Beverly banner. [volume] (Beverly, N.J.) 1877-1964, 1925-03-13

through the snow, and reckon I'll
have to TAX to the dogs mighty soon
This is winter for sure at lastl''
He scrutinized the pair keenly. eye
havna made another Of your queek
changesT" he inquired, with an absurd
affectation Of archness that set them
| both laughing.
mo; I've fulfilled the conditions
that were imposed on me-" Lee an
swered, and with that narrated his
adventures in the mine.
"And Miss Pelly has promised to
marry me tomorrow" he ended men
daciously.
"N-not tomorrow, Lee" said Joyce.
And Father McGrath, who had been
listening to Lees story with many
CALCULATIONS, looked so severe that Lee
had sudden terror that he would re-
fuse to perform the ceremony.
'The day after, then, Joyce?" Lee
pleaded.
Joyce interposed no veto this time,
but was blushing like a rose and look
ing auOrdDIy COuIuSeu.
"Weel-' began the father. ''Weel,
I'm not in favor of such queeckness.
Have you two young folks conseedered
the consequences of matreemony, the
awful and. inevitable consequences?
Have We thocht O. the horror o. sitting
doom opposite each ither at the break
fast table mornin' after mornin' for
the rest o your lives togither? Have
We thocht O. the stunning responsible
ties of the married state?"
Lee was beginning to grow alarmed,
but of sudden he discerned a twinkle
in the worthy fathers eyes. And sud-
denly Father McGrath smote Lee vio-
lently upon the back.
"Tll do it. mon!' he shouted. "Ill
do it. IT'S the one practical joke that
is permeesible to a meenister. be-
lieve in matreemony. TITS the grand
est O. the Interpretations of Our Lord
on airth Mony's the time I've hummed
and hawed and pretended ma to be
willin' when a young pairs come to
me to marry them, he thinking he's got
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and she proud and happy wi her mon,
but by ma means quite all that his
fond imageenation pictures her.
"And I've laughed in my sleeve and
thOcht, 'Ha, ha, We scullions, it's the
trap ye're asking me to spring on We,
and I'm going to shut 1t fast And so
I've married them. And it'll no be so
VARY long, mark We, before they're
coming to me WI their grievances.
200, Father, my wife does this and
wilma do that, and she wilma obey nor
honor me, as she's sworn to do, and
I'm no sure she loves me- And it's
90, Father, my mons got temper
like the dell hisself, and the jealousy
o. the grand Turk
"Then I speak to them vera soft.
my dear mon, and my dear wumman'
I say, 'ye're bath caught fast, and
what's done Gamma be undone. 'Tis
what matreemony's for, to help mon
and a wumman to eescipline-their
natures. 'Tis grand deespensation,
is matreemony. And, If yell bath re-
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We might call touch of unction-I
hesitated before admitting We to its
privileges, for weel I saw that We
were twa ill-assorted natures 'Naeth-
ing O. the SORT 7 they burst out indig-
nantly. And WI that they go off, arm
in arm together"
Il hope you haven't Miss Pelly and
myself in mind, Father" said Lee,
laughing. I'm willing to step into
your trap tomorrow, and I'm more
willing to step into it this minute
Father McGrath looked at them
quizzically. "Weel, we'll just say the
day after tomorrow, Anderson" he
said. For We ken, Anderson, wum-
man wants leetle time to picture her
self bride in her minds eye before
she becomes one"