astical manner,
called the parties up, and put them through their catechism. The
corporal answered with military precision and dignity, and Serlizer,
glancing at his martial magnificence, was so proud of the bridegroom
that she felt equal to answering a bench of bishops. Mrs. Newcome, who
had given her daughter away, remarked, as all the bridal party retired
from the vestry to receive their friends' congratulations, that the
constable, for a widower, was a very proper man, and Serlizer might have
done much worse. To his best man, Mr. Terry, the corporal said:
"Sergeant-major, I have got my guard. A prisoner may slip from me,
Sergeant-major, but when that strapping woman puts her arms round him,
he'll be as helpless as a child. I shall apply to the Council for an
increase of pay." Soon afterwards, Maguffin got a holiday, went to
Dromore, where Miss Tolliver was sojourning with Mrs. Thomas, took that
lady to Collingwood, the coloured Baptist preacher of which united them,
and came home triumphantly in the stage with his bride. They received a
great ovation in the kitchen, and, Mr. Terry having joined the party,
played the geographical game till midnight, as a sober, improving, and
semi-religious way of celebrating the event. Mr. Maguffin remarked that
the Baktis preacher had promised, out of the two-dollar fee, to insert a
notice of the marriage in a leading paper, adding the words, "No Cards,"
but, said Tobias, "he warn't nebber moah leff in all hees life, 'kase
here's the keerds and heaps on 'em. Yah! yah! yah!"

The colonel was getting anxious to start for the Mississippi, and
begged his deceased wife's sister to confer with her daughter, and name
the day. The dominie was also consulted, and, seeing it was vain to hope
for his friend's restoration to the extent of performing groomsman's
duty, he acquiesced in whatever decision should be reached. Mr. Douglas
took Coristine's place, and Miss Graves that of Miss Carmichael, and,
for both of them, the Edinburgh lawyer ordered from the city handsome
wedding presents to bestow upon the two couples, a little proof of
generosity gratifying to the lady whom he now regularly called Marion.
The said Marion had definitely resigned her situation with Messrs.
Tylor, Woodruff, and White. On Thursday morning, St. Cuthbert's in the
Fields was a scene of wonder to the assembled rustics, with flowers and
favours and lighted candles. Miss Du Plessis, stately and lace bedight,
was led in b