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n CANNOT without pain recolleE a
4 icene which pafed before my eyes
about a year ago. As | was returning
from Zurich to Berne, fell in at a
handfome village, three leagues from
the latter pl ,e, with rural Wedding,
which was at once a picture Of the man
ners and PROPERTY Of the country. 1t
was cutom among the Inhabitants
who were in good circumstances to
give wedding feaf at fome difance
from home, at oneof thofe better kind
OF inns which are to he met with in
many villages. The bride and BRIDE
groom with their relations and friends
arrived in two and twenty carriages,
and as full as they could hold. After
the marriage ceremony the company
returned from the church to the inn
as they came near, the band Of mufc
belonging to the regiment.of militia, in
which the bridegroom happened 10 be
non-Commi0ioned officer, played Ge-
yeral flow and folem airs. 1wenty-
feven couples fled off in order and f.
lence, their couEtenances and deport-
ment, indicating reflection. The bride
was not more than four and twenty
years old. She was ornamented With
lace, nofegay, and much more by
her beauty; her clothes were made
ola frper6ne black ferge, and il fahion
Of TIE country her hair hung plated
to ber heels the height and eafe Of
her perlon, the deIicacy Of her features
and the bloom Of her complexion dif
tinguiihed her in the midlt Of her com
panions; ihe was the picture Of model
ty. The Bridegroom droAed In his re-
gimentals (according 10 rule fcrupu-
louAy 0bferyed) was not inferior to lis
bride in Perlonal endowmcnts, in youth
and modefy. The whole party were
much alike in point of APPEARANCE /;
they had no Guperhuous or affected or
naments, all was rich without being
taudry.


The mirth Of the day was tempered
by fenfe Of religion, and the party did
not fotget at the inn the ceremony
which had been performed at church,
where folemn engagement had been
contracted in the preience Of tie deity.
Dances preceded the rspaG which was
fumpmous and abundant the frit
toaf was to tie fafe, tie next to the
prief who married the young couple,
and Whole children were placed by the
bride and bridegroom. They lat at
table a confderable time, from which
they rofe for the ball but throughout
decent gaiety, order and iobriety pre-
vailed.


The happy pair did not return home
to their village for two days. The ex-
penle of the inn had been preyiouly
agreed upon at 60 LoAJ d'ors and The
pay of the muGic, aims and pretents
railed the FUN 10 twenty-five. On OK
preGingmy yattonifhment at this expcnfe,
the inn-keeper put an end 10 il by In
forming me, that the young woman
was an heirefS with $4,000 fwif5 livres
(ncar 10000 ( ferling) and her huf-
band a farmer and linen draper, pofef-
fed of fortune at leat equal to hers.