A Brief Wedding Ceremony

The Texas oilman was getting married and was nervous about it. He told the minister that the fee would be in proportion to the brevity of the service, and that if he used a long service, he wouldn’t receive a cent. When the wedding day came, the couple stood before the minister, in the bride’s home, and the minister said to the man, “Take her?"_to the woman, “Take him?” and then closed the ceremony by pronouncing “Took"_a whole ceremony in five words. P.S. He got a $500.00 fee_or to be brief_$100 a word. (Encyclopedia of Illustrations #9944).