A COWGATE WEDDING.

Globe, Volume IV, Issue 442, 13 November 1875, Page 3

A COWGATE WEDDING.

For some time past the inhabitants of the Cowgate have been fully alive to the approaching marriage of two notable characters, who have each attained the ago of about threescore and ten, and on Myriday night, between six and seven o’clock, when the happy event was about to come oil', the residents of the neighbourhood celebrated the occasion in rather a peculiar fashion. The bride, it appears, had been three times, previously wedded, but this is the first matrimonial adventure for the bridegroom. As the houv approached for the marriage, the uninvited (it may have been the envious, for it is reported that the bride had what is known in her circle as a “well-lined stocking”) assembled in large numbers. After a good deal of horse-play had been indulged in, the effigies oi the bride and bridegroom were produced, hanged, and burned in front 'of the house ’where the happy pair were housed, The proceedings were watched with groat amusement by a crowd in the Cowgate, and also by several hundreds who had congregated on George IY. Bridge, The police did not think it worth while to interfere until after the extinction of the effigies, i when the crowd was dispersed as speedily as possible, and the aged innocents were for the remainder of the evening allowed to rest in peace. On the occasion of the bride’s two previous marriages, similar proceedings took place.