A curoyman married a very old couple—the bride was 68 and the bridegroom, 70. The latter had buried two wives.
After the ceremony the bride-groom said, Well, minister, I may tell ye she was my first love."
"Yes, sir I was that," said the woman, "for when I was a lassie o' twenty he used to trot me oot along the road where your manse now stands."
After a little the bridegroom got more confidential still, and said, "Aye, sir, she was inv first love, and it wud hae been better for me if I had mi it her first. It wud hae saved me the cost o'twa burials.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.