Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-12-04
TALE OF THE TANGLED TWINS.
How Two Brothers Married Sisters
and Got HopelessIy BewIdered.

well, SIR said Mr.. Mel1 srgrass
to the visitor, Il reckon THAI about
the funniest thing that ever happened
in our town was the time the Higgins
twins courted the Virgins twins. And
to tell the truth, nobody is right sure
now that it was so fully after all, Ee-
cause it might have been all right,as
it was. You see, the Higgins twins
were boys and they looked so much
! like that neither of them know which
he was and the Virgins twins was
girls and they resembled each other
to such an extent that their mother
like to fed them to death for fear
she'd been feeding the wrong one all
the time instead of both of them.
'Of course, when the Higgins twins
began counting the Virgins girls it
seemed as it should be- But one
night one of the Higginses called Oh
one of the Wigginses and along about
10 o'clock the Virgins girl went into
the sitting-room and told her ma that
he had proposed to her and she didn't
know whether to accept him or not,
because she couldn't tell whether he
was the one that had been counting
her or not. So old Mrs. Virgins went
into the parlor and explained it to the
Higgins twin and he said he was in
the same fix himself, for he couldn't
rightly say whether or not he had
popped to the girl he wanted or to the
one his brother wanted. SO they de-
cided to let it rest and the young
folks considered themselves half en-
gagged, until a few nights later the
other Higgins twin-at least he said
he was-came along and proposed to
the other Virgins twin and then there
was the same argument all over again.
But this time old man Virgins
took hand in the dispute and asked
them why not go ahead and get ready
to be married anyway-said that the
hand of fate would work it out all
right and they could trust the little
blind god Cupid to know what he
was about. So they fixed up a big
wedding-a double wedding Of course
and people came from miles around
just to hang over the fence-them
that wasn't invited. And the minister
got all mixed up while he was marry
ing the two couples, and finally he
just sort Of scattered his shots, as
you might say, and got them all in a
convey, so to speak, and tied them I'D
in bunch. Then everybody kissed
them all around and congratulated
them and themselves, too.
But pretty soon one of the brides |
got kind of hystericky and declared |
that she believed she had been mar |
ried to the wrong twin, and then one |
of the Higginses, that didn't know |
which one of the Wigginses he had |
wanted to marry, or which one he had
been married to, either he got up and
said he feared he had been united
with the wrong girl, and in about two
minutes it was worse than puzzle
convention. The brides was alooking
at one another kind of suspicious,
and the grooms was wrangling away
with each other, trying to decide
which was which, and which wanted
which, and. taken altogether, it was
the rattledest crowd you ever saw.
And the preacher-he tucked his
double fees in his inside pocket and
allowed that he must hasten to a
funeral that was demanding his at
-ention. Just when the brides were
getting around to the weeping and
wailing point, and the grooms was
about ready to go out and get on a
trunk and forget everything, a smart
awyer chap got UP and said that the
pest plan was to arrange for a
Iuadruple divorce and the arrive at
;ome sort of an Identification, and get
married all over again. but separately
md distinctly the next time.
"And do you know continued Mr..