TIN-KETTLING AT A WEDDING

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XI, Issue 36, 8 February 1876, Page 2

TIN-KETTLING AT A WEDDING

j^There has lately beetri.a weddinar. in tig housetop of -jS! : Snyder" tot Coren\S^d;l.|and the laWikihs of that place: appear ro^|^elindulged-ou theVcfyctfsion in the nuisance commonly known as " tin-kettling." In the following issue of the Coromandel Mail "Suyder" thus dilates on the sensations aroused r by f this development ot juyenilo exu[berrihee :■-<■•>-- ♦ The wakeful /infant shall 'be soothed to slumber in its mother's arms, after drinking from the fountains of- life. The forsaken maiden, faithlessly deserted by her lover, Bhall find consolation in the reflection that there jure as good fish in the seas as ever came but of them. The- bankrupt tradesmep may hopo for a ; new star.t in business under a beneficent bankrupt law. The. dyspeptic have hopes while there is Pepsine in. the druggists shops rind tbe sick patient takes comfort in dosejs of homoeopathic globules. But what, consolation shall be offeied to the trembling girl who, it is not four hours biriee, when he who fills hor soul with love plighted his troth to her at the altar and plaoed the. golden ring upon the fourth delicate finger of the right lily-white hand. What comfort comes to her when she begins to bear the rattling of kerosene tins ; the whoops of wild boys? What answer can she make when a wild ragamuffin: puts his . mouth to the keyhole of the street and shouts fNow then, my beautiful aud fond brie, eomo out and show yourself.* How do her terrors increase as tbe ; noise from everything capable of producing a noise is brought into play. There is but a thin partition of wood and window between her and Bixly juvenile human, fiends, frantically dancing, hurrahing, soreamibg, gesticulating, and raying ar if desirous for the shedding ofbloo 1 , and of the tenr- • ing ot things to shreds. She sees tho bridegroom trying to suppress his passion till he can suppress it no more. She sees him rise, rush to the door, rush our, and hears him rush among the crowd; but with hnll ai and screams it disperses, and behold, in the twinkling of an eye, in the sounding of tbe trump, there is nothing in human shape to be seen in the whole-- length and breadth of the street. Then he returns flushed, and in a passion uses the word d Beveraltimes and drinks brandy. Thus does the trembling bride, before she has been; married a very few hours, learn that her husband, the love of her ■soul, can swear, drink brandy, nnd get in a confounded passion ; and all because rude boys aro beating empty kerosene tins with sticks and shank bones. What has : she, trembling, twittering, gentle little thing, to look forward to in the future? Will it ever come that he will rush at her; will he get into a passion should tho starching of his shirt not corae i out quite right? Wiirhe continue to drink? But hark I there are those blackguard boys once more surrounding tho front of tho house with their horrid kerosene tiuß and marrow boneß."