HE WASN'T HER FATHER.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3603, 29 January 1883, Page 4

HE WASN'T HER FATHER.

A young lady, says the '• Hotel World," went to the depot to meet her father. As tho train came in she saw a middle-ag - ed man who resembled her paternal relative, and she rushed into his arm, cuddled down in his bosom kissed him in the mouth, on the ear, on the check, on the chin, on the eyes, and almost everywhere, tt was not her father, but it was a nuddle-aged drummer for a tobacco house. He took a long breath and looked at some other drummers and winked, as much as to say, " Oh, I'm such a duck ! " Of course this scene could not last always, though lie wished that it could. After an unusually able bodied hug she looked up in the drummer's face and said: "You are not my pa 'f' He said probably she was light, as he had only been on that route eleven years. She asked his pardon, and he told her not to mention it; we public men should always hold ourselves in readiness to hold ! up those who are weak. She smiled a sweet and, blushing smile, and went out into tho wide world, and the drummer walked to the hotel with the other drummers, twenty-six kisses and six hugs ahead of the game. They asked him if it didn't make him feel ashamed to have made such a mistake, and lie said no, it was all right. He said,, of course, it might look queer, but these things occurred very often with him, as they would occur with every line-looking man. Besides, the girl probably enjoyed it. Then they asked him why he (lid not wear hisdiamondbrcast-pin on such trying occasions. He looked at his shirt front unci it was gone. While he had been allowing her to chew around his face she had burgled his pin. He fainted, and when they brought him to he said : Tell my family, that I died with my face to the foe ! The girl, oh' where was she \ She was at a pawn-shop with the diamond. There should be a law passed to protect this very useful class of people from the mistakes of designing girls.