A NIGHT SCENE.
— o — Jupiter ! these are lovely'nights. Nothing Mars the serenity of the scene,” exclaimed young Jones the other night as he Saturn the porch ’neath the silvery rays of the crescent moon, with his arms round the waist of his Venus. But when the old woman opened the window above them and turned a pitcher of water on their devoted heads, they thought they had encountered Neptune. She simply remarked to them as they started for tho gate: “Hero, come back! You can’t comet over my daughter in that milky way.” Jones retorted : “ Uranus off, and I'll bo hanged if I come back till I get ready ; and his girl took his arm and ho started off with a speed like the messenger Mercury, who is said to have wings on his heels, and silence reigned once more. The old woman says she will planet differently next time. .
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Dunstan Times, Issue 816, 7 December 1877, Page 3
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150A NIGHT SCENE. Dunstan Times, Issue 816, 7 December 1877, Page 3
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