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gether as they were; of wtat use, then, could a mere form be? 

 Suppose they would thereby escape scandal, were they not bound 

 to take up the cross, and live according to the rules of the religion 

 they professed? The Governor's logic was powerless. He was in 

 the neighborhood of John one day, and meeting with him, accepted 

 an invitation to dine with him. Conversation, as usual, turned upon 

 the subject. 



" Now John," said the Governor, after a long discussion of the 

 point, "why will you not marry Sarah? Have not you taken her 

 to be your lawful wife?" 



"Yes," replied John, "but my own conscience will not permit me 

 to marry her in the form of the world's people." 



"Very well, but you love her ?" 



"Yes." 



" And respect her ?" 

 • "Yes." 



" And cherish her, as bone of your bone, and flesh of your flesh?" 



"Yes certainly I do." 



"And you love, obey, respect and cherish him?" he continued, to 

 Sarah. 



"Certainly I do." 



"Then," said the Grovernor, rising, "by the laws of God and the 

 Commonwealth of Connecticut, I pronounce you to be husband and 

 wife !" 



The ravings and rage of John and Sarah were of no avail ; the 

 knot was tied by the highest authority in the State. 



The Age of a Horse. — A man who wanted to buy a horse asked 

 a friend how to tell a horse's age. 



" By his teeth," was the reply. 



The next day the man went to a horse dealer, who showed a splen- 

 did black horse. The horse-hunter opened the animal's mouth, gave 

 one glance, and turned on his heel. 



"I don't want him," said he; "he's thirty-two years old." 



He had counted the teeth. 



