The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-10-25
A UNIQUE FRIDAY TOUR.
A "Tell it To Me" Story by Charles H
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A "Tell it To Me" Story by Charles H,
 Day.
 The perty and pretty granddaughter closed the book of fiction as she read the last lines of the fascinating lines of the author with the remark:
 And the bride and groom departed from the baronial mansion for a bridal tour through the adjoining counties, their departure in the coach and four made gay by the traditional shower of rice and slippers and best wishes of the merry throng,
 That is well told story with hap py ending all stories should have a pleasing termination"
 But only think of it. granny; brid- al tour with a four-in-hand."
 My mother made her bridal tour in a stage coach, with four in hand at the pole and in the traces, by easy stages, all the way from New Haven to New York" said grandma, with olllllS GU LllC SleIHOC1lllQ GAClduld LlQ0s
 "How very romantic!"
 And wearying at the best" added the grandparent. T once made the jeunt myself cs I had dread of the matter and never was a good sailor" After a pause she added: T know girl who had a unique wedding jour, ney''-
 "Tell it to me, cried the miss. "oh, tell it to me. True stories are always the best"
 When this young lady was gay and giddy like yourself" ''Why, grandma"
 "Peddlers used to travel the country in my younger days, wholesaling goods to the small merchants. Some of them were stores on wheels, Colonel Jim Fisk was four-hand peddler before he engaged in the dry goods line in Boston or drifted to Wall street, New York. Right here in New Haven Cowles X Leete had a peddler with four selling drugs and medicines, and Dawson & Douglass had a similar outfit disposing of confectionery. L. L, Bishop of this town sold fancy goods and notions. Yankee notions they called them in my day. He also had a store in the city. There was a notion peddler from Nor wich. too. We called it Norridge then. There was Hardy, the cigar man, who handled cigars and tobacco on the road and his half brother who hailed 1 from Vermont and sold Hardy's salve. There was the pile-man Herrick and I1,,o, where as did all the patent medicine men of that day. Grandma laughed as she added: T must not forget the lightning rod men and the keen chaps who sold chimes and clocks" The ven- erable granddame unused for moment before she confided: Why, my dear, Stephen Gilbert, who used to drive for Dawson & Douglass, is keeping store in North Haven He always stopped at my fathers tavern when he was in our town"
 But the young lady?" reminded the impatient miss.
 "The young lady was the daughter of a tavern keeper"
 Lust like yourself--'
 Just like myself The peddlers used to put up at her fathers tavern, and she got to know a good many ot l them. They were a shrewd, smart lot, dear; just peddlers and not commercial travellers, as traveling salesmen got to be known in after years. Why, the 1 peddlers used to have an annual ball every winter that was truly the event 1 of the season; they used to come from all over New England to participate in i the dance-'
 And you was the grandma?-"
 'Of course I was, child Didn't I confess a moment ago I was young and giddy."
 And that tavern keepers daughter, the heroine of your story?"
 Fell in love with a peddler-"
 "Who drove four in hands 5
 "Who drove four in hands
 And"
 And in due course of time they rather suddenly welded"
 Suddenly"
 "Very suddenly" returned grandma, with an unusual lok on her sweet face as she provokingly paused.
 And the unique wedding journey?"
 "Was made on a peddler's wagon drawn by four in hand"
 T suppose they eloped?' inquired the inquisitive miss,
 Grandma's S face was very red as she replied unguardedly:
 "We eloped."
 At that frank confession the pert miss clapped her hands and exclaimed:
 My grandma!"