SHE WAS PREPARED.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 347, 2 March 1889, Page 8

SHE WAS PREPARED.

A minister's wife, who is not so spriousminded at nil times as her husband is, tells some laughable stories relating to marriage ceremonies which her husband performed while they were living in a remote country disiiict. The minister al\va3's felt it to be his duty to give each young couple a bit of serious advice before he performed the marriage ceremony, and for this purpose he usually took them aside, one at a time, and talked very soberly to c: 3 .0h of them regarding the step they were to take and the new responsibilities they were to assume. One day he talked in his most earnest manner for several minutes to a young woman who had come to be married to a bright-looking j^onng man. "And now," he said, in closing, **I hope you fully realise the extreme importance of the step you are taking, and that you a^e prepared for it.'' " Prepared ?" she said, innocently, "well if I ain't prepared I don't know who is. ]'ye got four common quilts* and two nice ones, and two brand new feather-beds, ten Fheets and six pair of pillowslips, four all-linen table-cloths, a dozen spoons, and a good eix-qmirt kettle. If I ain't piepared, no girl in this country ever was ?"