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VGW(HU.771.174
14 Nov 1771:12 (1059)
Extract of a letter from Castlecary, in Scotland. On
Thursday last one Logan, who had been paying his addresses
to a woman of the name of Stirling, for two years past, at
length obtained her consent to marry him, in prosecution of
which the bride soon after set out for Falkirk to procure
provisions and other necessaries for the wedding, which she
immediately forwarded in great profusion, and next day, the
bride set off, attended by all her friends and neighbours,
to the number of fifty or more, who were invited to partake
of the bridal dinner; but on their near approach the
bridegroom suddenly altered his mind, slipped out at a back
door, and ran off into the adjacent woods. However, the
bride was no way discouraged at this sudden and unexpected
disappointment, but immediately dispatched some of her
friends to the woods in quest of the bridegroom, and in the
mean time ordered the musick to play up, Because He Was a
Bonny Lad, I Bade Him Ay Come Back Again, and entertained
the company with much good humour and pleasantry. Finding,
on the return of her friends, that the bridegroom could no
where be found, she concluded the entertainment with
uncommon spirit, by leading down a country dance, to the
tune of I Lost My Love, and I Carena'. The company were so
taken with the bride's surprising gaiety, on this trying
occasion, that they raised a handsome subscription for her,
which perhaps may induce the bridegroom to return from his
lurking holes."
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