GRAMMATICAL LOVE.

Auckland Star, Volume II, Issue 459, 30 June 1871, Page 3

GRAMMATICAL LOVE.

IS DIFFERENT MOODS AND TENSES, silly Salter, she was a young teacher who taught And her Wend Billy Church was a preacher whc ThougThi*' enemies called him a screecher whc scraught. Otiis.heart, when he saw her, kept sinking, and sunk And ills eye, meeting hers, began winking, and wunk ; While she, in her turn, fell to thinking and thuilk. He hastened to woo her, and sweetly he wooed, For his leva grew until .w r ~~-.t«n it grewed, And what he was longing to do then He doed. S In secret he wanted to speak, and he spoke, m To seek with his lips what his heart long had sola. . I 30 he managed to fet the truth leak, and it loke. He asked her to ride to the church, and they rode, They so sweetly did glide, that they both thought the And gthey 'came to a place to be tied, and were tode. Then homeward, he said, let us drive, and theydrovi And as soon as they wished to arrive they arrovo ; For whatever he couldn't contrive, she controve. The kiss he was djflng to steal then' he stole. At the feet where he wanted to kneel then he knole, And he said, " I feel better that ever I fole. So they to each other kept clinging, anil clung, While Time his swift circuit was winging and wung. And this was the thing he was bringing and brung: The man Sally wanted to catch and had caught- , That she wented from others to snatch and h_ Wthe one"she now liked to scratch and she scraugb And Billy's warm love began freezing, and froze, While he took to teazing and cruelly toze Tile girl he had wished to be squeezing and squoze. " Wrctcli I" he cried, when she threatened to leave M and left, , .„ " How could you deceive me as you have deceft ? And she answered, " I promised to leave and I've left — Gentleman's Journal.