explained the whole thing
to Us, which was something like this
there was an electric light in front O
the store next the church, and IN soms
way the stuff-the electric fluid or what