Married in a Tree.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 337, 26 January 1889, Page 5

Married in a Tree.

A despatch from Norwich, Connecticut, says that Miss Miranda Ellsworth and Jeremiah Simpson, a couple engaged to be married, quarrelled while attending a dance in Elisha Crandall's farmhouse recently. During; the night the Rev. Mr Jay, the circuit minister, arrived, and, in order to enliven the proceedings, took off his coat and played a fiddle for the dancers. About four o'clock in the morning tho company dispersed, and the Rev. Mr Jay, who had noticed the quai'rel between the couple, determined to walk home with them in order to effect a reconciliation. While they were passing a field a ferocious Texan steer charged upon them. Simpson was the fii st to see the beast, and took refuge in a tree near by, closely followed by Miss Miranda and the minister. The latter gave the young lady a hoist into a second tree and himself climbed a third. They remained in this predicament for half an hour, when the couple, badly frightened at the fierce actions of the animal, and fearing death, asked the minister to mai*ry them. Accordingly Mr Jay read the marriage ceremony from his impromptu pulpit in the tree, while the couple with great difficulty joined hands from their unpleasant positions. A farmer's waggon passed by soon, and the three descended and went home.