A NEW PROFESSION.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3795, 13 September 1883, Page 4

A NEW PROFESSION.

A capacity for loving is an excellent thing Avhen not carried to extreme-Lies, an seems to havo been tho case with Miss Dorothea Kcogh, Avhose moderately youthful heart must be growing quite used to (he process of being shattered. Miss Kcogh fell in lovo some time ago with a gentleman whoso name is not given. He also foil in lovo Avith her ; but he cruelly deceived Miss Keogh, avho felt it necessary to proceed to extremetics, and recovered £100 worth of consolation in tho shape of damages. Miss Kcogh's wounds having thus been soothed, she recovered sufficiently to fall in love again, once more with a person unknown ; and he, too, was faithless. Ho too, therefore, as Miss Keogh felt, must be made to suffer in tho pockot for the sufferings he had caused her. He, hoAA'ovcr, shunned the trial, and, if tho newspapers arc correct iv their reports, paid £GOO. Miss Ivcogh's stock-in-trade of charms had thus brought her in £700 ; but iv spite of her experience of the faithlessness of the male sex, once more she fixed tho riddled remains of her affections on a man, and Avent through tho familiar ordeal of being jilted. By this

time, of course, the lady was well acquainted Avith her remedy; but considering how extensive her experience is, she cannot be said to have made a good thing of it. The last deceiver offered £150 to settle the caso. She refused, and the jury only gave her £10. Next time—for Miss Keogh is sure to fall in love again, and she was obviously born to be deceived—she will do well to accept her defendant's offer.