A BASHFUL BRIDEGROOM
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He was a clerk in a hardware store, and she was a chambermaid in a hotel. When they came to the parsonage one afternoon to be married, they were very kindly received. The minister’s wife took the bride upstairs to take off her things, and the minister took the groom into the parlor.
The groom was very nervous—and suddenly asked the minister whether he couldn’t “marry him while the bride was upstairs, and then marry her when she came down?” But the minister assured him that it was necessary that the bride should be present, and that they should both be married at the same time. And so they were married.
Two hours later, while making a call at the hotel, he found the bride at her work, and when he asked her how that was, and whether her husband had also gone back to his work at the store, she replied:
“Oh, bless you, no, sir; he’s gone off on his honeymoon!”