Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-08-02

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 d all their kinsmen and neighbors in and made great preparations. When the time drew nigh, they sent out two mes sengers to meet the grooms and thei1 brides with q trumpet to welcome and to accompany them.
 When they came near unto the house of Reuben, the father, the messengers came on before them and gave q shout. and the whole multitude ran out with shouts Of joy and music, playing on all kinds of instruments. Some were play ing on harps, some on viols and some blowing on rams horns. Some also were casting dust and ashes toward heaven, and chief among them all was Josiah, blowing his bugle and making sound so great the neighboring hills and valleys echoed with the resounding exclamation. When they had played and their harps had sounded till the grooms and their brides approached the gates, Reuben, the father, met them and welcomed them to his house. The wedding feast being now ready, they were all invited to sit down to eat placing the bridegrooms and their wives at each end of the table. Walters were then appointed to serve and wait on the guests. When all had eaten and were full and merry. they went out again and played and sang till night When they had made an end of feasting and rejoicing, the multitude dispersed, each going to his own home. The family then took seats with their walters to converse while preparations were being made in an upper chamber Tor the brides and grooms to be convey ed to their beds. This being done the Walters took the two brides up stairs, placing one in bed at the right hand of the stairs and the other on the left. The walters came down, and Nancy, the mother, then gave directions to the wait CTS of the bridegrooms, and they took them up stairs, but placed them ill the wrong beds The walters then all came ooWn stairs. But the mother, being fear 4al of mistake, made inquiry of the walters, and learning the true facts took me light and sprang up stairs It came !" pass she ran to one of the beds and exclaimed, 70 Lord, Reuben, you are i'll peo With the wrong wifep The young men, both alarmed at this, sprang up out of bed and ran with such violence agalnst each other they came near knock ns each other down. The tun1ult gave eNdenee to those below that the mistake was certain. So endeth the chapter. :"
 It Will readily be discerned that tke walters had been thoroughly drilled in aqVance for the respective parts each vas to play in this rather unique piece ol baekwoods horseplay. Of course it WIS the work of Abe, who had also a,foltly arranged with one of the invit- eu guests or attendants ut the infare sAen the feasting was ended to assist III the ceremony. The result was a eonedy o.l of errors. which gave Abe and oVnels Interested in the secret as much @.! S@s''!slactlon and joy as it occasioned the aiissny household embar rassment and VI eu'sfln' The chronicler also improved ~. a'e rare opportunity presented by cari- esg eessar,hg and puncturing Blue Nose VI ollawlord, who had exacted of him t, Mnen boy such an extreme penalty for 'a sne Damage done to his Life of Wash ngton. :"
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