A Lively Termination to a Wedding.

Manawatu Herald, 14 September 1895, Page 3

A Lively Termination to a Wedding.

The bride was young, and very handsome in her wedding finery ; the groom was a middle-aged, stern browed, practical, hard fisted individual, with a squint and a large area of baldness. The best man, was young and somewhat fascinating, with a bold, blue eye, and a drooping, straw coloured moustache. When the ceremony was through, and it only remained for the bridegroom to kiss the bride, the former seemed un-. aware of what was expected of him, an& failed to come up to time, where* upon the best man promptly stepped in,, took the blushing bride to bis shirt front, and planted a hard and fast kiss just where it would do most good. The elderly, ugly groom was flabbergasted fora moment. Then he said : " Well, I'm ," and, drawing off, landed the best man right on the bridge of his impeiious Roman nose, fetching him down With the usual dull sickening thud, and giving him two lovely black eyes. The curtain fell on the tableaux— the clergyman and the bride's brother and father holding back the infuriated bridegroom, and trying to soothe him with soft woids j bride in a picturesque fit on the bosom ot her mother, and two kind friends leading out the blind and battered best man.