COURTSHIP UNDER DIFFICULTIES
A fair but not faithless Parisienne has devised a novel, ingenious, and altogether satisfactory method of celebrating the ist of April. Having for some time been pestered by the attentions of an aged beau, she finally consented to permit him to visit her on the day in question. Punctual to the hour he rang, all .in his gay attire, and was ushered into the reception room, and into the presence of the lady’s husband and brother, one of whom was playing carelessly with his revolver, while the other was putting an edge on a mur-derous-looking dagger. There was an awful silence for about a minute, when the husband remarked, carelessly, “ Oh, you’re the man my wife said was to call to clean the coppers, eh ?” “ Precisely,” stammered the by no means gay Lothario, catching at this desperate hope. “ All right, step this way !” and the lover was led into the kitchen and set to work. At the end of his task, having ruined his new suit and sorely abraided his knuckles, he was summoned into the presence of Madame, who paid him three francs, promised to recommend him to her friends as a good workman, and desired the bonne to give the man a glass of something to drink.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume III, Issue 695, 22 July 1882, Page 2
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212COURTSHIP UNDER DIFFICULTIES Ashburton Guardian, Volume III, Issue 695, 22 July 1882, Page 2
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