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	“Marriage in those days was looked upon as somethin€ very solemn, and it was mi~hty seldom that anybody ever heard of a merried couple trying to get separated. Now it‘s different. When a preacher married a couple, you didn‘t see any hard liquor around, but just a little light wine to liven up the wedding feast. If they were married by a justice of the peace, look out, there was plenty of wine and,“ here his voice was alxnost awe~stricken, “even whiskey too.“

	Laney interrupted at this stage of the story with, “My mother said. they used. to make up a new broom and when the couple jumped over it, they was married. Then they gave the broom to the couple to use keeping house.“ ~rohn was evidently embarrassed. “Laney,“ he said, “that was never confirmed. It was just hearsay, as far as you know, and I wouldn‘t tell things like that.

	“The first colored man I ever heard preach was old. man Johnny McDowell. He married Angeline Pennon and William Scruggs, uncle to Ollie Scruggs, who lives in Athens now. After the wedding they were all dancing arou4d theyard having a big time and enjoying the wine and feast, and old man McDowell, sittiug thêre watching them, looked real thoughtful and sad; suddenly he said: ‘They don‘t behave like they knew what‘s been done here today. Two people have been joined together for life. No rn~atter what cor~ies, or what happens, these t~ people must stand by each other, through everything, as long as they both shall live.‘ Never before had I had such thoughts at a wedding. They had always just been times for big eats, dancing,