Eureka Reporter | 1904-11-25 | Page 4 | Joker and the Bride

joker and the bride at one of the recent weddings the bride carried a prayer book marked to open at the marriage service and from which ale was to read the re the service the practical joker v as present of course for there was never a bedding at which the practical joker was not just before the ceremony he slipped the tride s prayer book into his pock et and lert arother in its place which he had borrowed tor the occasion when the bride it at the altar she was a bit surprised and for a mo ment was lost in wonder as to had happened ahen she caught on bit her 1 ps to keep back a smile and bent her head over the book with no evidence of anything wrong the practical joker had substituted a book printed in german and the tride could read only english nevertheless she had studied the ceremony carefully and made the re at the proper time and in the words set down in the ritual utica observer