The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1891-11-15

Aunt Becky says Alhamhry Jane
sometimes when we air sitting mp cham
ber sewing, II don't think i'll should
i've TO be as old as Methuselum should
ever forget what an awful time i had ON
my wedding outing Sometimes wake
up in the night and feel as eff I should
expire inst thinking 1t over When
she makes them remarks don't encour-
age her to go on; faint good for her.
Never grind things over, and oilers
silet the doors behind you, Alhambry,s
says In this here vale Of tears suthin
another is bound to concur. / believe
just SO much trouble Is rationeds out to
yon, and what you've had you won't hev
again.
But a body's wedding outing is said to
be the blissfulest time O life" says Al
hanbry
80 it is in theorems, Alhambry, says
!; 'b1lt mostly never in practition New
unions is usually the most uncomfortable
parties On a train of keers. She's afeaiu
nobody won't know she's a bride, and
he's skeered for fear they'll be found
out. She acts foolish and he acts stiff.
His ma has made him feel awful, cryin
and wishin he may be happy, as eff she
know'dehe couldn't. Mostly they go one
way and their trunks another, he loses
his keys and checks and she leaves her
bag intosthe rack.
Oh, such things You could laugh at,
says AIhaubry, but what happened to
me was worse than ever happened to
apybody before
AlaaubEy Jane, /" I tell her, ssyou don't
know All that has happened. Some has
been barmed upsor o0llided and carried
70 their prsiestinations without no heads
on.
talked 90, but twixt you and me,
AihambrS Janesand Neptune didthaye
most awful time, and SO you'll think
when tellsyou al aboutsit
Thatold hair trunk .tllatG Great gran
per Rusk sots SO much by was at the
: bottom Of the trouble. 'Twas beau
tiful trunk, too, fnst off. You've seen
that kindsstored 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
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-grauper Rusk had
bought 1t 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
to Niagara, and Alhambry's mother took
1t onto her outing, and Alhambry's pa
took it to Washington when he went
there in war times Alhambrys oldest
sister, Hetty, never forgot that, because
her pa put her into it fur fun while he
was packing it DIT held all creation and
wern't never full), and bein obstructive
BY natur forgot all about it and locked
her up. Wouldn't hey found her until
be got to Washington eff her granmer
hadn't insisted onto it she heard the kit
ten mewin inside. So, behold, 'twarn't
the kitten, twas Hetty most snothered
and skeered to death
Well, since that time it had lived M
garnet 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 Rnsk, goin on fur ninety-four, used
to take company up to see it and pint
out lts beauties. Twas jest as good as
new, only ii had lost one handle and the
blacksmith had put a leather one onto
II, and it looked a little like it needed
hair restoratives since the moth year.
Kinder q plague of moths that came on
Claerville 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
hambsy and Neptune Belcher would
have ail outing. that Great-granper Rusk
ehould up and say:
Things hes got to be done good fur
Alhanbry. Don't spare nothin fur the
gal. She is favyrite of fixy things.
She shill have my big hair trunk to
travel with. Folks shin see that she
comes of people that's had things. There
amt q trunk like that to be found mo-
where now. Fetch itdown, James Peter,
and duet it out fur your sister. What
y0n grimm about, James Petergv
Only sulilin to think how pleased
1-eFtbt ~ ~, r02Alro ctf-l rfs1Jh- l1e WAS
clerking it down 10 New York and knew
more about new styles in trunks than
Great granper Rusix did
Very well, my son, says the old gem
tlelnan; do as say and fetch it down
10 James Peter up and fetches it.
kin hear it burnpin on the gayret stairs
now, and granper he went to look at it
standir in the spare bedroom.
It's been on three weddins already"
Gays be; sthis will be the fourth. Who
Is that pumpin outside, l wonderT'
Guess neighbor Jones IS borryiDg
bucket Of water. = SEE i, but knowed
twarnt the pump. I knowed it was
poor little Alharnbry sobbin fit to kill
herself, and slipped out into the porch
and found her cryin as if her sheart
would break. her head hid in the ivy
vine.
Alhambry.s says i. II understand
your feeIin's but you had orfer been
prepared for II. and rubin Your nose
and forehead into the pison ivy won't
EeIP you none.