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Show A tt&d Bo gt mints. Here is a 6tory told by a city curate, to whom the experience happened on the occasion of his first wedding. The reotor had told him to be careful to fill up the register with the correct ages of the bride and bridegroom. The ceremony cere-mony having been gone through, the happy couple, who were of mature age, adjourned to the vestry to sign the register. reg-ister. The bridegroom, when sked his age, gave it at onoe as 60, but the bride, with the modesty natural to the sex, merely said she was of full age, while when remonstrated with she pertly told the curate that it was not the first time 6he had gone through the ceremony, and she meant to insist upon her rights. Finally, as the bride remained ob durate, the bridegroom, thinking to put matters straight, told the curate the age. Far from serving as the oil on the waters, wa-ters, this only made matters worse, for the bride flew into a passion and insisted insist-ed upon the bridegroom telling her how he knew her age. s "I looked at your family Bible, my dear, " was the quiet rejoinder. "And what right had you, pray, to take. such a liberty before we were married?" mar-ried?" And the two, who had oome to church as affectionate as a pair of turtledoves, turtle-doves, left in a pet. The curate who was responsible is still wondering what was the final upshot of this unfortunate Incident London Tit-Bits. |