HOAXING- A CLERGYMAN.

Inangahua Times, Volume II, Issue II, 21 July 1880, Page 2

HOAXING- A CLERGYMAN.

A young couple enger to be joined together in the bonds of holy matrix mony, called lately upon a clergyman at Boston, in Massachusetts and requested him to lose no time in performing the ceremony. The reverend gentleman promptly acceded to tbeir wishes and tbe knot was duly tied. The usu^l fee given to clergymen for such a service is five dollars, and upon this occision the happy bridegroom pulled out a fifty«clbllar bill, and re* ce^ved back forty-five dollars, or nine pounds in change. Away went the newly-wedded pair and away went the oergyman to his home, but on arrivj ng there he discovered, to his dismay, that the fifty-doliar note was a counterfeit. Subsequendy inquiries led him to suspect that " the happy couple '* themselves were counterfeits. It recurred to his memory that the pre« tended bride never looked him in the face while the ceremony wns being performed, and thus the melancholy conclusion was forced upon him that the pair were not male and female, as they seemed to be, but a couple of joung scamp*, of whom one had dressed himself in a bride's apparel.