LOVE'S TOTING DREAM.

Manawatu Times, Volume II, Issue 58, 9 May 1877, Page 2

LOVE'S TOTING DREAM.

The " Providence Journal '* . ; Tt&tiT'a. most romantic story of a marriage m the surf. Among the recent summer guests at Naf ragansett Pier hare been a wealthy resident of Baltimore, his blooming daughter, and a companion, whose office it was to stand Jguard over her young mistress, and intercept any letters she might send to a ; young gentleman at the South. Before a fortnight had elapsed a dainty little missive was m the Baltimore mail bag. ; . The gentle^ man packed his valise and ;set out for Bhode Island. The 'father was forbidden by H3 physician to" bathe m the surf, and his daughter's companion hated salt water, and usually sat on the rocks when her charge donned a bathing' suit. "While the happy girl, was m the water, her lover suddenly appeared before her, swimming like a duck, and proposed that they should be married the next day m the breakers. She said "Yes." The next noon, the lovers, a clergyman and two witnesses, formed & group m the surf, further than the others dared to go. The marriage ceremony had to be suspended- every few seconds on account of the breakers, and a laugh broke from the: lips of the girl when the clergyman gave full opportunity for the forbidding of banns. Everybody noticed how gay she was at dinner that day, and her father thought " She's forgotten that - Baltimore upstart already;" A few hours later he was undeceived- Then the tempest raged again, buta lawyer's cool counsel prevailed. The bridgeroom lingered a few days, and- then went back to Balti-, more, where next October the particu? lars of the comedy in the surf will reappear m the same characters m the drama of a Grand Wedding before the eyes of the world/ i; ,:.; : ' *.-