My vanity appeased then, I got dressed, with a smug satisfaction that I could now do justice to the best the brassiere manufacturers could make. "Remember the first time I wore satin?" I asked as Beth buttoned the myriad fastening in the back of the gown. She nodded, unhappily, I thought. "Dear Beth we haven't forgotten you—”

She walked ahead of me, down the makeshift aisle to the stone fireplace and turned. Her face was a perfect mask and I could only guess what was going on behind it. And then it was my turn Does any bride remember that long walk? I don't. In fact, the first thing I remembered was Scotty kissing me, and then Beth crying as she kissed my cheek. Tears of what?

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We left then on a short trip, a honeymoon if you will. Later that same night as we sat watching the sunset above the canyon, I voiced my thoughts. "I wonder how —" "How they're getting along?" Scotty finished. "Who can say, but then I wouldn't lay any odds. They're great people your friend Beth and good old George. I don't think they can miss. Not after stacking the deck like that."

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I laughed. After their initial surprise, they would probably appreciate the fact that they had the whole great house to themselves for a week.

"One thing I know" I said to Scotty. "H'mm?" He was watching the tiny figures on the edge of the canyon, silhouetted against the grey-pink of the sky. it's an unbeatable combination!"

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There came a distant cry of "let the fire fall!" and as the great burning brand plummeted from the heavens, our lips were locked.

I suppose someday, we'll have to go back

to actually see it.

A man insisted to his psychiatrist that he had swallowed a horse. No amount of persuasion could change this conviction, so in desperation the psychiatrist agreed to "operate." He planned to put the patient under for a few minutes, then, while he was still unconscious, bring a horse into the operating theatre.

When the patient came to, the doctor pointed to the horse and said, "Well, that won't worry you any more."

The patient sadly shook his head. “That's not the one I swallowed," he said. "That's a bay. My horse was white."

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