A Kentucky Romance.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 1466, 28 September 1885, Page 4

A Kentucky Romance.

fn a certain part of our country there lived a family m which there are two brothers just entering upon tlie prime of youthful manhood. A short distance from them— in fret, m the same neighbourhood — tlipro lives another family m which their are two .sisters, also m prime of maidenhood — beautiful, fascinating, and attractive. These )oung people, being near neighbors and coming m contact with each other often, almost naturally, it would seem, fell m love with each other, the elder brother wilh one of the sisters, an<l the younger with the other. All went smoothly for a time, a' d these young people enjoyed themselves and dreamed bright dreads of the future, and.no doubt m imayination constructed fuhy; palaces of love, and garden?, like Prtrod'se, which should be only filled wilh beautiful flowers and f nits of hanpiness and unalloyed enjoyment. Then, as a matter of course, the question of marrying 1 arose, which must he referred to the parent of Ihe young ladies for approval. The eldest In other had no di^enlty m obtaining their consent to his marrying the young lady, and the wedding-day was fixed upon. Then the young brother wen*, to the parents and made known his attachment for the other sister, and thpir niut'ial desire to " splice and travel the road of life together." "But the old folks were decidedly nnpnse'l to having mote than one of their girls marry into " that family," and plainly informed him that if he wanted a wife, he must go elspwhern to set her, intimating that he should desist pavina further attention to the young lady m question. But the young man was determined that if his brother married one ot the girls he would marry the other. So he went to the young " lady of his love," and told her the circnm stances of the situation, and desired her, if she loved him, to prove her love by run nine; off with him. To this she agreed, and the night was fixed upon whpn they should .carry out the •.mutual agreement. But now comes the strongest part of the «tory. The two young ladiofr resembled each other very much m looks, voice, &c, and by Rome ' utrange frealc, when the night of elopement came and the yonnsr man went to the appointed place of meeting, he found a woman there whom he thought wa< the right one, but she was ro L . Unconscious of this, however, he took her to the place where the nrirnage ceremony was to he performed before he found ont that be was with the wrong girl Most wonderful to relate, he thought , that after he had gone to nil this trouble, he would get married any way, so he asked her if she would have him, and she. m order lo carr? out the joke, paid she would, and they were married then and there. It appears that she had overheard him making arrangements to elepe with her sisteiy and, knowing the place of meeting, determined to go there ahead of her and thus fool the young man, for whom she entertained a secret liking, although she was engaged to be married to his In-other. Our infVvmant also states that after they had lived together for some time, the elder brother determining to make the meat of tho situation, took unto himself the o*her s'sfer. — Fal mouth, (TCy) TwlepenJent.