The Arkansaw traveler., 1889-06-01

lated me. was gratifed until learned that he
thought | had drawn lottery prize. Wonder
WHY Fred did not conner"
"Fell in love with some old lady on the way and
stopped to WOO her" the colonel replied.
Bennington" said Mrs. Osbury "you must not
speak 30 of the child"
"Well, Mary don't know, you understand, but
merely suppose So"
81 have engaged music for this OCCASION" Henry
remarked.
emusic |" Lucille exclaimed. 1--WE don't want any
music-we won't have any, will we Philip We
want this to be the most quiet and informal mar
riage that was ever known In this neighborhood."
81 didn't know that, sister, or should not have
made arrangements contrary to such inten-
ton. l saw Hammonds yesterday and told him
to bring his fiddle with him and that Uncle
Buck with his flute"
"Pll be snatched If Pm going to be made fun of
this way" Buck exclaimed. "Here I've been
workin' like niger that other people might
enjoy themselves and-well won't stand IL, REM
ingtou; swear | won't. Toilin' like slave while
other people air sittn back i'm their offices Twin
on the fat of the land"
wait" said Henry, "you didn't let me finish.
told him that you with your flute would be an
addition to any orchestra, but that you played
only for your own delectatiOn."
"You didn't tell him no such of thing, sub, and
you know it," Buck roared.
"Well," said the colonel, "let ii all go all GO
Buck, you are getting to be as touehous as stone
bruise."
eyes but, Remington l don't want anybody to
be all the time punchin me. If Hammonds brings
that fiddle here, I'll be POUNDS If don't break IT,
or have mighty rassle with him."
The ceremony was to be performed at two o'clock
in the afternoon, and Immediately after dinner the
"happy couple"-as the newspapers say-were to
set out for Emryville to "catch"-another jour
nalist expression-the four o'clock train. We had
all agreed to employ ourselves during the MORN
ing, in usual way, drawing about none of
the solemnities and endorsements of an approach
ing marriage Mrs. Osbury, to whom were
compelled to grant mothers privilege, would
occasionally indulge the luxury of distressing
sigh, but the colonel was more than usually cheer
full, Henry was prankish and Lucille was as bright
as the beautiful morning. Uncle Buck seemed to
be impatient, and, at quite an early hour, began to
"fdget" around and take, from the gallery door,
occasional peeps at the clock. I afterward learned
that he extremely proud of the figure he pre-
sented upon any extra occasion, and that his
anxious chances at the clock were prompted by
fear that he might not have time enough to dress
himself properly. The old man fought, during
two hours, his keen anxiety, and then went up
stairs. About an hour later he came down arrayed
as Henry expressed it, in his fierce regimentas. He
wore white linen pantalOons, with traces of mill
dew about the knees,-a satin "vest" with gourd-
shaped figures; yellow gloves, a bronze colored
cravat and blue cloth coat, with brass buttons,
woefully pigeon tailed When he came out on the
gallery where the rest of the family sat, Henry,
looking up in well put-on surprise, said:
"Why, Uncle Buck, you are not going to leave
us at such time this, are your"
"Leave What do you mean?"
There are plenty of days when you can drill"
"What the deuce do you mean Henry?"
"Why, haven't you rugged yourself up for
military parade2"
The old man snorted like horse "Military
parade I" he roared "I'l be eternally blowed If
am going to stand this persecution much longer
There was a time-and you know the time, Rem
ington-when a gentleman could dress himself in q
respectable way without being sneered at but now,
il he tries to look decent q howl is raised This
internal age is not satisfied with grinding gentle
man down till he has to work like q niger from
morn till night, but wants him to dress like a
niger"
He sat down with violence that Jared the
gallery, and, looking at Henry, slowly winked his
eyes and shook his head like an old-time negro