The Opelousas courier., 1896-07-04

"~@M@@>"& Is the fight and
proper time, it ralet Stems to me, fol-
Young people to fall in love and &C
eoortin and git married and settle dow1
to business. But yet still at the same
time when the sap is up and the freshetk
fall and the creek Stops over, there is
trouble In the land and weepin and
wailin in the lowgrounds Of sorrow.
Fisd the Wrong Knot.
In the beginnin the Reverent Josh
Hanson got SO bad ratified over at Red
Level church one night, and made sieh
a tremendous big break till bless
gracious, he tied the writing kh3t and
mated Oft the WRONG pair.
The news had went out that Rams
Milligan and Miss Temple Murdoch had
come to the conclusion that life would
be a whole lot more brighter and hap.
pier with them if they would sail iii and
mix clothes for better Or for worse, till
death do them part. The show was set
for Friday night at candle light, and
most everybody in the settlement for
miles around turned out and went over
there to Red Level church to See the
sights and hear the fatal words spoke.
In the snain time Bud Newton had
sgteed to play as best man for the con-
Germ, and Miss Mandy Singleton she had
made engagements to stand up with
him whilst the preacher tied the knot
for Rams and Miss Tempie,
Now then, as to old Parson Hanson
well, the good Lord never pumped the
breath of mortal life into a better man
than him. But old man Josh is knockii
alon.p into the vale Of years and tears
considerable, end in regards to eyesight
he ii rhther dim and doubtful. And
what is worse and more of it, he is jest
naturally as nervous and skittish as a
right young girl. So consequentially he
went to work years ago and fixed up his
little weddin speech and got it by heart,
and he don't have to do any teadih in
orderment to tie the knot, and tie it SO
it will hold through thick and thin,
henceforwards and forever.
The church was crowded to standin
room only that night. Bless gracious,
the people were damned and pack in
there so reglar and SO thick till you
couldn't of stirred EN- WITH / red-hot
poker. They come by tw6s and in
droves, In wagons, on horseback and
nfoot-which, you understand, the
weather was pleasant and the mo n was
full and bright, and it seems lik every
body thought it was a bulsdrfime of
year for weddins.
AT any rates-in the general hum and
push and stir and excitement-old Par
son Hanson lost his nerve and went
ruttled and got things all mixed and
muddled up to a terrible extent. And
at last when the time come to
proceed with the proceedins blamed If
he didn't pitch in, sight onseen," as it
were, and marry the wrong couple. Old
man Bunk Weatherford was there and
lie riz up in the crowd and tried to stop
the parson and switch him around on
the right track. But the parson he was
goin it blind, in SIGH a wild swish and
swivel to git the dread off and the agony
over, till it seems like nothin could stop
him till it was e~verlastingly too late.
Then Bud Newton and Miss Mandy
Singleton stood forth as man and wife,
with all that tremendous big crowd for
witnesses, whilst Rams Milligan and
Miss Temple Murdoch looked like they
had been sent for and couldn't come
across. Old Misses Singleton the
mother of Miss Mandy Singleton, as
she had been, but Misses Bud Newton as
she now was-screamed and tainted on
the spot. Rams and Miss Temple turned
and red by fits and starts. Miss
Mandy she cried a little around the
and when the old parson found
out what a scandlous big mess he had
Observation-Disclosures to himself, as it
vere-he broke out in a cold sweat and
wound up with a buck ager.