Warning to " Best Men " at Weddings.
There was a wedding near Christchurch the other day (says the Observer). The groom was middle-aged, hardfeatured, and bald. The ' best man ' was young, blonde moustache, blue eyed, and smiling. When the knot was tied, and it only remained for the ' groom ' to kiss the bride, he seemed unaware of what was expected of him, and failed to come up to time, whereupon the best man chipped in, and taking the blushing young bride to his mainly bosom, imprinted a chaste salute on her ruby lips. The elderly and baldheaded groom was for a moment staggered. Then 1 recovering himself, he stepped forward and planted a . welldirected blow between the eyes of the presurnptious "best man." The curtain fell on a tableau consisting of a weeping bride, with her sisters, cousins, and aiints holding on to the coat tails of the infuriated Benedict, and trying to soothe his angry passions with soft words.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 75, 25 September 1895, Page 2
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159Warning to " Best Men " at Weddings. Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 75, 25 September 1895, Page 2
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