52 THE TIM BUNKER PAPERS. 



Now, I shall not tell you of the wedding ceremony, 

 which came off in the crowded church at eleven, A. M.; 

 of the entertainment at Esquire Bunker s, got up, I sus 

 pect, as much for your benefit as for his daughter s ; of 

 the notabilities of Hookertown there assembled ; of the 

 agreeable things there said and done, touching agricul 

 ture, and culture of other kinds ; of the dance got up by 

 a few of the young folks very slyly, on a green patch of 

 turf in the garden an affair that was not laid down in the 

 programme; and of divers other matters that would be 

 appropriate to a work of fiction. 



Suffice it to say, that the whole thing went off in the 

 happiest manner, and the jollification of to-day, the firing 

 of cannon and the snapping of fire-crackers, the shouting of 

 the boys and the gala dresses of the girls, the holiday aspect 

 of old and young, might be taken as a little outbreak of 

 Hookertown enthusiasm at the marriage of Sally Bunker. 

 At the next country wedding, may I be there to see. 



YOUR REPORTER. 



NO. 18. TIMOTHY BUNKER, ESQ., ON A 

 JOURNEY. 



His VIEWS OF RAILROADS FARM IMPROVEMENTS SAND 

 BARRENS SWAMPS SORGHUM. 



MR. EDITOR. I do not know but you have thought that 

 my letters to your paper have &quot;gin out,&quot; seeing that I 

 did not write anything the past two months. But the 

 fact was, I have been off to see what was going on in 

 the world, outside of my own farm. You see there are 

 some people up here that think Hookertown is in the 

 centre of the world exactly, and they haven t the least 



