The Press., 1892-02-04


 ever forget what an awful time | had son myawsdding outing. Sometimes Iswake up in the night end feel as ef I should expire just thinking it tover.n When she makes them refnarks I don't t:encour- age her to goson; 'tain't good for her. t4i l. .sNever grind things over, and oilers .shet: the doors behind yous Alhambry.a I says. "In this here vale of tears sushiu another is bound to concurs believe just so much trouble is Tationed but te you, and what you've had youwen't hev again. |. ss8 M .gsd sE
 'sBut ta body's wedding outing issaid to be the blissfuiest time Q Hfe,s says Al hambry. 1sEa s..a .4ss
 ''So it is in theorems, AlhambFys" says I; 'tbut mostly never in practition. New unions Is usually the most uncomfortable parties on q train of keefs. She's a1eard nobody won't know shssa brids, and he's skeered for fear they'll ,he found out. She acts foolish and he acts StiH. His ma has made him feel awful, cryiu and wishin he may be happy, as ct she know'd he couldn't. Mostly they go one way and their trunks another, ha loses his keys and checks and she leaves her bag into the rack" rg
 ''Oh, such things you could laugh at, ! says Alhambry, "but what happened to me was worse than ever happened tc anybody before. "' @d 9t ss
 ".Alhambry Jane, ,"I Itelh her. ''youdon't know all that has happened. Some has been burned up or colhded and carried to their predestinations without no heads on." .r;7s,
 I talked so, but twixt you andlme, Alhambry Jane and Neptune did have a most awful time, and 50 you'll sthink when I tell you all about 5it. As ,e.
 That old hair trunk that Great-gran- per Rusk sbts so much by was at tht bottom of the trouble. Twas ssb beau, tiful trunk, too, fust of. You've seen that kind stored away in garrets, likely, Jest the color of an Alderny COW, wifl leather bands and brass nails and brasi handles, and name in brass nails or the side. "Rusk" was on this one, and s hasp as big as that on barn door, and 8 great key to lock 1t with. This ons was lined with blue paper with gill stars onto it. Great-granper RuskI had bought it fur him and his companion when they started onto wedding tower in eighteen hundred and four, and hia daughter, Alhambry's graudmothers had took it when she was marxzssa and went to Niagara, and A1hambry. | mother tool 1t onto her outing, and AlhambTy's prls; took 1t to Washington when he went there in war times. Alhambry's oldest sister, Hetty, never forgot that, becahse her pa put her into it fur fun while he was packing 1t it held all creationi and wern't never full), and bein abstracttye by natur forgot all about 1t and locked her up. Wouldn't hev found her nntl he got to Washington eff her granrnea hadn't insisted onto 1t she heard the kit. ten mewin inside. So, behold. 'twafnsl the kitten, twas Hetty most smothered and skeered to death.
 We'll, since that time 1t had lived ur garret mostly with carpet rags into. 1t. Sometimes you'd find kittens there of the cover had been left up. Twas mighty handsome still, and Great-grkh. per Rusk, goin on fur ninety-four, used to take company up to see 1t and pint out its beauties. Twas Jest as good aas new, only it had lost one handle and the blacksmith had put 8 leather one onto it, and it looked little like it needed hair restoratiyes since the moth year. Kinder plague of moths that came on Oiderville one spring and deVonred all the' furs and dwoolens.
 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 Rnsk should up and say:
 Things hes got to be done good fur Alhambry. Don't spare nothin fur the gal. She Is favyrite of fxy things. She shill have my big hair trunk to travel with. Folks shil sec that she comes of people that's had things. There ain't g trunk like that to be found mo- where now. Fetch 1t down, James Peter, and dust ae out fur your sister. What you grinin about, James Peter?r
 Only smilin to think how pleased sistern be-" James Peter says. He was clerking itdown in New York and knew more about new styles in trunks than Great-granper Rusk did.
 "Very well, my son. says the oldIRen- tleinan; "do as say and fetch 1t down. :"
 So James Peter up and fetches it. 1 kin hear 1t bumpin on the garret stairs now, and granper he went to look at 1t standin in the spare bedroom.
 "It's been on three weddin's already, \ says he; ''this will be the fourth. Who is that pumpin outside, wender2" n,
 "quess neighbor Jones is borrying a bucket of water" sez I, but knowed 'twarn't the pump. I knowed it was poor little Alhambry sobbn 1t to kfll herself. and l slipped out into the porch and found her cryin as if her heaft would break. her head hid in the ivy vine.
 .Alhambry.. says 1. "I understand your feelin's, but you had orter been prepared for 1t. and rubbin xour Inoss and forehead into the pison ivy won,t help you none."
 Il don't care.. said Alhambry. ..1 don't care what becomes of me if I've got to go on my wedding trip with Noah's ark for 8 trunk. and 'sRusk" on It like it was bakers wagon You've heard ma talk about how she felt when she had to take it, and it's worse now
 "rve heard your ma rAtail her suffer- in's.r says l, "but sshs lived through them :. So win you.
 No, l shan't," says AlhAmbrys .'Pd rather be took for anything than q crank lywenst have that thing poked onto ma EfI had ia relstionshfp chat had any detachment Tor me they'd rise up in my offsnss when tmUst need 'em. You can carry on when you're . mind to. Aunt Becky; why air you dumb and moti0n1esB now9" Haeg
 ar Alhaznbfy Jane, ,says !, s..yoarg great granper ina hat'rally quite an elderly agsds old gentleman. and sOt. Eur to bsE fur the first time h his iinety-oneth year might be fatal More 'veE. though I'm not mercenazicuss l