Page:Orange Grove.djvu/114

 forty or the like, but real green, they didn't know nothin' about tyin' the knot."

"So when the minister asked the woman if she would promise to love, honor and obey, she flew into a teapot and out at the nose; 'did you 'spose,' says she, 'that I was so sheepish as to come here for that? No! I come here to be married, an' I'll be bound if I'll ever promise to obey any man. No! that's what I won't, I'll live an old maid and turn into ashes an' fly out o' the top of the chimney fust!

An I'll be bound if you shan't have the chance afore I'll marry ye, Sal,' says the man an' took his hat and walked off, leavin' the astonished parson to mourn over the awful depravity of human natur', instead of regalm' himself on the marriage fee."

"Not much love there, but then there's no truth in it; you made it up."

"You little innocent fool, you don't 'spose every body marries for love do you?"

"They ought to."

"Did you know I was married once?"

"No! how did that happen, and what became of your husband?"

"What become of him?. I don' know. He died and I never troubled myself to know what 'come on him afterwards. I thought 'twould be a sort o' pretty notion to have somebody to wait upon me, bring in wood an' chips and draw a pail o' water, but what do you think, if I didn't have it all to do and take care o' him into the bargain. That's the way, all honey aforehand, sour grapes afterwards."