THE MAIDEN’S KISS
A RESOURCEFUL DAMSEL, YOUTH WHO SAW THE JOKE. Rose selling in the streets for a good cause is not without its humours, nor are sellers without their wits about them. On Friday morning (states a Wellington exchange) when the campaign had only just started and change was scarce, a young man offered a bright damsel a pound note for one of the roses, requesting change. She said she would be hard put to find it, whereupon the gallant replied; “Give me a kiss, and you may keep the note.” ‘‘All right,” said she, “but just wait a moment,” and she disappeared into a nearby confectioner’s shop. The waiting Romeo was left thinking that she must be powdering her nose in anticipation of the ordeal, but she returned with threepenny worth of milk “kisses,” one of which she solemnly proffered. He saw the joke and "ent his way with the rose and u itliout his nine teen shillings change.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 14 November 1927, Page 8
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161THE MAIDEN’S KISS Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 14 November 1927, Page 8
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