HOAXING A CLERGYMAN.
A young couple, eager to be joined together in the bonds of holy matrimony, called lately upon a clergyman at Boston, in Massachusetts, and requested him to lose no time in performing the cerempny. The reverend gentleman promptly acceded to their wishes, and the knot was duly tied. The usual fee given to clergymen for such a service is five dollars, and upon this occasion the happy bridegroom pulled out a fifty.dollar bill, and received back forty-five dollars, or nine pounds in change. Away went the newly wedded pair, and away went the clergyman to his home, bnt upon arriving there he dts* covered, to his dismay, that the . fifty, dollar bill was a counterfeit. Subse? quently, inquiries led him to suspect that " the happy couple " were also counter* feils. It recurred to his memory that the pretended b:ude never looked him in the face while the service was being per* formed, and, thus the melancholy conclusion had been forced upon him that the pair were not male and female, as they scorned to be, bat a couple of young scamps, of whom one had dressed himself in a bride's apparel.
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Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3553, 17 May 1880, Page 2
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194HOAXING A CLERGYMAN. Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3553, 17 May 1880, Page 2
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