MARRIAGE UNDER DIFFICULTIES.

Temuka Leader, Issue 382, 3 May 1881, Page 2

MARRIAGE UNDER DIFFICULTIES.

An American paper says that a fewweeks ago, up on the Colorado, a coupla bent on marriage procured a license and 6et out with one or two friends to look: up a parson. They reached the river,, but alas ! the would-be bride could not. cross. Th«y were in a pickle. The only parson was several, weary miles just across the river, while visions of irate parents with doubled-barrelled shotguns.

procession through the minds of the two. lovers. The weather was cold, the tiver was up, and what could they do?One of the escort suggested that he would swim the river and see, if possible, the parson, who undoubtedly would fir up a plan to tie the nuptial knot. He did so, found the preacher and soon had him down on the river banV. The water was cold and deep and he refused point blank to cross over, to the very great distress of the young couple on the other side. Necessity is not the only mother of invention but is the mother of expedients. The parson marry the couple across the river, anjj they joined hands, and took their slaisjjl near the water's edge, while the preacher on the opposite bank, iri stentorian voice, pronounced the marriage service and declared them man and wife.