A MODERN COURTSHIP.

Kumara Times, Issue 1518, 9 August 1881, Page 2

A MODERN COURTSHIP.

" And you really love me dearly f he asked, as he coiled his arm around her wasp-like system. "And you'll always love so 1" " Always, Frederick ; ever so." " And you pledge me to sew but—" " Sir \" " You pledge me to so beautify my life that it will always be as happy as now 1" " With my last breath, Frederick." " And, darling, you will mend my soc—r " Your what, sir ?" " You will mend my social ways and draw me upward and onward to a better existence ?" "It will be the pride of my life so

to do, Frederick ; I will sacrifice all for your complete happiness." " I know ihat, sweetness. But suppose some accident should happen to—to—say the trou— V " You forgot yourself, sir. To the whatf "To the trousseau j would it defer the hour which makes you mine V " Never, Frederick. lam yours, mind and heart and naught can separate us." " But what I want to say is should my pant—" " Begone, sir. What do you mean 1" "Hearme, my life. I say if my panting bosom should grow cold in death, your love still warm it 1" "As the sun melts in the iceberg, Frederick, so would the rays of my affection thrill your heart again." " And you will care for me ever, my soul, and I for you, for though I may never have a shir—" " Enough! Leave me for ever." "But listen. Though I may never have a shirking disposition, I shall sometimes perhaps, in the struggle of life, forget the plain duty—- " And I'll remind you of it, Frederick, in tender actions, and make the duties of existence so pleasant of performance that to avoid them will be pain." And so on. That's modern courtship. Lots of abstract swash, but a manifest disinclination to contemplate such conveniences as buttons, socks, trousers and shirts.—Brooklyn Eagle.