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in waiting to receive him; when I am sure had had to shake hands with a hundred persons 'Courage' said they with a smirking smile. We now formed ourselves in one room of the log House, the Minister, standing appart the door the bridle party had to enter. In a few minutes, there was a silence full of expectation - - - - a rustling was heard in the passage, & then the bridegroom with the bride under his arm supported by their necessary attendants. The bridegroom put a pretty good face upon this his present 'difficulty'; the bride with considerable prettentions to prettyness droopingly handing on her to-be husbands arm, occasionally taken a peep up at the company.

 The Minister without any preamble or ceremony, commenced the marriage service extempore.  The "I wills" were not audibly pronounced; the ceremony of the Ring was not introduced, & from the moment the

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