Show I 1 I 1 1 1 1 w l JL carriage M ar I 1 ribe in in I 1 ia 60 1 the burlington hawkeye hawk Raw keye eye has the following marriage scene in in indiana contributed to its columns by a co correspondent r respondent esponde nt who is a native hoosier I 1 was 9 towheaded tow headed brat of some eight or ten years old when the incident I 1 am about to relate took place but I 1 remember all the particulars as well as if it occurred yesterday you see it was about dinner time one day in the fall of the year when the ola man being engaged in laying in in a su supply I 1 Y of wooi woodton wood for tor the winter drove up his ox team with g a pretty wild load of fuel just then a young and tin unsophisticated 0 O h couple entered the village hand in hand ban d i inquired for far the squire and were duly directed to to the aliouse bouse the youth I 1 was barefooted and wore a coarse but clean tow linen shirt and pants and rough straw hat of home hoige manufacture his fair companion was dressed ya in a blue cotton frock pink cotton apron fine bonnet ad aad coarse brogan shoes without stockings these were their wedding dresses and their severe simplicity simpli cily and the thorough independence they nian if ested made an impression upon my mind that will never be effaced we have come to get married said the young man to this old lady my mother who was properly props prop fly etly busy amorist the cots and kettles thais very good business I 1 said she braill g gut graciously though yu you a appear pear to be very y you 9 but theres the squire just trove drove up hell splice i ou u in less than no lime so out she bolted to give the fortunate fun function ry due notice nolice of the important business in hand I 1 1 I cant stop till I 1 unload this wood said the dd d man I 1 fell ell them to come out here 1 0 out u t they went j the old wan roan was on the top of the cart and eairy time he be hidrew off a stick he askel asked a question on before lie was wa fairly unloaded lie had the youths vt abe story having a ascertained the names ages anlas and aps dences of t the ibe how he had known flie young woman if lie really loved her and was willing villing wile vile E ln to to labor abor honestly to promote her happiness etc the h young stranger sti anger gave simple and satisfactory answers arwe s to all the questions propounded pounded r in I 1 the lie meantime the old alagy lady 2 perfectly understanding I 1 ng dads way wa of doing lings ti had ad sent out to say to the people eople eliat that a wedding was coming off at the house and dp bythe by the time the wood was unloaded quite a crowd had bad collected to witness the ceremony the old fellow having picked out the last stick stood up in the cart and commenced the performance jest jine hands said he be to the young couple it was done accordingly 1 I am satisfied with both of ye he be continued youve a perfect right to get married mai ried 7 and he united ero em in in short order As the rafters on this house are dined to together grether so I 1 jine you you are man and wife salute your bride don dont it charge you any anything lhing for t the h e operation whoa 1 haw aw buck g get et agori along bright 1 I and w wah ia an eloquent flourish of his bis long stick he be sorted sr ad for another load of wood leaving the newly weded od pair amid the villagers kissing each other with willi a very distinct and bartic particular ax evidence of satisfaction cacti that was a wedding worth having continued major Ou desly 1 I knew the couple afterward and know them yet for they are both living in a high 5 stale tai e of p asperity rity and I 1 know their children after them too loo and mighty fine children they are for one on of them is at this ve very ry time governor of the state of indiana |