A PECULIAR ADVENTURE.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9081, 22 February 1908, Page 3

A PECULIAR ADVENTURE.

STRANGE STORY FROM FRANCE. From Haute Savoie, Francs, comes a marvellous story of a bride’s adventure, for the exact veracity of which it is obviously impossible to vouch at this distance, but which is certainly worth repeating. It was, as the tale has it, in the village of Noveroy, Mdlle. Doche, the young woman in question., was married to M. Granger, a landowner dwelling at Novercy. After the nuptual ceremony the bridal party assembled for the usual feast at a friend’s house, the table being spread in a large room, situated just over a stable. There were as many as forty guests, and -what with their united weight and that of the substantial viands, the floor of the big chamber was put to a more severe strain than it could endure. The merriment was at its height, when suddenly an ominous sound, as of cracking, was heard, and a moment later®the floor had given way, and the whole party was struggling in the stable, into which the viands and drink had also fallen. Many ox the guests were badly bruised, and, as they rose to their Jeet, they Jisxturally looked round .to see what had become of the newly-married couple. The bridegroom was there in a very tumbled state, but otherwise little the worse for wear, ißut, as for the buxom bride, she was flying out of the stable at a rapid rate, bestriding a cow, of all animals.! The young woman, as is gravely related, had fallen from the upper room right on to the back of the cow, which, not being accustomed to snob treatment, and seared by the crash, had promptly broken loose, bearing the lady off on its back. Right away the cow bolted as fast as its legs would carry it, and the bride stuck on in truly sporting style, as to the manner born. Across the fields ran the cow, hotly pursued by the nimbler members of the party, and /then it entered a little copse, still with the bride on its back. How long was this Im*. and what would be the end of rkall. the pursuers anxiously asked. They had not much longer to wait for a reply. They had scarcely got iinto the copse, when they beheld the young woman suspended by her raven tresses to the branch of a tree, like another Absalom. It |took them some time to rescue her from her uncomfortable and dangerous position, but as soon as she was free she laughed gaily over the whole adventure, for which, as is carefully added, she was little the worse. As for the cow, it may he running still, for all that is said to the contrary.