The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1903-11-04
DR.. SINCLAIR'S BOSTON LETTER.
From third page.

is terrible tangle. l saw the
mistake at once and got the right
man huStled-I dare not use this
word here; we are in Boston, you
know-into the right place. But it
was the next thing to miracle that
the fair bride was not married to
the brother. That, after all, might
not have made much difference in
real life, but it would have caused
comment, to say the least, if it had
been done. | think, on the whole,
it was well it was discovered in
time.
had another marriage last night
at o'clock. This marriage was at
a house two miles away. When I
got the church affair over, found a
carriage at the door waiting to take
me to marry couple number two.
| jumped in. 1t was then past 8
0 clock. | poked out my head at the
window and asked the man how
long he would take to drive.
Twenty minutes. After a while
| saw that it was S45. 1 called the
driver S attention to it. He said !:
Il am just wondering if I am not
on the wrong road" And on the
wrong road he was. He got out
and inquired at a house, and found
be had to go back a mile or more.
When we got there, a little after 9
o'clock, we found the people in con-
siderable excitement. I assured
the bride that the luckiest thing
that could happen was for the min
lister to be late. She looked happy
then. She was bonnie bride, and
her husband, handsome young
clerk, looked as if he would like to
eat her up.
l am starting in lively with mar
riages. l have another next We'd
nesday and baptism the same
week; but no word of any funerals
yet. Even with mistakes and miss
ing of the road, 1 like marriages,
and am likely to have more of them
here than I have had at either of
my former parishes in the United
States.
Yesterday morning I went to the
Brookline post-ofice to mail several
letters. I had been there before,
more than once, and had not made
the discovery to which I now refer.
am in the habit of looking at the
addresses of my letters while I'drop
them into post-office box. Hooked
at number one and dropped it into
the box with a brass clapper marked
LETTERS. I started when bell
inside rang furiously. concluded,
however, that I had nothing to do
with the ringing of the bell; looked
at number two, and let it drop.
Again the bell rang as furiousIy as
before. When this was repeated
the third time, I saw through the
brass grated window a man come
rushing up. He stared at me and
remarked, eff you haye many more
specials perhaps you had just better
hand them to me through the win
dow and save us all this noise" l
then observed that above the box
were the words especial delivery"
We are in Boston, you know.
There are many things I would
like to tell you, but I am in rush
so far. I may say that the express
sion, "in a rush." is counted bad
form here. By the by, that incident
in the street car the other day illus
trates the properness in speech of
the people of Boston, A New York
lady started for the door of the car
gesticulating wildly with her UNI
brella at the conductor and exclaim-
ing, "You have took me two blocks
past my place." The conductor
looked bewildered and made no sign
of stopping the car. He was para
lyzed. When the car had travelled
several hundred yards farther, he
slowly raised his hand to the cord
and as the lady stepped down he
muttered in kind of injured tone,
"You should have said, You have
taken me two squares past my DIES
tination. I did not witness this
incident, but ] saw it recorded in