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Show THE WRONG HOUSE.-Not long since a couple were married at North Orange, Mass. The bride's home was in Royalston, nine miles distant; but she had many friends in North Orange, and the brass band took a barge and went out upon the evening of the wedding day to serenade the happy pair. It was not late when they arrived at the home in Royalston, but darkness shrouded the house, and seeing a cottage brightly lighted a little further on, they concluded it must be the place they were in search of; so they approached noiselessly, in order to surprise the happy pair, having formed in front of the house, struck up one of their most gay and festive airs. At the close, a gentleman appeared at the door and asked for the leader. Visions of ice-creams, pies and cake, began to rise before them; but, instead, there was a break for the barge, when the leader rushed back and exclaimed, in a stage whisper, "Good thunder, boys! get out of this, quick! We are serenading a corpse!"-Portland Transcript. |