St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1896-07-11
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nix clothes for better or for worse. tall {
cath do them part. The show was ses
or Friday night at candle light. ana
most everybody in the settlement for
niles around turned out and went over
here to Red Level church to see the
;irhts and hear the fatal words spoke.
In the main time Bud Newton had
,xreed to play n best man for the con-
,ern. and Miss Mandy Singleton she had
made engagements to stand up WIN
him whilst the preacher tied the knot
for Rams and Miss Temple.
Now then, ~ to old Parson Hanson
well, the good Lord never pumped the
breath OF mortal life into better man
lhan him. But old man Josh IL knockin
along into the vale of years and tears
and inregar1s to eye
he il ruther dim and doubtfeS
what Is worse and more Of It, hels
a nervous and skittish -
right young girl. So consequentially ne
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 readin IN
orylerment to tie the knot. and tie It %
il will hold through thick and thin.
henceforwaris and forever.
The church was crowded to standin
room only that night. Bless gracious.
the people were jammed and pack In
there SO reglar and 70 thick till you
couldn't OF stirred EN- with . red-hot
poker. They come by twos and IN
droves, in wagons. on horseback ana
afoot-which, you understand. the
weather was pleasant and the moon was
full and bright, and It seems like every
body thought it was . bully time OF
wear for weddins.
At any rates-in the general hum and
push and stir and excitement-old Par
son Hanson lost his nerve and went
rattled and got things al mixed and
muddled up to . terrible extent. And
finally at last when the time come to
proceed with the proceedins blamed II
he didn't pitch in. sight onseen, as +
were, and marry the wrong couple. Old
man Bunk Weatherford was there and
I,e riz up in the crowd and tried to stop
the parson and switch him around on
The right track. But the parson he was
roin il blind, in sich = wild swish and
swivet to git the dread OF and the agony
over. till il seems like pothin could stop
him till Il was everlastingly too late.
Then Bud Newton and Miss Mandy
Singleton stood forth ~ man and wife,
with Ill that tremendous big crowd for
witnesses, whilst Rams Milligan and
Miss Temple Murdock looked like they
had been sent for and couldn't come
across. Old Misses Singleton - the
mother Of Miss Mandy Singleton. q
| she had been, but Misses Bud Newton q
she now was-screamed and tainted or
the spot. Rams and Miss Temple turned
white and red by flts and starts. Miss
Mandy she cried little around tha
edges, and when the old parson found
out what scandlous big mess he has
made-unbeknowa to himself, q
were-he broke out in = cold sweat ans
wound up with : buck ager.
The otoFD Daowoa Oves.
il N would seem like everybody got rat
tea and went to pieces that night
everybody exceptin Bud Newton. IN
family records will show that Bud ~
horn in the dead Of winter. HewaA bor
cool. The higher the storm rises n
, cooler YOU will find Bud Newton. II
. takes things as they come and 30. IN
, .est naturally don't give : durn."
When II come Buds time 70 give u al
opinions in regards to what had com
. 10 pass he lowed he didn't give : duEn.
. lie didn't 20 over there that night
eit married and he never did AK Aii
Mandy to have him, but Il the gam
Ifad 10 stand where IL was and The q
WAS willin,'' 1t didn't make coneine'
tial durn bit Of difference with him.
The parson said he was mighty sorI
! that he made the Rad break, but q
! Erot was then tied hard and fast IN
rothin but death or the chancery coul
| could cut it in two. He couldn't spa
n or,t and start over, hut he could procee
Win the proceedips, tie another kn'
.rd mako Rams and Miss Temple MI
i. ma wife II they was still in the MOTTO
. naturally Of course Rams and ~
|. r.mnia was stil in the notion. and :!
!. rereon then put in and spoke his hts
=. C0te400s0T1eQ kSSe~0 -
: made two souls happy and two hesa
glad.
4 Nkewi.e also willin. She had wept y
! ~..t a. at IL tAeughts o6 gess
d | hooked up IN doshls harnsss With =
"A N.~ton when ~ want lookin, .
: were, but shs couldn't help y nsw =
"a I-weI, ahe was wiHn.
ri HuA the STORM which 4 was ht
snd furious It Red Level tnas -
III IrisAt-blowed OVER. Two weddi
hei cone to pass instid q oae-fOw p
a IA rot mated o6 s0r life tnstad q 3
q EyerythinR that eoes Up must -
a down. The good old parson nnady
a covered. Rams and Nin Tempie 60
a q .croes at last Ans Mandy she y
- : iIlin, Bud Newtm ~ jest natura
= Il dianst give d1Tn. ~ evesy0e
lvnt hdne happG. - - ehnnes