It Game in Time.

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 20 June 1890, Page 3

It Game in Time.

Timely death has just saved Clements IBiugham, a shoemaker of Lurgan, dfi'om the reproach which but for it .might soon, have be.en leveled -,-Ji him of having been a lag^u-d in love He was evidently a cautious man ; not ! oneof those rash aid burning Romeos " 'who heedless of everything buc the i,*' momentary whim rush into matrimony, marrying in haste and repent--ing at leisure Cements preferred the staider course of looking well around him. Not that he was deficient in the amatory quality ; by no # £neans;he was engaged. At the . itioie of his dea.ch he had been en - • • gfagefl, and to/the same girli nearly tiity yeavs. IJe took the scions step of proposing for the blushing damsels *, band wh-^n he was fifteen, and at his d ath nearly sixty five. The 1 lover s had had no quarre', .the course ' 'of '«fheh* true love ran smooth < nouinh r «tnd every Sunda/ evening of the half century was devoted to courtship and the sweet communion of souls. ..His -household affairs were looked •after by his sweetheart, and he acted as her financial adviser in bu«ine-:s matters,, both of thfm boing com forably off. The wedding garments were bought years ago, ami from that day reverently taken caro of hut never donned for any practical pur--pose. Then cama de.th to nip the tender blossom of their ove. It was a sad ending and y6t a mercifal ; for • had it not come when it did, or soon .afterwards, people might hive begun to say that the maiden was being iept waiting to lon j: ; that the swain in truth, a laggard — a very tortoise — in love. — Exchange.