People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 December 1893 — FIXING HANNAH. [ARTICLE]

FIXING HANNAH.

The Marriage Knot Which Was Tied by I Halves. The circuit-rider for a mountain district in West Virginia tvas stopping for a day or two at the place where he was to preach on Sunday and to him a mountaineer came with a buxom mountain maid and wanted to be married then and there. “Where is your license?” asked the minister. The man was surprised. “Ain’t got none,’’ he said. “We don’t have to have no license, do we? We ain't a-goin’ to sell liquor." That was all the license he knew about. The minister explained to him and he rode away ten miles to the county seat and later in the day appeared with the license. “That cost me a dollar, mister,’’ he said, ruefully. “Doyou charge anything?" “You can pay me whatever you please, but I never charge less than a dollar.” “Well, I’ve only got half a dollar, mister, and won’t get the balance till after harvest.” The minister hesitated, because he thought the mountaineer was trying to beat him. and, while he was willing to perforin the ceremony gratis, he didn’t want to cut prices All at once the mountaineer put in: “I've got it, mister,” he exclaimed, shoving the half-dollar at him. “Here’s half yer price. Now you marry Hanner to’ me. They ain’t anybody livin’ that I want but Hanner and Hanner kinder hankers fer a whole pas.de of fellers that is better lookin’ than 1 am but ain’t so well off; so if you git her fixed you needn't worry about me at all. Take your half dollar an’ go ahead on Hanner. You kin fix me after harvest an’ I’ll give you t’other half when the job’s done.”—Chicago News.