Show BILL NYE AS A JUSTICE jan account of a remarkable marruf ceremony in a wild country I 1 forgot to say that the office of of the peace was not a salaried one but dependent upon fees the county furnishing only the copy of the revised statutes and a woolsack slightly and prematurely laid so while I 1 was called judge kye and frequently mentioned in the papers arith great consideration I 1 was out of coal about half the time and once codd not mail my letters for tareo weeks because I 1 did not have the necessary postage friends in the eastern states may possibly recall the time chec my corre from some unknown cache seemed to flag that waa the time of course I 1 could have borrowed the money but I 1 had and still have a foolish forroi of borrowing money I 1 did no s mind running an account but I 1 hated to bor row the first business that I 1 had was marriage ceremony I 1 met the ghroom on the street he asked me if I 1 could many people I 1 said that I 1 could to a limited extent ho said that he wanted to get married I 1 asked him to secure the victim and I 1 would get the other ingredients he then wished to know where my office was it occurred to me at that moment that there was no fire in the batove also no coal also that the west half of the stove had fallen in during the night so I 1 aard that I 1 marry them at their home he maintained maintain bd that his home was over eighty miles away and that it would consume too much time to go there where are yon stopping at I 1 inquired using the pike county style of syntax in order to show that I 1 was one of the people well we met here she come in on the last chance stage and tm camped up in canyon not fur from seedier crick we can go out there I 1 reckon I 1 did not mind the ride so I 1 locked my office secured a hook of forms and meeting the young people at the livery stable went them and married them in a rambling desultory sort of way the bride wad a peri from owl creek wearing moccasins of the pliocene age the rich castilian blood of the cavo dwellers mantled in her cheek along with the navy blue blood of connecticut on her fathers side her hair was like the wing of a raven and she wore a tiara of clam shells about her beetling brow her bracelet was a costly string of front teeth selected from the early settlers at the foot of independence mountain with the shrewdness of a yankee and the hauteur of the savage she combined the grotesque grammar of pike county aud the charming of the cow puncher she was called beautiful snow but I 1 think it was mostly in a spirit of banter she ans also no longer young I 1 asked her with an air of bad enago if she remembered pizarro but she replied that she vas away from home when he came through the cave dwellers were a serious people their plumbing was very poor indeed so also were their jokes her features rather classic however and I 1 wax about to say clean cut but on more ma anre thought I 1 will not say that her nose was bright and piercing it resembled the breastbone of a sandhill crane the groom was a man of great courage and held human life at a very low figure that is why he married beautiful snow without any flinching also why I 1 have refrained from mentioning his name also why I 1 kissed the bride did not yearn to kiss her there were others who had claims on me hut I 1 did not wish to give needless pain to the groom and so 1 did it he had no money but said that ho had a saddle which if I 1 could use I 1 was welcome to I 1 did not have anything to put the saddle on at home but rather than return empty handed I 1 took it bill nye is |