A KENTUCKY ROMANCE.

Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2048, 22 August 1885, Page 4

A KENTUCKY ROMANCE.

Iv a cci tain p.nt of oiu eountiy there lived a family in winch theie air two biothtus just entering u()on the prime <»f jouthful manhood. A short distance fioin tluiii— in laet, in the same neiglihoui hood -theiuli\cs>auothei family in wliuh theieaic two sisteis, aNo in tlie piimcuf in U'lt ii'iood — beautiful, fascinating, .md .ittiachiu. These >onng piople, In in;; noar neighbois, and turning in LDiif.n t witln ach othi i often, almost natui.illy, it uouhl beein, fell in love with each ollri, the elder biothu with one of tin histiM, .ml tl' jonngor with the other. All wint smoothly for a time, and tin so young people miojid tin in mixes and dieunul hi ijjht dit ams of tin f u bin t*, and no donlit in nn lgm ition eon stiucted fany palausof loxe, and gmdenb, like I'aiadisc, which should he onlj filled with ljeautitul flowcis and fiuits of happi ness And unalloyed enjoyment. Then, as a matter of course, the question of marry ing arose, which must he lefeiied to the parents of the young ladies for apptoval. The eldest brothei had no difhculty in obtaining their consent to his manying the young lady, and the wedding day was fixed upon. Then the young brother wont to the parents and made known his attachment foi the othei sister, and their mutual desire to " l splice and travel the road of life togethei. ' But the old folks were decidedly opposed to having moic than one of their git Is man) into "that family," and plainly informed him that if he wanted a wife he must go elsewhere to get her, intimating that he should desist paying further attention to the young lady in question. But the young man was determined that if his brother mm ried one of the girls he would many the othei . So he went to the young " lady of his lo\e," and told her the circumstances of the situation, and deshed her, if she loved him, to pro\e her lo\e by lunnmg o'A with him. To this she agreed, and the night was fi\ed upon when they should cany out the.mutual agiecment But now conies the strangest part of the story. The two young ladies resembled each oilier very much in looks, voice, ke , and by some strange fieak, when the night of elopement came anil the young man went to the appointed place of meeting, he found a woman there whom he thought was the light one, but she was not. Unconscious of thio, howeser, he took her to the place where the marriage ceremony was to be peifoimed before he found out that he was with the wrong gill. Most wonderful to relate, he thought that aftei he had gone to all this trouble, he would get man led any way, so he asked her if she would ha\e him, and she, in order to cany out the joke, said she would, and they weie mamed then and there. It appeals that she had oxerheard him making ariangements to elope with her sister, and, knowing the place of meeting, detei mined to go theie ahead of her and thus fool the young man, for w horn she entcitained a scciet liking, although --he was engaged to he be inai lied to his bi othei. Our informant albo states that aftt r tiny had lived toget'i'-r for some time, the elder brother dituinimng to make the most of the Mtuation, took unto himself the other sibtcr. — Falmoiith (K>) Independent.