The Sunday morning news., 1891-11-15


sometimes when we air sitting upfcham-
Der sewing, 81 don't think if;I should
live to be as old as Methuselum should
ever forget what an awful timeI had on
my wedding outing. Sometimes wake
up in the night and feel as eff should
expire just thinking it over" When
she makes them remarks I don't encour-
age her to go on; faint good for her.
s'Never grind things over, and oilers
shet the doors behind you, Alhambry,"
Isays. "In this here vale Of tears suthin
just SO much trouble is rationed out to
you, and what you've had you won't hev
again"
ssBut body's wedding outing is said to
be the blissfulest time O life," says Al
hambry.
$50 it is in theorems, Alhambry," says
/; ''but mostly never in practition. New
unions is usually the most uncomfortable
parties ON a train of keers. She's afeaM
nobody won't know she's a bride, and
he's skeered for fear they'll be found
out. She acts foolish and be acts stiff.
His ma has made him feel awful, cryin
and wishin he may be happy, as eff she
know'd he couldn't. Mostly they go one
way and their trunks another, he loses
his keys and checks and she leaves her
bag sintosthe rack"
seCh.p such things you could laugh at, !"
says Alhanibry, s'but what happened to
me was worse than ever happened to
anybody before"
q 'AlhantrE Jane, tell her, "you don't
know all that has happened. Some has
been btumedup.or collided and carried
to their prSdsstinations without no heads
on"
I talked SO, but twixt you and me,
Alhambry Janesand dsN Neptune did have a
most awful time,i gand SO you'll think
when teaf you all aboutsit.
That old hair trunk THAT Great-gran-
per Rusk sDts so much by was at the
bottom Of the trouble. Twas a beau
tiful trunk, too, .fust off. You've seen
that kindtstored away in garrets, likely.
Jest the color Of an Alderny COW, with
leather bands and brass nails and brass
handles, and name in brass nails on
the side. "Rusk" was on this one, and a
hasp as big as that on barn door, and
great key to lock it with. This one
was lined with blue paper with gilt
stars onto it. Great-granper Rusk had
bought it fur him and his companion
when they started onto wedding tower
in eighteen hundred and four, and his
daughter, Alhambry's grandmother, had
took it when she was married and went
70 y, +rx~
it onto her outing, and Alhambry's pa
took it to Washington when he went
there in war times Alhanbry's oldest
sister, Hetty, never forgot that, because
her pa put her into itfur fun while he
was packing it (it held all creation and
wernt never fully, and bein abstractive
by natur forgot all about it and locked
her up. Wouldn't hev found her until
he got to Washington Of her granmer
hadn't insisted onto it she heard the kit
ten mewin inside. So, behold, 'twarn't
the kitten, twas Hetty most smothered
and skeered to death.
Well, since that time it had lived up
garret mostly with carpet rags into it.
Sometimes you'd find kittens there eff
the cover had been left up. Twas
mighty handsome still, and Great-gran-
per Rusk, goin ON fur ninety-four, used
to take company up to see it and pint
out it's beauties. Twas jest as good as
new, only it had lost one handle and the
blacksmith had put leather one onto
it, and it looked little like it needed
hair restoratives since the moth year.
Kinder a plague of moths that came on
Cideryille one spring and devoured all
the furs and woolens
Well, 'twarn't only what / expected,
when jest as soon as the wedding was
talked of and it was decided that AL
hambry and Neptune Belcher would
have an outing, that Great-granper Rusk
should up and say:
'.Things hes got to be done good fur
Alhambry. Don't spare nothin fur the
gal. She is favyrite of fixy things.
She shill have my big hair trunk to
travel with. Folks shiI1 see that she
comes of people that's had things. There
amt a trunk like that to be found no
where now. Eetchitdown, James Peter,
and dust it out fur your sister. What
you grimm about, James Peter
"Only smilin to think how pleased
sisterll be-" James Peter says. He was
clerking it downin New York and knew
more about new styles, in trunks than
Greatgranper Ruslo did.
VERY well, my SON., says the old gen
tleinan; ''do as say and fetch it down. .
So James Peter up and fetches it,
kin hear it bumpin on the garret stairs
now, and granper he went to look at il
standin in the spare bedroom.
.sIts been on three weddin's already, >
says he; stthis viii be the fourth. Who
is that pumpin outside, Iwonder?"
Guess neighbor Jones is borrying a
bucket Of water" sez I. but knowed
'twarn't the pump. I knowed it was
poor little Alhanbry sobbin fit to Kill
herself, and slipped ont into the porch
and found her cryin as if her hear
would break, her head hid in the iy.
vine.
~Alhambry,~ says /, Il understand
your feehn's. but you had orter beel
prepared for 1t, and rubbin your nos
and forehead into the pison ivy won
help YOU none. I"