“WAITING AT THE CHURCH.”

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 1956, 25 March 1919, Page 1

“WAITING AT THE CHURCH.”

A TRUSTING “BRIDEGROOM,” LOSES A “BRIDE” AND £2. The slory is being’ told in minsterton of n prospective bridegroom who was left “waiting at the elmreh” one day last week. The bridegroom-to-be, had bceome acquainted with a “buxom lassie” not a thousand miles from the Taueru. They decided Umt life without each other would be one long blank, and they therefore resolved to go through that service -by which they would take each other “for belter or for worse.” Reaching Masterton the pair discussed (he question of their marriage, and the “bride” lamented the fact that the hurried preparations which were being made had not allowed her to provide a suitable trousseau. She requested a loan of a pound or (wo in order to make herself presentable before the official who was to make them one. 'The nervous “bridegroom” thereupon handed (lie blushing “bride” £2 with a request to meet him at the “door of'the church” after lie had secured certain necessary papers from the Registrar of Alas! As Bruns has it ; “The best laid schemes o' mice an’ men Gang af 1 agley, And lea’e us nought but grief an’ pain Eor promised joy! The bridegroom-to-be returned to keep ids uppondrvnt bid the “blushing bride" wa.s missing. Humming to himself (he well-known hues, “There was I, waiting at Om elmreh,” the . --I': g “bride-gr run” went in search of bis “bride.” Koine hours later he discovered that the. lady fair had lefi for Wellington in the afternoon by train, taking with her all his future hopes and Ids £2. But the “bridegroom” was something of a philosopher, and reiiinied to the country in the even-

ing, thankful for having escaped with the loss of ,t‘2 only.