"
"I'd like to know how it's any more wicked than to pretend a
wedding," retorted Bobby wrathfully. "Weddings are very solemn,
sacred, serious affairs. Mother always cries when she goes to one."
Betty began to laugh. She laughed so hard that she had to sit down
on the floor, and the more the two girls glared at each other, the
harder she laughed.
"I don't see what's so funny," resented Bobby, beginning to snicker,
too. "For goodness sake, don't have hysterics, Betty. Mother will
hear you and come rapping on the door in a minute."
"I just thought of something." The convulsed Betty made a heroic
effort to control her laughter and failed completely. "Oh, girls,"
she cried, wiping her eyes, "here you are bickering about the bride
and the minister, and not one of us thought of the bridegroom. We
left him out!"
Louise and Bobby rolled over on the bed and had their laugh out.
Libbie collapsed on the floor, and Esther leaned against the bureau,
laughing till she cried.
"They say the bridegroom isn't important at a wedding, but I never
heard of ignoring him altogether," gasped Bobby, and then they were
off again.
They made so much noise that Mrs. Littell tapped on the door to ask
why they were not in bed, and when Bobby told her the joke, she had
to sit down and laugh, too.
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