THE FINAL STRAW.
Gazing down upon them was the silvery summer moon. They sat in-a secluded corner of the pier, ravenously devouring the love-light that glinted in their eyes. The wild intensity of his devotion caused the blood to surge through his veins like the moisture in a watermain, and the fierce palpitations of his heart made the ponderous timbers of the pier vibrate like a vacuum cleaner.
As he grazed upon her fairy form- he wondered how so angelic a creature"
could survive in such a cruel and vulgar world.. Surely such_a sweet mouth was never intended 7 He glanced lovingly at her, and grasped her closer. Jyst then anothei form appeared, the figure of the little maicl-of-all-Avork who preside'd at thjj rooms where they were spending their honeymoon. ...
"Missus says," she began, "will you have liver and bacon-for supper•" Then a seagull which was passing fell stunned into the water, and the young man's watch stopped for ever and a day.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume IX, Issue 740, 27 January 1915, Page 7
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163THE FINAL STRAW. King Country Chronicle, Volume IX, Issue 740, 27 January 1915, Page 7
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