Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1884-04-25
The Brids Who Diidn I DE IN an t..a
Chest.

The fair limo gone d Eustis had been
welded to the knig htlY Sem Higgins.
The Clergyman had been handed two
dollars in cash TO pay for the splicing,
the guests wore filing themselves up
with eatab les, and eyefyu sslirsss was slid
ing along rs snaoo thly MS y cider mill
sailing down on q spring lleshet, when
all at once the bride y, IS missing.
Her newly-founa llns band loo ed un-
der tile table. hut she was not there. i.
The guests eessarated to search,
Some looked down the Netl--others
down the cellar ilars IN tive hen-coop
and sfneks-5ense and behind the pig
per. Imosen {. 4. q
Then some said that. she had been
abducted, while Others seaifel at the
Idea Of. a girl Weig Ching 1876 pounds and
having . scream which could be heard
two miles, being carried eff in broad
dayli .ht, and in q neighborhood where
the Democrats had over 200 majority.
Adjective was called in. ! He look
ed at her old shawl, measured the
length Of her old shoes. and decided
thatit was q mysterious affair. He
would take the ease il desired, but
world not promise any satisfactory go
luton under year and a half.
The fair Imogene's father hadn't be-
trayed much excitement up to this
point. The wedding feast was the first
square meal he had tackled for six
months, and he wanted to fill up before
giving way to emotion. He was now
full. He turned around upon the, ex-
cited and distressed guests, commanded
them to hush their hullaballo, and dis
appeared up stairs.
When the coy 1mogene slipped away
from the feast it was to see If her nus
band woulti miss and follow her. She
slid up stairs, noun ed to the garnet,
and after brushing the cobwebs off her
nose she advanced to the biz blue chest
in the corner. This chest had been
made to hold her fathers government
bonds, and was hoped with iron and
provided with q spring lock, which
never cost less than a dollar. Her
mission was to hide in the chest and
see ii her husband would be soft enough
to climb up there and throw up the lid
and cali peek-a~boo. AS the reader
knows he wasn't the man TO catch on.
The old man d Eustis walked up
stairs and made his way to the garnet
through the same trap~door the bride
had used. He thought she might be up
there to take last farewell look at the
butches Of catnip, mouldy school books
and broken spinning wnccls. He could
not see her. He called aloud, but the
whistle Of the tug on the river was the
only answer. He t,rned TO go but
something whispered to him that per-
haps he might find plug Of tobacco
or a bottle OF stomach hitters in the old
chest. He advanced with beating heart
and thrc" up the lid
"Whv, pop, is this your eric1 the
fair Imoyenc as she spang up and rip
ped her bridal dress clear down the
| back.
Yes, this is met grovled the old
man, "anl what the jimcracks are YOU
doing hcrr?:'
*Hilinr from Sam
y N . tarnal mind to box your ears,
big as you are: HIRE you've raised 81
regular city convention all over the
h~1!sc, spp.it dress which cost nee $!i
with tie making, upset your Mother,
, ar3 !. S:cc":rt oll Mra. s...iGot in:o q Ill:
! :'r.ca g. ,,on t--'
You GIT! ~b.a? yourself through
that trap-hole, skip down there and
tell the crowd that you don't know
beans wnon the bags unt;cd. "
! And the bride go. And her husband
was 50 mail th;tt he burnt up a flee
railroad pass to Chicago, and her moth
er cried, and her father went of down
town to play poker, and, taken all in
al, the coy bride and the old chest and
the spring lock business didn't pay ten
! cents on the dollar.