Show A GROOMS predicament ho II 11 escaped deca ilia 1118 cifes pious fiona uncle was very def deaf A bride tells tella of a difficult moment of her recent wedding trip A few days of it were spent with an uncle of hers very deaf and very pious when they sat down to dinner on the night of their arrival with a considerable sid erable company of relatives assembled to do them honor the uncle exploded a bomb shell by asking the groom to say grace much inch embarrassed as lie he was unaccustomed cus tomed to offic officiating lating in this way he leaned forward murmuring a request tobe to be excused whereupon the uncle watching him only waited until his lips lipa stopped moving to utter a sonorous amen in response it is hardly necessary to add that not only did the blessing for that meal go unsaid but also that the effort of everybody except the uncle to keep from laug laughing bing quite took away the a ap P Ilet ites for the first course |