A PROCRASTINATING PAIR.
— +- [After a courtship of forty yeara a couple in Sylvania, Ga., have just been married.] Forty years of constant courting, 0, procrastinating pair ! Forty years of gay escorting To the picnic and the fair, Forty yeara of steady swinging In the summer, on the gate; Forty years of taffy flinging In the winter, by the grate. Forty years — what joyful life stirs In the heart to think of this 1 Forty years of cream and oysters, Flavored with the willing kiss. Forty years of osculation, Passing like a summer's dream; ,-• Forty years' procrastination Make the nectar sweeter seem. Forty years of swiftly dodging > Sundry dogs behind the fence; Forty years of meals and lodging At her parents' own expense. Forty years of dilly-dallying. With their friends were wooed and wed ; Forty yeara of shiUy-shalling, Till unthatched became each head. ' Forty years 1 What time doth cover With deep wrinkles youthful bloom, Yet that bride will lie in clover With her venerable groom. : —[New York Journal, 1
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Mataura Ensign, Volume 7, Issue 359, 23 May 1884, Page 5
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169A PROCRASTINATING PAIR. Mataura Ensign, Volume 7, Issue 359, 23 May 1884, Page 5
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