PLATFORM COMEDY.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1022, 12 November 1912, Page 4

PLATFORM COMEDY.

RIVAL, ROVERS WRESTLE WITH A GIRL'S LUGGAGE.

A wedding which took place in St. Patrick’s Catholic Church, Dungiven, Co. Derry, was the sequel to an amusing romance. The bride is a girl who returned recently from America to visit her old home at Dungiven, She started back on Saturday, and among the friends who went to see her off at the station were two young men, one whom she only met a week before, and one whom she had known for six weeks. The train was at the platform when the friend of a week approached the girl and

urged her to remain behind and marry him. She hesitated, he redoubled his entreaties, and, to kettle the matter, dragged her boxes from the guard’s van. The other youth then intervened. He appealed to the girl to go to America as she intended, and said he would follow her in a month’s time and marry her. He followed th : s up by placing her boxes in the van. . The other lover took them out again, and the two wrestled with the luggage, to the intense amusement of the spectators on the platform, until the girl succumbed to the importunities of the man who wanted her to remain. Hauling out the boxes from the train for the last time, the victorious lover carried off the girl and made arrangements at once to marry her.